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by teruakohatu 1934 days ago
This is a very temping device. How does it compare to the remarkable2 in terms of syncing and connectivity?

The only thing holding me back from the RM2 is lack of OneNote. I wish MS would get on board.

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I've been using a nova pro since its inception, the nova 3 is a lot faster than the Nova Pro I had, so I'm tempted to switch as well.

The Boox Note Air is probably closer to the RM2. Nova Pro was too slow for most android apps IMHO. The newer Boox devices are much more usable in that sense.

The glass screen is quite good, although I think the typing experience on RM2 is a bit better. I personally prefer Android, because of software accessibility, but if you want to hack around with your device and build things on your own RM is the way to go.

Also, as always with "small" Chinese companies they're not complying with the GPL.

I think in terms of syncing Onyx Boox is ahead of RM "(out of the box)"

OneNote is not funcional. You can quite easily set it up so that your notes sync as PDFs to the cloud (Dropbox/Google Drrive/One Drive) via a3rd party syncing app. I use that and it works great. My notes sync to my desktop and I can add/remove papers from my desktop as well.
Please read up on Kaleido before being tempted. It’s sufficiently darker than the monochrome eink to make reading in normal indoor lighting very hard. Also, the color resolution is, like, ugh. It is a very nieche thing. Now, the monochrome booxes do look tempting.