I just watched the video in the article, and the slow refresh rate also makes the touch controls frustratingly unresponsive. I love the concept, and might be interested in the next generation of this device, but the poor responsiveness is a deal breaker.
Some Kindles. I know mine can be flashed to full Android instead of the stripped-down version it runs now, but I wouldn’t want to do that because it would run so much slower and have terrible battery life.
There is mobiscribe wave in both bw and color. The company is shutting down, so they’re selling off their inventory for cheap. I bought a pen support bw notebook for $100 and a color pen supported notebook for $170.
The Supernote is running a version of Android that let’s you sideload stuff, but I haven’t messed with it too much. There are also boox devices that are Android based and the inkpalm from Xiaomi.
For the most part though, I think the android versions they use are generally very old.
Meh, Supernote could shutdown tomorrow or upgrade to Android 16 and neither would change anything about how I use it. They also made the internals of this generation replaceable.
Current eink devices are much more responsive than older ones, so there were definitely some improvements over the years, we need some more decades for this technology to become a viable alternative in the devices like this.
I just watched the video in the article, and the slow refresh rate also makes the touch controls frustratingly unresponsive. I love the concept, and might be interested in the next generation of this device, but the poor responsiveness is a deal breaker.
And you have to hold down the shift or Fn while hitting the desired key. Like a freaking desktop keyboard. No sticky. Wtf is up with that?
Yep, for numbers, too. Like, I need two thumbs and bifocals to dial a phone number.
Yup. Definitely an awful design choice.
Is that just the best an e-ink device can do? I didn’t even know you could get e-ink touchscreens at all!
Pretty much all kindles have touch screens these days.
And the current generation of Supernote, Remarkable, etc e-ink tablets have reasonable response times.
That’s cool, are any of them full Android devices that you can tinker with?
Some Kindles. I know mine can be flashed to full Android instead of the stripped-down version it runs now, but I wouldn’t want to do that because it would run so much slower and have terrible battery life.
There is mobiscribe wave in both bw and color. The company is shutting down, so they’re selling off their inventory for cheap. I bought a pen support bw notebook for $100 and a color pen supported notebook for $170.
Apparently not for Europe
The Supernote is running a version of Android that let’s you sideload stuff, but I haven’t messed with it too much. There are also boox devices that are Android based and the inkpalm from Xiaomi.
For the most part though, I think the android versions they use are generally very old.
Ah that’s a shame, if there’s no guarantee of any kind of ongoing support then it’s just ewaste-in-waiting
Meh, Supernote could shutdown tomorrow or upgrade to Android 16 and neither would change anything about how I use it. They also made the internals of this generation replaceable.
That’s good. My concern is generally with security updates but I guess it really depends what you’re using the device for.
Current eink devices are much more responsive than older ones, so there were definitely some improvements over the years, we need some more decades for this technology to become a viable alternative in the devices like this.
If there was more demand for it, I doubt it would take decades.