>LCD-like color filters
It's color filters like LCD. The filter itself has nothing to do with LCD.
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I know it's inaccurate, but saying lcd-like drives home to how much darker it looks compared to a regular b/w e-ink display. It's like looking at the classic Gameboy Color screen.
I have one. I've had a Kindle scribe when that came out, and I've had various little Kindles.
Pros: >Screen is genuinely pleasant for reading, and generally nicer and more paper-like than Kindles >Feels very good to write on. It's not paper, but it's grippier than the scribe and obviously nicer than a traditional tablet >Colors are a nice treat >PDF's load fast, can be navigated fast, and are in all respects completely usable as a legitimate reading format >Pen feels good, not slippery >Micro SD card slot >Battery lasts a long time >BT, so if I wanted to be a hemingwriter weirdo I could >Sites load basically identically to android, nice to use >Response time on black and grey writing and drawing is perfect >Can write on any book without any weird software layer asking you If You would like to activate BookWrite to add Quicknotes to the Fartcloud >Battery lasts a week or two with heavy usage, even with the backlight on. Power draw when idle is basically nil
Cons: >Color is much, MUCH less saturated than they would like you to expect; a reviewer once said that they look like newsprint colors, but they're even less saturated than that >Weird chink software runs deep into its core >Default case sucks >Response time on color drawing is not great >Ghosting on colors is not great
Don't get this to read full color doujins or magazines or whatever, you're gonna hate yourself, the colors (I cannot stress this enough) are VERY unsaturated. If you like reading and sketching, especially technical sketching or notetaking, this goes hard.
gpu is always on so battery life is around 10 hours with backlight.
also need more backlight since that color eink panel is pretty dark.
Not my experience. Granted, I'm not multitasking OSRS and gooning my dick to porn while I've got active webex calls, but if you're doing hardcore android stuff I don't doubt that the wireless and the processor will eat the battery up quick.
I can say with confidence that this is the best tablet I've ever owned, but all I do is read and sketch
I have this thing, it costs the same as an iPad Air but has like 10% of the functionality. The screen is really fragile so you NEED the case, the stylus is barely attached, and the tip chips of if you look at it wrong.
Also considering its Chinkware, you can expect like 3 months of after sale support after which they move on to the next thing.
>you can expect like 3 months of after sale support after which they move on to the next thing.
Boox is still supporting devices from 2019 like the Max 3 or Note 2. Releasing new devices didn't stop that.
I wouldn’t really get why you’d need support on a device like this. On a smartphone, sure, your messaging apps and banking apps would stop working one day, and browsing the internet would become a bit unsafe. For a device like this, as long as the pdf/epub reader and the note-taking software doesn’t brick itself, you should be good, right?
>t. Boox Note Air 1 user who has been clicking ‘remind me later’ on the update prompt for god knows how long now
They've added a lot of functions to the note taking. The reader side of things also had some upgrades, the OS also saw a bunch of extra options.
If you miss a feature you can use the feedback and eventually they might implement it.
>Also considering its Chinkware, you can expect like 3 months of after sale support after which they move on to the next thing.
You dont need their support, root is available and all the software you need is already there
>The 8-core processor of 2.4 GHz clock rate together with 4 GB of RAM ensure a comfort work with any, even the most complex documents. And 64 GB of non-volatile memory togethe
I wonder why do phones in 200€ category get 128gb memory, 10 ish gb ram, better soc but then larger devices go with this poverty route
It will save power as long as you don't change the content. Refreshing itself is more power intensive than other display and in these devices even more so since they aim to minimize ghosting.
The screen is so dim you're required to use the backlight. And using the backlight makes it so it barely lasts a day.
are you fricking serious? do you even know what e ink is and what its value proposition is?
It's because of the color e-ink display, yes.
Color eink uses LCD-like color filters on top of a b/w eink panel to make colors and that shit blocks a lot of light.
>LCD-like color filters
It's color filters like LCD. The filter itself has nothing to do with LCD.
I know it's inaccurate, but saying lcd-like drives home to how much darker it looks compared to a regular b/w e-ink display. It's like looking at the classic Gameboy Color screen.
I have one. I've had a Kindle scribe when that came out, and I've had various little Kindles.
