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The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by jay-anderson »

This looks good and feels like the larger screen e ink devices are getting better. Unfortunately I haven't found one which ticks the boxes I want (mostly to use for sheet music):

- Hands free page turning (a bluetooth foot pedal would be idea) - Large size (at least as large as a4 paper). - Split screen page turn (That is do a page turn in two steps: (1) show the top of the next screen and the bottom of the current (2) show all of the next page) - Cross platform file transfer (I use linux and mac and would like to be able to transfer files from both) - No cloud services for document storage (I want to keep everything locally)

This device is a bit smaller than I want. The Sony dpt-rp1 is close, but it doesn't support bluetooth foot pedals or cross platform file transfer (I'm not sure why they're crippling their devices).

Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by otoburb »

TuringTest wrote: post #62
moon4u wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is the response time really that fast? On my e-reader, it takes solid 1 second in the best case (and sometimes more than 3s worst) to switch a page. This device looks really fast. But maybe it's just updating small region and that's why it's so fast?

The response time is optimized for writing, not reading. This device is better treated as a whiteboard than an ebook. Switching pages can still take a few seconds (the display is lightning fast, but the processor for generating the page is not).

>>Switching pages can still take a few seconds (the display is lightning fast, but the processor for generating the page is not).*

Can take up to a few seconds, but really depends on what the device is rendering. For most arXiv papers and light graphics (e.g. clean charts) the page turns have been very tolerable.

Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by djrogers »

devwinportable wrote: post #14
tlrobinson wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> requires charging thru the ipad's port ...wtf It comes with an adapter so you can charge it with same Lightning charger you use to charge the iPad itself. I almost accidentally threw it out with the packaging. They should have incorporated into the cap so you'd always have it with you. Also it's kind of silly they didn't make that end (where an eraser usually is) function as an eraser.

but why not just put a female-end of lightning port? (not on top but somewhere near middle - I agree with your eraser function) having a cap to protect its manliness is so... stupid

> why not just put a female-end of lightning port

Because when I'm out and about, I don't want to stop somewhere to charge my pencil. This way, you plug it in to the iPad, and in less than a minute you can work with it for any hour or more - no need to hunt for a wall plug or bring along a cable.

Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by grahamburger »

m-p-3 wrote: post #123
jsiepkes wrote: post #109

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Because its meant as an pen and paper replacement. Nothing more, nothing less. Besides why would you want to listen to MP3s on such a device? Your smartphone with bluetooth and microphone jack is way better equiped for such a thing.

I still wish it was slightly more than that. If I could read my emails on that thing instead of my violet screen, I'd consider it for work.

I have one. You kind of could, you can import PDFs to it. I've considered setting up some kind of automated flow to do that mainly for emails that turn in to larger projects or meetings for easy note-taking.

That said, the only real feature I wish that the device had is a backlight. Other than that it's pretty perfect as it is - just a notebook replacement, nothing more or less.

Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by polskibus »

Has anyone held it in their hands? How does the screen compare to a 300dpi pearl eink like aura one or Oasis? I love my Kobo aura one, but I think one of the reasons it is so great is the 300dpi screen.

Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by tootie »

dalbasal wrote: post #16

Nice. I'd like to see e-ink continue to develop. What I want is an e-ink laptop with simple but good word processing, coding, text-mostly browsing, emails and such. I like my reader. It doesn't feel like "device" and I'm much more relaxed using it. Im on my third one and all three were on airplane mode since the day I bought them. Reading on tablet/phone triggers my hyperactive "device mode". Checking emails, hn, tin…

I think a huge untapped market is digital signage. For anyone who needs to display a load of text and have it be perfectly legible in bright light, giant e-ink screens would be perfect. Large-scale LEDs that look good in bright lights cost a fortune and use a ton of power.

Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by wvenable »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #150
m-p-3 wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still wish it was slightly more than that. If I could read my emails on that thing instead of my violet screen, I'd consider it for work.

No . I own one. I've had mine since last November. I love it. I love it in large part because when I'm working on it, I -can't- read email, browse HN, read blogs, check on a server. The only thing I can do is put thoughts to words and diagrams. What you want is a tablet, maybe something from Amazon. The ReMarkable is intended for a different audience, people who remember what it's like to be undistracted and want tha…

For $600 it better do more than that. If I wanted something to write on that does nothing else I'd just use a pad of actual paper. And that's the real competition for a device like this -- paper.

I think it would need to come down in price significantly for it to be just what you want it to be.

Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by jaclaz »

djrogers wrote: post #180
jaclaz wrote: post #68

As a side-side note, and just for the record, in 1993 existed (I had one) the Compaq Concerto, using the Windows for Pen Computing (a spin-off of Windows 3.1): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Concerto My model was a 486Sx 33 Mhz with a whopping 8 MB Ram (default was 4 MB) I could have written more or less the same review at the time, nice (doing what at the time was more like "magic" or "science fiction" than an…

> At least it needed not a stupid proprietary cloud, As has been pointed out many times here, this does not require a 'stupid proprietary cloud' either.

>As has been pointed out many times here, this does not require a 'stupid proprietary cloud' either.

Let me rephrase "needed not" with "came not with a default", and allow me to doubt that a "common user" (or if you prefer "non-hacker" will be able to change the settings/whatever that this (otherwise nice) E-Ink device ships with.

Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by chx »

majjam wrote: post #56
chx wrote: post #24

I had a CrossPad twenty years ago. And it feels like this device has improved extremely little from it. The CrossPad was recording what you wrote in a notepad placed on top of it, it had a little radio in the pen, and later you could download what you did, if I remember, in a vector format so it was better than a scanner. The ReMarkable on the other hand, records what you are writing on a screen and later you can dow…

I was hoping the ReMarkable would be cheaper than the CrossPad, but this ( https://web.archive.org/web/19991201033034/http://cfonews.co... ) indicates it was $399 at launch which equates to $572 in today's money ( http://stats.areppim.com/calc/calc_usdlrxdeflator.php ) which is still cheaper than the ReMarkable's $600 launch price.

Just a small note: that's the CrossPad XP but the original was also $399. https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/2731.wss
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