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by DenisM 3006 days ago
There you go

https://remarkable.com

2 comments

This looks quite promising. However, I'm burned a few too many times buying and trying to use tablets for drawing.

I had the iliad, a Dutch tablet in the very early days of e-paper. Slow, unworkable latency in drawing, buggy software, low support for digital book formats. I tried a few other e-paper devices since then, but they didn't improve on a lot.

The Microsoft Surface 2 seriously improved on this space. But it was still not feeling well - still too much lag. And then there is the huge problem that Windows is not suitable for tablets - it's a nightmare to work with compared to Android.

Surface 3 got it right enough, the feel is good enough to do some serious drawing on it. Microsoft OneNote is pretty much ideal for many usecases but has its cases where it becomes unbearingly slow. I have not yet tried the Surface 4 or the iPad Pro.

The ideal of an android device with a OneNote version which supports plugins and an app-store on a color latencyless e-paper display is still a decade away it seems.

Thanks! 226dpi and a bit pricey though, so I'll keep an eye for next gens. 300dpi is the minimum my eyes find acceptable from a closer distance.
Note that it's black and white, you may have different perception with this screen compared to LCDs.
I used to have 300dpi Kindle Voyage so I know where my threshold with e-ink lies. 220dpi is on my 4k monitor, which is fine from 3ft/1m but not closer.