Pros:
>Screen is genuinely pleasant for reading, and generally nicer and more paper-like than Kindles
>Feels very good to write on. It's not paper, but it's grippier than the scribe and obviously nicer than a traditional tablet
>Colors are a nice treat
>PDF's load fast, can be navigated fast, and are in all respects completely usable as a legitimate reading format
>Pen feels good, not slippery
>Micro SD card slot
>Battery lasts a long time
>BT, so if I wanted to be a hemingwriter weirdo I could
>Sites load basically identically to android, nice to use
>Response time on black and grey writing and drawing is perfect
>Can write on any book without any weird software layer asking you If You would like to activate BookWrite to add Quicknotes to the Fartcloud
>Battery lasts a week or two with heavy usage, even with the backlight on. Power draw when idle is basically nil
Cons:
>Color is much, MUCH less saturated than they would like you to expect; a reviewer once said that they look like newsprint colors, but they're even less saturated than that
>Weird chink software runs deep into its core
>Default case sucks
>Response time on color drawing is not great
>Ghosting on colors is not great
Don't get this to read full color doujins or magazines or whatever, you're gonna hate yourself, the colors (I cannot stress this enough) are VERY unsaturated. If you like reading and sketching, especially technical sketching or notetaking, this goes hard.
Not my experience. Granted, I'm not multitasking OSRS and gooning my dick to porn while I've got active webex calls, but if you're doing hardcore android stuff I don't doubt that the wireless and the processor will eat the battery up quick.
I can say with confidence that this is the best tablet I've ever owned, but all I do is read and sketch
Can you read PDFs on this thing by scrolling (rather than page by page), or does it cause flashing/artifacts?
It works, and doesn't cause any artifacts, but scroll too quickly or too out of range and it takes a second or two to render the new page.
Cool, thanks. I appreciate your write-up and your outstanding self-portrait.
I like how the colors look.
Reminds me of the C64.
>non-ideal refresh rate to watch tiktoks
>android
>price
you must be 18 or older to post here
gpu is always on so battery life is around 10 hours with backlight.
also need more backlight since that color eink panel is pretty dark.
It's not that much of a problem if you use it outside or have a lot of sunlight coming in.
>buy e-ink tablet
>doesn't last longer than 10 hours
What a joke, would have been perfect otherwise.
It should be over a day, though still a far cry away from the non-BSR models.
I have this thing, it costs the same as an iPad Air but has like 10% of the functionality. The screen is really fragile so you NEED the case, the stylus is barely attached, and the tip chips of if you look at it wrong.
Also considering its Chinkware, you can expect like 3 months of after sale support after which they move on to the next thing.
Just buy an iPad.
>you can expect like 3 months of after sale support after which they move on to the next thing.
Boox is still supporting devices from 2019 like the Max 3 or Note 2. Releasing new devices didn't stop that.
I wouldn’t really get why you’d need support on a device like this. On a smartphone, sure, your messaging apps and banking apps would stop working one day, and browsing the internet would become a bit unsafe. For a device like this, as long as the pdf/epub reader and the note-taking software doesn’t brick itself, you should be good, right?
>t. Boox Note Air 1 user who has been clicking ‘remind me later’ on the update prompt for god knows how long now
They've added a lot of functions to the note taking. The reader side of things also had some upgrades, the OS also saw a bunch of extra options.
If you miss a feature you can use the feedback and eventually they might implement it.
>but has like 10% of the functionality
What's the state of the art with sideloading applications on iPads?
>Also considering its Chinkware, you can expect like 3 months of after sale support after which they move on to the next thing.
You dont need their support, root is available and all the software you need is already there
>The 8-core processor of 2.4 GHz clock rate together with 4 GB of RAM ensure a comfort work with any, even the most complex documents. And 64 GB of non-volatile memory togethe
I wonder why do phones in 200€ category get 128gb memory, 10 ish gb ram, better soc but then larger devices go with this poverty route
>android tablet
there's the catch.
your doodles end up on chinese servers and they laugh at them
just draw their chinese micro penices to overlaugh them
>500 bucks
>10 hour battery
There's your catch
bros i thought eink was supposed to save power
It will save power as long as you don't change the content. Refreshing itself is more power intensive than other display and in these devices even more so since they aim to minimize ghosting.
500 bucks is a pretty decent deal. Compare it to what a 10" b&w reader costs.
I had expected them to cost 1k upward.
>Buy eInk tablet
>Entire screen flashes every time you touch something
You can adjust that in the settings. For a lot of applications you can just set it to infinite.