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If I had to choose between China and Big Tech spying on me (and I technically do) I would pick China any and every time honestly.
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I've been using a Onyx Boox Note 3 for a couple years now (I previously had a Remarkable 1 but it didn't stick for me) - it has Android 10 (w/ Google Play support) and even an SDK for responsive writing for 3rd party apps. It's been great for taking notes, and adequate for reading books and papers (although even a single color for highlighting would be a huge improvement). Note, that Onyx is notorious for violating t…
Which one has the best DPI?
Sony
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thinking the same thing. how damaging to the brand that once I hear Huawei, I think of spyware.
Spyware and cheap knockoffs. Also rampant IP theft [0]. As they say, chabuduo! [1] [0] https://blogs.cisco.com/news/huawei-and-ciscos-source-code-c... [1] https://mothership.sg/2018/05/what-is-chabuduo/
HN cannot seem to decide whether to hate or love IP protection.
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thinking the same thing. how damaging to the brand that once I hear Huawei, I think of spyware.
are there concrete cases you're thinking about?
It's china. They have been caught putting chips in servers to infiltrate US companies.
It's everywhere. The CCP takes what the CCP wants. If you work for one of these companies like Huawei, or Boox or whatever, when the Chinese government asks you to do something nefarious, you comply because you want to keep existing. They ain't asking.
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#285Remarkable 2 is better, because of the features it doesn't have. The best feature of Remarkable 2 is how quiet it is, it doesn't do anything except for Book reading and note taking. No notifications, no messaging, no email, quiet tech.
> Remarkable 2 is better, because of the features it doesn't have. Like syncing local notes using common cloud services? Technically, the feature's there, but it's locked behind a $100 per year "service". Rant aside, I have an iPad mini where I turned all notifications off. Just as good as if it didn't have those features when I don't care about them - but if I need them they're right there.
You can install syncthing on it. Problem solved.
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#286RRP €499 (around $558) according to https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/28/22954498/huawei-matepad-p...
I don't believe the material cost is even $50. It is niche and not as demanded as tablets. It is such a shame these things are not mainstream because of the price.
eInk displays aren’t cheap, then add in the pencil layer, cpu, etc
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#287Remarkable 2 is better, because of the features it doesn't have. The best feature of Remarkable 2 is how quiet it is, it doesn't do anything except for Book reading and note taking. No notifications, no messaging, no email, quiet tech.
> No notifications, no messaging, no email, quiet tech. Also, no spyware..
When a product originates from China, it must be full of spyware. Let's don't even question whether that's true or even reasonable. Then imagine one day, China's scientists invented a new semiconductor, a new material to make chip, or a new technological product that's order of magnitude better than everything out there.
My question: are you going to avoid it like the plague; don't buy anything made of it, which may be in a lot of the things you touch. Btw, that's not very far-fetched, judging from the number of breakthrough research coming out of that country.
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#289Will it have a browser? It would be great for reading HN, coding, writing if I could use it with a browser. I do all these in the browser and I only need black and white and no fancy tools. So even if the browser is much slower than on a desktop, it would still be great.
try einkbro
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Are there no other companies apart from e-ink?
There is no "other company". E-ink owns the parents, the fabs and the secret sauce to profitably producing quality e-ink film in good yelds. Even without the parents, building fabs and the film profitably without their secret sauce would be impossible. It's kind of like the early days of OLED when Samsung was the only one who could fab the tech profitably.
> E-ink owns the parents, the fabs and the secret sauce to profitably producing quality e-ink film in good yelds.
fabs? Jesus H Christ. Based on just that one sentence, I can guarantee you have 0 experience and 0 direct knowledge of the display industry. Your statement is the equivalent to saying "Microsoft owns the parents (sp), the fabs and the secret sauce to profitably producing quality operating systems in good yelds (sp).