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IMHO, the huuuuuuuge Achilles' heel of the ReMarkable is no Bluetooth, which means no Bluetooth keyboards. I want a pen about 10% of the time, for doodles. The
by myself248 5y ago
IMHO, the huuuuuuuge Achilles' heel of the ReMarkable is no Bluetooth, which means no Bluetooth keyboards.
I want a pen about 10% of the time, for doodles. The rest of the time, I want a keyboard and mouse, or at the very least a keyboard and touchpad, and an e-ink tablet is just a low-power way to achieve that. ReMarkable is sort of famously hackable, but the Bluetooth chip is physically not wired.
PineNote has a sane pathway to being a low-power tablet with both Wacom and captouch input, and proper keyboard support. The only way to attach a keyboard to the RM2 is with a USB OTG dongle and external power pack, which is just bonkers.
I'm keenly aware that PineNote is a few steps beyond a figment of a designer's imagination, but still far far far from a finished product; they only just got the screen working to display a static image. It's not going to do everything the ReMarkable does for a long time yet.
But it's already as useful _to me_ as my RM2 is _to me_. And unlike the RM2, it's going to get better over time. I'm absolutely getting one.