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Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by necovek »

vulcan01 wrote: post #353
necovek wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about that LG OLED C2 Evo 55" TV? Do you prefer that over LG OLED C1 or maybe LG NanoCell 80 Series or Nanocell 90 Series? Or maybe those Apple iPhone XS Max phones? Or iPhone 14 Plus or iPhone 13 Pro Max? Are these knock-offs sold by a reseller on Amazon? What I am saying is that there are (universally accepted as) good products that have silly names. Naming is done by marketing departments trying to be clever,…

Don't forget Sony, with their WH1000XM3s and Xperia 5 IIIs.

Indeed, contrast between WH and WF1000XM3/4 is even better!

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by szszrk »

Fiahil wrote: post #328
szszrk wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Worth noting they actually announced changes to subscription that basically cancels the whole thing. Subscription still exists, it's cheaper, but basic functions that we (clients) were told comes with device itself are again not tied to subscription. That move of theirs was insane, this change must be a direct reflections of clients correctly voting with their wallets.

>this change must be a direct reflections of clients correctly voting with their wallets. This sentence irks me on so many levels... "Voting with a wallet" doesn't work, doesn't exist and is never taken into account anywhere, except in the mind of the American Consumer. Not buying a Remarkable when the subscription was added means your opinion on the matter just never showed up during product decisions, planning or a…

Sorry that it irks you but we misunderstood completely.

Never meant new people buying RM. Meant those who suddenly had to decide if they should go with subscription. I'm following several forums/subreddits and to be honest it looks like most people buy on impulse without checking what this device is at all. They think it's eink iPad and can do same things.

Also I hope you don't suggest that RM decided to lower subscription price by 60% and basically bring most functions to people without subscription anyway, because it was a massive commercial success?

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by agentcoops »

zaphar wrote: post #342
boesboes wrote: post #329

Not sure why this pops up now, nothing new afaik, but I'll take this as a chance to leave a quick review ;) I bought one during the kickstarter, mostly for note taking; but also as a ereader & perhaps drawing tool. - For note taking: I prefer a simple paper notebook, as my notes are more procedural. I don't really look back often. It's fine. Just not better then paper for note taking imo. - As a e-reader, it is absol…

My review is complete opposite of yours. I also prefer the notepad style of note taking but the remarkable means that my notes are available on my phone or computer whenever I need it. It is the first note taking tablet I've used that actually feels like I'm writing on paper. It's writing and drawing latency is fantastic and the matte surface with the pen replicates the feel better than anything else I've tried. As a…

I share your review 1000x. I pretty much exclusively read PDFs, mostly OCRd but sometimes not. reMarkable is the only ereader I’ve ever found usable. I do agree that the subscription model feels tacked on, but there’s good tooling otherwise (I don’t use the cloud service myself). I highly recommend it as an ereader if you want one predominantly for research, actively taking notes on your documents at home and on-the-go while wanting to sync that with your PC note apparatus.

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by szszrk »

ad404b8a372f2b9 wrote: post #281
szszrk wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Worth noting they actually announced changes to subscription that basically cancels the whole thing. Subscription still exists, it's cheaper, but basic functions that we (clients) were told comes with device itself are again not tied to subscription. That move of theirs was insane, this change must be a direct reflections of clients correctly voting with their wallets.

If you were told it comes with the device as a client then it comes with the device. They were transparent about the switch to subscriptions, anyone who bought before subscriptions has all these features for free, anyone who bought after would have been able to read about the subscription model before buying.

That is not exactly true, but they sure made it look that way.

First we (those before-subscription buyers) lost possibility to resell the device with same functionality. Before that they eagerly let switch an email and RM account to new users.

Secondly there was no clear information if free subscription will last. If it was permanent, then why not stating it clearly or replying to tickets about that issue.

Lastly warranty was suddenly limited to one year and users with subscription. If you resigned from subscription but later changed your mind, the warranty was lost anyway. How that even got through their legal team is a mystery to me.

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by gamblor956 »

solarkraft wrote: post #286
girvo wrote: post #246

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I have the best of both worlds: my Boox Note 2 is an android tablet but is a 10” e-ink Wacom note taking device too. It’s been brilliant, albeit less polished in some corners than the RM2 of course — but the note taking experience (and reading experience) is not one of them: it’s fantastically polished and performant. And got crazy good after sales support with firmware updates too to add new features to their notes…

> it’s fantastically polished and performant Except when you want to zoom, pan, not zoom/pan while writing or want an infinite canvas (I do). Or if you don't want your page's content to completely shift away from its background (irreversibly) when rotating the device. Those are just the most prominent bugs I remember, there were more. I love the writing feel of E-Ink; the software makes it unusable. You may be thinki…

I had the same issues with my Nova 3, but many of them were fixed by the 3.2 firmware update.

