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Re: ReMarkable Paper Tablet

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Post by anexprogrammer »

rtpg wrote: post #25

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.

Sad thing is that Sony was meant to be going global in '13. It's probably well overdue a v2 by now!

Think they're down to about $700 now. Any on ebay and Amazon are from Japan with no English!!

Looked at these a few times hoping they were going on wider release. With Sony out of eBooks, and selling off Vaio, doesn't look promising for a replacement.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Tablet

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Post by fit2rule »

gizzlon wrote: post #34
sparkie wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can we turn off the sync to cloud?

Good point, we'll keep it in mind

Why is this even a question, seriously? The cloud shouldn't be the first option - I'm immediately turned off by this product if that is how its going to work.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Tablet

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Post by fest »

Few questions to the team:

1) Is the screen latency numbers applicable to full-page updates also? I.e. scrolling a page of text.

2) How decent is the performance when dealing with large PDFs?

3) Is the digitizer pressure sensitive? Does it only work with a stylus? If not, how good is palm rejection?

Re: ReMarkable Paper Tablet

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Post by protomyth »

gizzlon wrote: post #34
sparkie wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can we turn off the sync to cloud?

Good point, we'll keep it in mind

For some of us, not being able to turn off sync makes it a no buy (or for work a cannot buy). I hope it will not be required because this device looks interesting.

Good luck

Re: ReMarkable Paper Tablet

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Post by d3ckard »

This is simply awesome! For a long time I have waited for tablets to actually incorporate the most natural way for making notes and generally working with paper. Not going to preorder (waiting 8 months is kind of too long for me), but probably going to buy just after it comes out.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Tablet

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Post by sandsmark »

pttrsmrt wrote: post #38
sandsmark wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 stu…

Great to hear from you guys directly! I guess we (i.e techie internet folks, you included) have been served so many crowd funded promises that it's difficult to believe things that are too good to be true. Although I'm personally a big advocate of keeping stuff open, I do understand that a small company has to have some secrets for themselves. Now I see you're also a developer at KDE which certainly gives credibility…

> I guess we (i.e techie internet folks, you included) have been served so many crowd funded promises that it's difficult to believe things that are too good to be true.

well, I personally have basically stopped contributing to crowdfunding campaigns, I've been burnt a lot. and this is also why we haven't gone public earlier, even when we've been working on this for years.

> I truly understand and support that you don't promise stuff that aren't really made yet, and I really hope the privacy concerns will be taken as serious as they are.

well, privacy is very important to me personally (I even have a couple of commits in owncloud), and we've been discussing several ways to protect the privacy. but until we know which way we do it we can't promise anything, even just speculating will lead to people assuming and get angry if we go for something else.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Tablet

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Post by kod »

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…

the same article you linked states that sofware is a major factor in lag, because a different app has ony a 2 frame latency.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Tablet

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Post by scottlocklin »

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…

They're just reusing the hardware module Sony uses on its Digital Paper DPTS1 thingee and putting Android on it. Assuming it's a legit project.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Tablet

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Post by thirdsun »

wheelerwj wrote: post #29

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.

I think it's a very compelling product if it delivers what it advertises. Unless you're talking about a kindle your tablet most certainly isn't better when it comes to reading which seems to be a significant portion of the product's features - as much as I like my iPad, reading on such a display for long periods of time is a subpar experience.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Tablet

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Post by titanix2 »

awalGarg wrote: post #37

Hi. I am a paper guy too. Until this thing hits the market wide, gets lots of positive reviews and has its costs reduced, does anyone have tips for managing lots of real paper? I feel like some organization tricks could help ease dealing with paper problems. I use paper to sketch out thoughts and draw diagrams, and I don't want unlimited papers. 5 pages a day is enough for me. I wish I could say I read books - I don'…

For a long time I tried to come up with systems for paper. Now I switched to a simpler model: my (only) clipboard I used for the project I focus one, eg. writing my master thesis. I also bought two thin soft binders. The green one is for research and ideas highly related to my current research or projects. I put some metadata on some of the sheet themselves or on small papers to remind quickly what a sheet is about. The red one is for other all other ideas. Any sheet not is a binder will likely roam on one of my desks and will be forgotten. This is actually a feature, like survival of the fittest applied to desk environment.
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