[adolph]

It's interesting how close PineNote is to Remarkable's product (maybe not given OEM whitelabeling). Given Remarkable's OS is a "purposely designed Linux-based operating system for low-latency digital paper displays" I wonder how long the Pine community will take to match software features?

Pine: 191.1 x 232.5 x 7.4 mm 438.0 g, 4/128 G, 4000 mAH

Rkbl: 187.0 x 246.0 x 4.7 mm 403.5 g, 1/008 G, 3000 mAh

https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PineNote

https://remarkable.com/

[kews]

I saw some discussion that it also resembles a Bookeen Notea strongly.

I don’t know much about the world of OEM whitelabeling, so it’s all interesting.

[MartijnBraam]

Like a lot of pine64 products, it's reusing the case for an existing product. Producing case molds is one of the most expensive parts of production. Every product announcements there's people finding very similar looking devices, but then ignore that the boards in the products are fully pine64 custom.

I've also had the pinenote and the remarkable beside eachother and it's not the same case, the remarkable has the large edge at the bottom and is slightly thinner. The pen surface feels very similar though.

[kews]

They may be people like me, where it's not about ignoring but rather that no one's ever told them how you reuse some sort of reference outsides yet put in very different insides, so they have no idea.

And I still don't know whether - speaking industry-wide - insides are generally quite different, or whether that varies greatly, and how a non-hardware-specialist might guess in a given instance.

[adolph]

The differentientation will be the software. I watched a couple Remarkable demos and the software is reasonably slick. Will Pine and the Pine community be able to match it?