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Post by delecti »

modeless wrote: post #100
boochiboo12 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

need more feedback on what the use case / killer apps to nail of a 'pebble watch returns' would be

Week+ battery life, truly always on, sunlight readable, much smaller size/thickness and thus more comfortable than all other smart watches. For me, the use case of a smartwatch is notifications. It lets me keep my phone on silent all the time without missing important messages or calls. Proper filtering is important so you don't get notification spam on your wrist but some notifications truly are important and checki…

Look into Amazfit watches. They're about as close as you can get to a Pebble these days. It also has a bunch of fitness stuff (GPS, steps, heart rate), but you can mostly just ignore that. Mine is just for notifications, stopwatch, and telling the time, and a charge still lasts more than 2 weeks on the original 6 year old battery (I've worn it roughly 23/7 since April 2018).

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Post by pjf »

boochiboo12 wrote: post #21

Hi yall, founder of Daylight here. Happy to answer any questions you have. Long time lurker, so this is pretty cool to finally take part :) I made this because I wanted the eye-strain free and minimalist qualities of my kindle/Eink applied to so much more of what I do on a computer. Lack of speed and ghosting felt like it made traditional Eink impossible to do most computing tasks. So we focused on making the most Pa…

Do you know - and can share - how this compares vs the Onyx Boox Tab Ultra C Pro?

I guess it might be a very competitive alternative to your product, yet it can't reach 60+fps and is sketchy in terms of security, imho.

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Post by schaefer »

boochiboo12 wrote: post #140
kiliantorpey wrote: post #80

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Some more questions about software support. It seems the device is using android. Do you have any plan to support mainline linux kernel? It could allow the possibility to use native linux distro like PostmarketOS ( https://postmarketos.org/ ) for device longevity. Your team could also benefit from delegating some softare support effort to linux kernel team.

we're open to it! we just need to better understand what resources we need internally to support this effort and for the specific mediatek/qualcomm chips we're looking at

If a standard linux image is produced, I would potentially replace my laptop with this device.

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Post by cchance »

boochiboo12 wrote: post #66
ax0ar wrote: post #63

I got super hyped first when I saw all the details. I use a Boox Page and love the device. This would be a super nice addition which could act as a fully functional tablet. But then I saw the price tag, and that it’s only 190 ppi. That killed it immediately for me. I hated the first few generations of Kindle because of the low resolution display. I think it’s unbearable in an e-ink display. And the price is a bit out…

i think your feedback is fair. if you're open to a few considerations: - with monochrome pixels (ie no RGB subpixels), resolution is not really apples to apples.. things look a lot crisper subjectively than their objective resolution spec i think a bunch of early customers have tweeted out their reactions to resolution/crispness. id encourage you to ask them for their feedback if you were still curious not claiming i…

As you should be proud its a really cool product, but the price points definitly going to lock you into a very small niche audience, it's just too expensive for me your in the price range of full blown ipad air's and technically more expensive than them, with a cool screen tech, great readability, and paper feel, but... no where near the ecosystem or use cases i'd imagine and again, more expensive.

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Post by yair99dd »

mastazi wrote: post #207
smusamashah wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wrong link?

This should be the right link https://daylightco.gorgias.help/en-US#article-493382 (points to the section where you can see videos)

https://player.vimeo.com/video/922512661

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Post by op12op12 »

geraldwhen wrote: post #259
op12op12 wrote: post #238

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They were still making major design changes just one week ago (first completely removing, then providing a front-facing camera option after previously changing the screen dimensions and device form factor). There's basically no way it ships on their timeline (currently Sept 2024), if it ships at all. They nailed the slick marketing, but have been full of nonsensical timelines and promises.

https://www.thelightphone.com/ An e ink phone already exists, in reality. I don’t know why you would hold out hope for a Kickstarter.

I own the Light Phone 2 and do like it a lot, but it's a bit too limited and some of the promises of Minimal would solve some of the pain points that Light hasn't managed to, so I definitely see the appeal.

But everything I've seen indicates that Minimal is going to be heavily delayed, if it's not an outright scam. Meanwhile, the Light Phone 2 has been around for years now, and they're planning to release updated hardware later this year.

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Post by pedalpete »

Congrats on the launch. I've owned a few Boox devices and a Kindle. I love e-ink for reading and note taking. I don't need my entire computer, but definitely useful for a few things.

If I hadn't bought a Kindle Scribe just 5 months ago, I'd have picked this up right away - if I come into some funds in the next little while, I just might anyway. Lots of opportunity for improvement over the kindle.

I'd love to see a deep-dive on your screen tech and understand how you built it. I love clever engineering. Hopefully you'll be public on some of that stuff. I'm assuming you have patents, so it's out there somewhere, but hearing from you about the process of creation I think would be really interesting.

On your website the "Who we are - A more caring computer company" doesn't link to anywhere. I think you're missing a great opportunity to tell us more about you.

Looking forward to your success!

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Post by e-_pusher »

nathcd wrote: post #10

Looks nice! I think I'd only get it if I could use it as a monitor though. Displaying more than grayscale colors would be a plus too. Still glad to see it though.

You can use an app called Duet Display on it. It works quite well (can’t remember the exact ms latency now)
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