| I just returned my Daylight. I found it: - oddly heavy, the Daylight is made of all plastic (body & screen) - yet it’s heavier than an iPad Air made from metal & glass. - handwriting lag, the input lags when I use the pen is so much that it distracts me while writing a sentence. I have to concentrate to ensure it’s keeping up with each letter I write. No such lag exists with my iPad Air. - no setup instructions or tutorial on its unique gestures. You boot it up and have to figure out how it works and getting it on WiFi - display resolution is much worse than I was expecting. - when using chrome, webpages render incredibly small. I’m having to constantly zoom in. There’s a setting in chrome about “desktop mode” but it made no difference. And I also wasn’t expecting to have to sign up for a Google account to even get software updates, even from Daylight. (Maybe I don’t but that’s what the Google App Store made it seem like). Wish I had read this review before I had bought it. https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/20/24201356/daylight-compute... * Note: I truly love the idea of Daylight, and hope they succeed. But in my mind, a considerable device improvement needs to be made to realize that vision. Until then, I’ll revert back to using my iPad Air (and now with nano-texture coming more broadly across Apple lines, Daylight is going to have that much more to overcome - because Apple is also cheaper product). |
- oddly heavy: it's indeed heavier than remarkable, but not an issue for me.
- handwriting lag: hm, which app did you use? I didn't notice that in both Reader and Notes, the experience was all right for me.
- no setup: valid feedback, I had to figure out things myself. Granted, it's an Android tablet, so I think I discovered most of the shortcuts etc. Not that much different from iPad.
- display resolution: maybe because I used iPad mini (and Remarkable) before, I didn't have very high expectations. The resolution is OK with me.
- chrome rendering too small: I didn't notice that before you mentioned it, but you can also change the default zoom level in Settings -> Accessibility, which I just discovered.
- Google ecosystem: yep, I kinda expected that given that I knew it's an Android tablet, so that was not an issue for me.