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Huawei MatePad Paper – eInk Tablet

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Post by spacehunt »

thih9 wrote: post #238
spacehunt wrote: post #123

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China refuses to condemn Russia and is towing their "peacekeeping" "denazification" line.

I have seen other statements. > Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi deplored the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, calling it a “war” and saying that he is “extremely concerned” about the harm to civilians, his office said in a statement following a call with his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba. Source: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/bloomberg/eu-approves-list-to-c...

Unfortunately I think it's a mistranslation.

None of the Chinese language media reports him calling it a "war", but instead only a "conflict".

Official source disclosing the same call: http://www.gov.cn/guowuyuan/2022-03/01/content_5676356.htm

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Post by alexgao »

yumraj wrote: post #204
youhavetosayit wrote: post #130

Remarkable 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..

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Post by alexgao »

xibalba wrote: post #258
curiousgal wrote: post #244

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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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Where is there genocide? Have you ever been to China, or do you just watch the propaganda of the media hostile to China?

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Post by starfallg »

caslon wrote: post #271
starfallg wrote: post #269

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Short term thinking at its worse. China isn't going to stop at its borders. Their tech companies not only answer to their government, they are just as greedy western big tech, if not more. Your info is going to be sold to the highest bidder, plus shared with the Chinese government.

"You're thinking short-term and you're bad for it. Here's a bunch of unfounded speculation, and I'm going to throw in "plus shared with the government," despite your information already being shared with the United States government, which isn't at risk of collapsing any time soon, and will never be part of China, nullifying the risk of your data being taken by the Chinese government."

That's not the point I was making.

Why do you think the Chinese tech companies are any better than western ones with your data? They have the same pressures of producing profit.

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Post by Zircom »

TheFreim wrote: post #234
Zircom wrote: post #195

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Do yourself a favor and order a stylus with a dedicated eraser button while you're waiting, I personally can't stand having to click up top to change to erasing mode and then go back to where I was to erase stuff, and their touch gesture activated erasing is kind of janky and inconsistent. Other than that though I'm pretty satisfied with it.

> their touch gesture activated erasing is kind of janky and inconsistent Could you expand upon what you mean by janky? My supernote is arriving soon and in my hours I spent reading and watching reviews the gesture erasing was consistently praised.

It just doesn't consistently work and I end up with several circles drawn around what I'm trying to erase that I end up having to erase as well. There's apparently some magic angle/distance to hold your fingers apart at and if you deviate even a small amount it doesn't pick it up. Having any part of your other hand/other fingers on the screen as well will cause it to not work either. Someone on the subreddit told me that what has been working for them is to hold their 2 fingers vertical along the left side of the screen and that's been working for me better than what I was doing, but it still often doesn't pick it up. I just today finally got my Lany EMR stylus in and am enjoying the dedicated erase button much more.

You may be looking at reviews for the linux version maybe? The gesture erase has only been on the android version since the latest update and most everyone I've spoken to in the supernote subreddit about it agrees it's not super great at the moment.

Other than that issue I'm a big fan, let me know if you have any other questions, happy to share my experience.

edit - one suggestion, the battery lasts much longer with wifi off, so I would suggest leaving it off and turning it on briefly whenever you want to sync notes, if you even care to do that, and check for updates every once in a while.

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Post by system2 »

azinman2 wrote: post #286
system2 wrote: post #280

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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

Yes, but it is not $500 expensive. LCD wasn't cheap but got 10 times cheaper in 15 years. eInk is around more than that yet still super expensive.

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Post by robinsoh »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #300
robinsoh wrote: post #290

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> 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…

Would be nice if you also had an argument with your statement and not just mockery, to prove me wrong.

> Would be nice if you also had an argument with your statement and not just mockery, to prove me wrong.

So you make a massive unsubstantiated claim and I have to prove you wrong? I see the way your logic works.

Lets see.

You've made the claim that "E-ink owns the parents, the fabs and the secret sauce to profitably producing quality e-ink film in good yelds.".

So let me ask a simple question. Since you say E-ink owns all the fabs, can you show me the location of even one E-ink fab?

Here's a hint for the answer. E-Ink is a fabless company. That may confuse you so lets make it clearer. It means they don't have ANY fabs. In fact, I don't even know of even one electrophoretic material producer who has a fab.

Would you like to try again and provide a more accurate statement that reflects your level of ACTUAL knowledge of the display industry?

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Post by lhl »

DenisM wrote: post #276
lhl wrote: post #39

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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?

Almost all of them use the same E Ink displays and have the same resolution/density. The newest ones use the Carta 1200 panel which improves response/updates, not resolution. Here's a reasonable chart of pixel density: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Ink#Comparison_of_E_Ink_disp...

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Post by rjzzleep »

rchaud wrote: post #161
rjzzleep wrote: post #151

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I have a hisense eink pocket reader(5.84") and it has an eink refresh button. It's hisense's degoogled android(only support chinese and english and some menus have weird grammar). But what's interesting is that if you hold the extra button it launches into a notes app which has dictation and unlike googles own dictation it does a pretty good job at capturing both chinese and english without needing to switch. I didn'…

Does this actually fit in your pocket? Front or back? I have a Kobo Mini with a 5" screen that's perfectly pocketable, but it's on its last legs, and the 2012-era e-ink lag is noticeable. I have looked at modern options but they're all 6" minimum with a lot of bezel, which means they won't fit.

It’s fits well in mine and I’m not a big guy. Also I really like how well and fast it renders normal android apps.

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Post by pantulis »

bitL wrote: post #274
pantulis wrote: post #190

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Is it the Boox Max Lumi 2? I'm considering getting one, any observations?

I use it only for reading PDFs, annotating them, writing notes and reading newspapers - for that it's a pretty good device. There might be some warts in a bit non-standard Android interface and also MS Office doesn't work without license (13" is too large for free versions), but overall I am happy.

Well my use case would basically be reading PDFs and sheet music, not really considering it to take notes. For that it's a bit expensive.
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