My shortlist right now is a Samsung Galaxy S3 with an additional Staedtler Noris Digital Pencil. Gonna go check some out today I think. I’d love to upgrade my iPad, but the iPad pencil gets pretty horrible reviews. It seems like in this day and age it should be so simple to find what I’m looking for, but the more I look the more complicated it seems. Thanks to everyone for the input on input devices 
Dan