[rcaban]

Hi all - received my reMarkable Tablet last week. It pretty mush does the writing and sketching thing almost flawlessly. This is a new era in how we digitally record handwriting and sketching/drawing but it's not without it's flaws.

Battery life - poor, at best. I lose ~10-15% an hour under normal usage, even with wifi turned off as "MAD" user (someone in forum) stated in this forum. I did hear that they are updating firmware to improve that.

Which brings me to [B]Support/B]t- almost non-existent. Maybe the holidays? I know they are overwhelmed. But plunking down 600.00 for this should fetch some urgency to our issues with the tablet

Many, many bugs - I cannot connect to WiFi at the office because we use WPA2 encryption. That's my theory, I could be wrong. I can connect at home, Starbucks, at a friends house (when they tell me the password of course), just not in the office. And the only difference I can see is that my office uses that WPA2 encryption. Additionally, when attempting to connect, and it fails, it does not tell you that if failed. There is no error dialogue, or a prompt that tells you about system issues. This is the case for most issues that have cropped up. Like when emailing notes from the tablet, it does not guide you how to do it and if you input an incorrectly formatted email address, you will not receive a warning or error. I found this to be consistent while performing many functions that may have failed due to me or the limits of the (software).

The stylus feels very cheap however critical to this tablet. Also, it is round, so it constantly rolls off my desk.

The body feels like a throwback to the 1st generation Kindle. Not totally a bad thing, it's more of a focus on functionality rather than design (construction/aesthetics)

Now for the Good

This does exactly what it was set out to do. Take notes. Sketch. It does it well, actually, almost perfect!

Although the battery does not last long, it charges amazingly fast even from my laptop USB port! I would say < 1/2 hour, it goes from 20% to 100%. Hopefully that is a good thing

There are lots of templates to use. They assist in whatever style you want to write or draw in. Bravo!

The screen looks and sounds like writing on paper. No glare, will not crack (not glass) if dropped and no eyestrain. Okay, no back light, but show me a sheet of paper that's back-lit today.

Transferring files from mobile apps and desktop apps works very well, albeit limited to ePUB and PDF.

Synchronization to their cloud works very, yes, I said, very well.

Overall, this is a first generation product. I remember the first generation Kindle, first generation iPhone, and the list goes on and on. I can say, I am using the sh*% out of this tablet, testing it's performance and so to speak - stretching its legs. I take copious notes at my job and find this extremely useful thus far. Has it crashed a couple of times? Yes, but briefly and back on-line immediately. It does not crash consistently. Does it have bugs? Absolutely. I am in the software business and bugs are part of the stream. They do get resolved. So, I am being patient abut this. reMarkable did provide the option to return in 45 days if not happy, and hopefully, I will not need to take that path but it's an option nonetheless.

I hope this review proves useful to all of us new adopters. I'm willing to entertain questions as I have been spending an exorbitant amount of time with this puppy. It is a great first attempt todays firestorm of changing technology.

-Raul Caban