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Same here. Tablet screens hurt my brain, and I would love a product like this for annotating papers / articles / textbooks. There's reMarkable coming out later
by noam87 10y ago
Same here. Tablet screens hurt my brain, and I would love a product like this for annotating papers / articles / textbooks. There's reMarkable coming out later this year, targeted for a more general audience (https://getremarkable.com/ https://getremarkable.com/) -- hopefully it lives up to the promise, or at least gets more people excited about such a product.
But I'm honestly kind of amazed that something like this isn't already widely available at a reasonable price... I don't feel like my needs are that atypical and it's just the dream product to me.
- fumar 10y agoI have been keeping tabs on reMarkable, it almost addresses all of my needs. I wish it could run OneNote as that is my go-to note taking software. My biggest concern with niche e-ink products is that the parent company will not be around long enough to maintain its software services. I am highly tempted to preorder reMarkable solely on the premise of supporting the startup.
- noam87 10y agoYeah, I hope it won't rely solely on its own cloud service for backup for those reasons. I like my hardware products to remain functional even if the company goes under.
- fencepost 10y agoThe Boox units mentioned elsewhere in this thread may be better since they run Android, but I'd look at the linked Mobileread discussion and possibly wait until the next revision later this year. Edit: Curse you autocorrect!
- fumar 10y agoI don't see any references to Boox or mobileread in this thread. What revisions are being introduced?
- fencepost 10y agoAh, I'm sorry, you are correct. In the month-old discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13865108 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13865108 someone listed off the devices in this category (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13865777 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13865777), including two Onyx Boox units (13.3 & 9.7 inches). The Onyx Boox Max Carta should be available after the Hong Kong Electronics Fair - sounds like the same device but with a higher resolution screen. The Mobileread discussion linked from there is >60 pages of discussion including staff from the company, and there's discussion of a Boox Max 2 coming out later this year that will have the higher-resolution screen, touch instead of pen, an updated (but still slow) processor, possibly a bump in Android version (still ancient, jumping from 4.0.4 to 4.4 perhaps?). Doing a little digging, the processor change may not be a processing power increase but a power consumption decrease (i.MX6 to i.MX7). Note that all of this is unofficial and that it doesn't seem like the details have been finalized. I'll also note that (without reading the whole 60+ pages) I saw at least one person who'd also installed apps from the Google Play store and found that troublesome, particularly when updating the firmware in the device. Edit: after a bit more reading on Mobileread there might also be a 10.3" version of the Boox ("Boox Note") towards the end of the year; they're taking prototypes to the Hong Kong fair to gauge interest but would likely not do mass production until October (https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=285006 https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=285006)
- xtiansimon 9y agoYou forgot to mention the "killer app" for the Onyx Boox Max Carta -- to act as a second monitor! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZTGULb4w54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZTGULb4w54 When I read this post about the Sony tablet, I'm thinking the product space is getting interesting--FINALLY!!
- j_s 10y agoA pair of discussions about reMarkable last month / 4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13865108 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13865108 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13113819 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13113819