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ReMarkable Paper Tablet

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Re: ReMarkable Paper Tablet

#21

Post by hucker »

pttrsmrt wrote: post #16

I was sold until this line: "Your thoughts, whether they’re words or sketches, are instantly synced to reMarkable’s cloud service" Imagine for a company only five years back to literally say that your thoughts are sent to their server. I welcome any product that understand we need less distractions and less help from so-called AI, but there are many reasons to be cautious about this one (preorder, latency claim and l…

Based on my knowledge of the team, I'm almost certain you can opt out of syncing. I'm also going to guess it's rootable.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Tablet

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Post by aamederen »

For me, the keypoint is the haptic feeling. As a mechanical keyboard enthusiast, for me the physical "feeling" of the things I use in daily life is a very important and underrated aspect.

Most of the time I find myself switching between my pencil/notebook and google docs. The feel of the pencil on the notebook, the friction, the feeling of pressing on the notebook is a matter of satisfaction which we cannot find on tablets. On the other hand, the flexibility of digital stuff is a must.

With iPhone 7, I am satisfied with the haptic feeling of pressing a button. A similar achievement on a surface would be revolutionary.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Tablet

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Post by sandsmark »

pttrsmrt wrote: post #16

I was sold until this line: "Your thoughts, whether they’re words or sketches, are instantly synced to reMarkable’s cloud service" Imagine for a company only five years back to literally say that your thoughts are sent to their server. I welcome any product that understand we need less distractions and less help from so-called AI, but there are many reasons to be cautious about this one (preorder, latency claim and l…

the reason we're a bit scant on technical details so far is partly because we have spent most of our technical resources on actually making the device. but we'll try to get out a more technical blog post soon.

another reason is that we can't share too much about what we're working on in case some journalist picks up some wording as promising some feature we can't deliver on. a lot of the stuff we're working on is stuff we don't know if we can deliver in time, in a polished enough form. so what we're talking about is what we have already solved, and which we believe is going to sell the device best to the people we target.

lastly, Certain Companies that have tried to do this for years are really, really interested in how we have solved the latency problem, and we don't want to help them.

EDIT:

> Their CTO is/was even a developer at KDE

is, thank you very much (latest commit was to kio on saturday). even if I don't have as much time for KDE stuff as I used to for obvious reasons.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Tablet

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Post by rtpg »

For those who really want a PDF annotator, Sony sells a large mostly-equivalent of this, there's the Sony DPT-S1

https://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/product-DPTS1/?PID=I:digitalpa...

This is a pro device, costs almost $1000. I don't own one but a friend does... it's very magical looking, and feels nice for the 2 minutes I used it.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Tablet

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Post by CoolGuySteve »

linuxkerneldev wrote: post #7

For those feeling the impulse to empty their wallets, I urge caution. I just got done being burned by the kickstarter for the goodreader equivalent. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/13-3-inch-android-e-reade... I see no evidence that the team behind this "remarkable" product has ever completed anything of this scale. Some of the claims are very suspicious. https://liliputing.com/2016/11/remarkable-10-3-inch-writing…

At 55ms I'd much rather have a phone or netbook with this display. So I'll believe it when I see it.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Tablet

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Post by NoGravitas »

I really like the idea. But I don't much care for it syncing to the vendor's cloud server. If it would sync in open file formats to my NextCloud instance, then that's attractive.

Also, there's definitely a balance to be struck between lack of distraction and lack of features. It would be a waste for this not to have an epub reader, for example. But while I'd really appreciate having email on it, that's starting to get into distraction territory.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Tablet

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Post by gizzlon »

pttrsmrt wrote: post #16

I was sold until this line: "Your thoughts, whether they’re words or sketches, are instantly synced to reMarkable’s cloud service" Imagine for a company only five years back to literally say that your thoughts are sent to their server. I welcome any product that understand we need less distractions and less help from so-called AI, but there are many reasons to be cautious about this one (preorder, latency claim and l…

I'm one of the guys working on this. We make money on the product, storing this stuff actually costs us.. So we have no intentions of syncing more than you would want to :)

There's some tech specs on the site (getremarkable.com)

Re: ReMarkable Paper Tablet

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Post by wheelerwj »

i don't understand why its a steal at almost $400. my tablet does all of this better. except for drawing, which is significantly not as awesome.

i also don't know how adding a fourth device simplifies life at all.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Tablet

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Post by sandsmark »

heinrichf wrote: post #9

This is very reminiscent of the Noteslate vaporware: http://www.noteslate.com/

except we waited until we had actual hardware prototypes before going public, from an ODM we've been working on for a while. and (some of our team) are on HN, which gives us much more street cred.

and you can find pictures of us. one of the reasons I've been skeptical about the noteslate is because I couldn't really find out who was making it.

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