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Do you still have to replace the pencil tips often and are they still expensive?
Although $12 ($17 inc shipping to US) for 8 tips doesn't seem too expensive to me.
Just finished watching a review: - no USB disk mode to download your notes - 8 GB storage (of which about 6 are available) - any Linux support seems to be nebulous/unofficial, especially because of point 1 - no search feature - no backlight - no landscape mode Personally I've cancelled my pre-order, not worth the 450 GBP in my opinion.
The website is very unclear about the I/O options of the device, which I don't get at all, that's clearly one of the most important things about it; I'm not writing stuff down for the bin after all.
How do I get stuff off it? Is OCR done on the device? What formats does it support? etc. etc.
It says it has USB-C "for file transfers", but then also "Sync notes and documents via Wi-Fi only", wayyyy down below it says "PDF and ePUB", but obviously when I'm taking notes I'm not generally interested in a PDF, because that works with _zero_ of my workflows.
Their opener is strong; it's an obviously interesting product. Yet everything else is unspecific fluff that wastes my time and only irks me by being vague or silent about core functional aspects of the product.
Would anyone here be interested in a eink phone running something like WebOS optimized for eink displays? I really feel WebOS was too early and PWAs make the barrier to entry much lower for a WebOS-like device.
I'm happy with my iPad. I can read books, watch videos or take notes all in one, plus I get to surf the open web on a super fast browser on top hardware that doesn't try to mimic the dead-tree. Not sure what the use-case for a sluggish 'paper-like' interface would ever be? I know some folks will jump to suggest less eyestrain but neither paper books nor e-ink help with that. Since eyestrain stems from overworked eyes…
But no mention and video evidence of the pen input lag and precision, which is what's supposed to set this apart from other eink display solutions. The 1 has some lag, just enough to still be a nuisance: did the 2 fix that?
I have the 2 right here and it's better than the first. There's still a perceptible lag (that is, it isn't imperceptible) but it's better than anything else out there including other eink devices (I also have a Boox here that I compared it to, and the Sony DPT before it).
I'm hoping to wait for reviews for this. I've been watching this for months. While waiting I've been thinking about how I'm going to use a combination of RSS reads, web archiving tools, pandoc, and some custom daemons on the device to setup syncing of hackernews + articals + news sites to the device to read during my commute (assuming we still have commutes in 4 months from now). Very excited to see a polished device…
Looks like the embargo just lifted today. reMarkable just sent out an email with links to reviews: https://mailchi.mp/remarkable.com/first-remarkable-2-reviews...
I have no desire for any of the built in cloud features or even doing much writing through the tablet. I however have many use cases for the hacking and modding abilities of the software that can run on this device.
I'm pretty sure major news outlets won't be sshing into the device and installing custom daemon services and measuring the impact they have on battery life.
Would anyone here be interested in a eink phone running something like WebOS optimized for eink displays? I really feel WebOS was too early and PWAs make the barrier to entry much lower for a WebOS-like device.
E-ink has become cheaper and more responsive since we gave it a shot, glad to see companies like Mudita trying to bring something like this to life. https://mudita.com/
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Do you use the text OCR feature? Is that component opensource?
Note they mean open as in "it runs a random old Linux kernel and you can have the root password", not as in "open source". Nothing whasoever from their software is actually open source, and nothing indicates they may not decide to simply close down the platform in the future (e.g. for "security" reasons)
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I have the 2 right here and it's better than the first. There's still a perceptible lag (that is, it isn't imperceptible) but it's better than anything else out there including other eink devices (I also have a Boox here that I compared it to, and the Sony DPT before it).
Just to confirm, when you say, "better than anything else out there," that includes the latest generation of iPad Pro with Apple Pencil 2, correct?
