| I really enjoy my Onyx Nova 3. It's a fairly novel device. Your comment is a great summary. Like most, I wanted an ereader for consuming books without an LCD/OLED screen. I liked the idea of a color reader for the syntactic highlighting of code snippets. I further leaned into color once I realized there was a market for Android based ereaders. This means I can more easily treat it as a second phone to browse books, manga, github, HN, Pocket, Medium etc. As other commenters pointed out, you probably do want to lock down the device and enable Google play store. I have NetGuard installed since it's constantly phoning home to China. If you are comfortable with the price and understand the limitations (DPI, ghosting, darker screen) then it's a pretty great device. The pen is great and responsive but it doesn't replace pen/paper. I primarily use the pen to mark up books/PDFs. The native library app it ships with is pretty great and beats out Moon+ Reader and other apps I've tried. OneNote is particularly great for note taking and worth calling out. However, I can't find myself integrating it into my work flow. You can set different options to negate ghosting. It's nice to be able to save these options to a specific app. My biggest wishes would be higher DPI, brighter screen, and a warmlight option. I'm not optimistic we will see any drastic innovation in the next few years. Kaleido/Plus isn't anything groundbreaking. I do hope that I'm wrong. There's a clear demand for this technology to improve. |