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Originally Posted by fgdas
Below pictures are from Japanese Sony website:
1: business man flying with low-cost airline
2: unemployed buddy sitting all day at the café
3: three social workers brainstorming what they could do for above buddy
4: cellist practicing for street busking
5: writer creating his sixth unpublished novel
6: county council surveyors
7: scientist trying to find cancer cure
8: optimist trying to figure out how to get out the jammed paper in his manual
9: YouTuber narrating voice over another monetised video
10: Sony representative asking customer's needs which he's going to abolish later on
11: DIYer brainstorming his next project over free books in the library
12: sexy secretary trying to make up pluses and minuses about her boyfriend
13: doodling interpreter
14: lawyer
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Sony seems to have put out yet more, great, unrealized hardware. They seem to have a way to go before fulfilling the promises of their advertising. The RP1 seems useful only in proximity to a computer, for conveniently reading and marking up what would very recently have been on the computer screen. (You'd think then, since the hardware allows for it, that Sony would implement screen mirroring.) Three weeks of battery life is meaningless where one cannot work with it less than a day without a computer.
Your captions for Sony's ads are pretty funny. Sony's ads are, however, misleading. Professional musicians require handsfree page turning. (Sony could implement this via Bluetooth, but hasn't.) A writer away for a long weekend does occasionally require a keyboard. (Sony could implement keyboards via Bluetooth, but hasn't.) Surveyors and customer service representatives require PDF pop-up data boxes, which, apparently, were available in the S1. According to a recent, YouTube video review, Sony has yet to implement this in the RP1. A lawyer requires at least a barebones browser in order to access databases such as Westlaw and LexisNexis and cloud/email access to documents received while out of the office. Sony implemented this is in the S1, but not the RP1.
Someone earlier on this thread said that s/he felt that Sony had rushed to market. (They certainly didn't manufacture enough units for release.) I'm hoping that this is the case. Perhaps, under sustained, customer pressure, Sony will flesh out the software to match its hardware—actually live up to its advertising.
As it is, the RP1 is nothing more than a larger, ReMarkable tablet. And neither is available for purchase.