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Originally Posted by juegos
I hope so but am skeptical about this unfortunately. The hardware, prototype of the DPT RP1 was already provided to the FCC in July 2016 ( https://fccid.io/AK8DPTRP1). What has Sony's software team done from then onwards? Rather than developing new features, they spent a year on removing features that were in the DPT-S1 but are no longer in the DPT-RP1:
- no more browser (in fact no access to the internet at all)
- no more direct download from cloud services / webdav
- no more options to (auto) fill forms
- no more keyboard option
and so on. In return for all that you get a Sony Digital Paper App that requires you to be near your Windows / Mac PC to get new documents on your DPT-RP1.
So it seems unlikely to me they're going to turn the clock back a year software-wise and return all the features that made its predecessor the DPT-S1 so useful, let alone develop new features. |
Seriously, do you own an DPT-S1? Have you ever used one?
Browsing the internet on an eInk device is a terrible user experience, the S1 was no exception. As a result, I never browsed the web on it. I bet Sony figured out that most people hated the web browser. The new "Print PDF to Digital Paper" option available from every browser window on a real computer is far more useful a feature than having a browser on the RP1.
I'm not willing to wait for an eInk tablet to load web pages and process HTML. Talk about wasting battery life! Sony was smart to get rid of the web browser. It takes a huge amount of programmer resources to maintain and enhance a web browser, and, at the end of the day, it just isn't worth it, in my opinion. We've all got far better web browsers on our laptops and desktops.
OK, you've told us about the lack of cloud services a number of times now and I still maintain that most people will be close to their computers a few times a day and therefore easily able to synch new documents onto their RP1s.
AutoFill PDF forms, some people might care, maybe it will come later, but I don't think that many people will be upset about losing this feature. I was working on filling out an AutoFill PDF on my desktop today and it was a clunky affair. I'm sure it was frustrating on the S1.
Keyboard, again, typing notes on the keyboard on the S1 was a tedious process, good riddance to it. I could write sticky notes with the stylus far faster than I could type them. I bet Sony figured that out too.
We've all got computers, let's use them for what they're good at, which is high speed surfing of the internet and typing up documents. Let's use the RP1 for what it's good at, which is making handwritten notes, either from scratch or on PDF documents, and reading PDF files.