There are still some bugs, but they greatly improved the pen experience.

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by pklausler »

I got an rM 2 via pre-order and it was in my dead tech drawer after only a few weeks. The writing experience was inferior to my usual fountain pen and good paper, and the PDF reader couldn't handle the one document that I need to search in daily. So, meh. Sometimes a product can be pretty close to realizing an exciting idea only to reveal that the idea wasn't all that great in the first place.

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by csdvrx »

zaphar wrote: post #342
boesboes wrote: post #329

Not sure why this pops up now, nothing new afaik, but I'll take this as a chance to leave a quick review ;) I bought one during the kickstarter, mostly for note taking; but also as a ereader & perhaps drawing tool. - For note taking: I prefer a simple paper notebook, as my notes are more procedural. I don't really look back often. It's fine. Just not better then paper for note taking imo. - As a e-reader, it is absol…

My review is complete opposite of yours. I also prefer the notepad style of note taking but the remarkable means that my notes are available on my phone or computer whenever I need it. It is the first note taking tablet I've used that actually feels like I'm writing on paper. It's writing and drawing latency is fantastic and the matte surface with the pen replicates the feel better than anything else I've tried. As a…

> My review is complete opposite of yours

Have you tried other devices? The remarkable is about bottom of the barrel, with its only good point being a low latency.

For everything else, you'd be better served by a Sony Digital Paper or a Fujitsu Quaderno, and their latency is low enough to not bother me

> I don't mind occasionally starting it back up

Something that's not stable/trustworthy can't be my notetaking device

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by sharikous »

boesboes wrote: post #329

Not sure why this pops up now, nothing new afaik, but I'll take this as a chance to leave a quick review ;) I bought one during the kickstarter, mostly for note taking; but also as a ereader & perhaps drawing tool. - For note taking: I prefer a simple paper notebook, as my notes are more procedural. I don't really look back often. It's fine. Just not better then paper for note taking imo. - As a e-reader, it is absol…

My experience is almost the opposite but I understand what you say. I use it for note-taking only and it's almost like paper in the feeling. But it hasn't got the downsides of paper as compared to digital media: weight, the difficulty to copy it, the fact that it deteriorates easily, that you cannot erase pen marks easily, etc...

This is what basically removed my need for paper in note-taking. And since in 2022 that was the last thing that I still used paper for, this changed my life and that's an understatement.

Paper went for me from a routine need to something like snail mail (contracts, the few things I really care about and want a hard copy of and very few other uses). I haven't bought a notebook since and I used to do that almost monthly before I had this device.

I feel it's just designed to be a notebook replacer and nothing more. I agree that as an e-reader it's horrible but we have Kindles and tablets for that. Not everything has to be in the same device.

What I am really missing from paper, however, is some color. Even having a way to draw in, say, red and black only, would be amazing. No need for the whole RGB spectrum, just that the feeling of drawing with different pens is something I had unfortunately to give up on.

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by gamblor956 »

Aeolun wrote: post #90
grepLeigh wrote: post #36

I loved my Remarkable 1/2, used both of them daily. For awhile, Remarkable felt like the best in class e-ink tablet. The writing experience is lovely. I ended up giving them away after 1-2 years of use though. Currently prefer Onyx Box Nova Air C for the backlight, color e-ink, and split screen capabilities. Since Onyx runs an Android variant, I can use Libby/Overdrive to check out audio/ebooks from my local library.…

> Onyx Box Nova Air C Call me old fashioned, but I just cannot take a product with a name like this seriously. Is it a knockoff sold by OODREEFT on Amazon? Does it come pre-installed with Chinese spyware? That’s the signal a name like that gives me. Same for the fact that it runs an android variant. Even if the remarkable software is sometimes suboptimal at least they took the time to build their own.

Ford Bronco Sport Big Bend.

Ford is the brand. Bronco is a model of SUV. Sport is a trim. Big Bend is a sub trim.

And Jeep has them both beat with the Jeep Grand Wagoneer Series III, which is actually smaller than the Jeep Wagoneer Series III.

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