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So far, I am very pleased with this device. It is perhaps the ideal size for a note taking/sketching device. Small and light enough to easily take about in a small shoulder bag, and yet it provides enough screen real estate for sketching and note taking to be comfortable.

It is also a very good size for reading. It may soon become my go to ereading device. Until now, my Kobo Aura One has been that device, except when I wanted to read a full sized PDF in which case I used my Max. I am sure there will still be times when I will want to use the Max for certain PDFs, but the Note should be able to meet most of my daily needs in this regard.

I was pleasantly surprised by how well the browser worked for accessing the internet. Previous experiences with eink browsers have not been pleasant. This loaded web pages relatively quickly and I was able to navigate through them without undue difficulty. However, I was mainly just reading news sites, not watching videos. Still, the sometimes flashing ads were not the problem I had worried they might be.

Although I have been able to install free apps from the Play Store without incident, I have not been able to install my already paid apps. It asks me to buy them again. I seem to remember that this was an issue with the Max 2. Not sure if that has been resolved yet, but I hope it is soon as I am currently having to make do with the free version of Moon+ Reader. It seems to be one of the few ereaders capable of properly handling furigana when reading in Japanese.

When I first paired a bluetooth keyboard with the Note, I was a little bit annoyed because the virtual keyboard also popped up robbing me of valuable screen real estate. I have never had that happen before. The bluetooth keyboard worked, but the virtual keyboard was also there. However, when I went into the settings on the virtual keyboard and turned off a few settings related to predictive typing, the virtual keyboard disappeared while the bluetooth keyboard was connected.

Another little peeve is that the regular Android Settings app seems to be hidden. I also seem to remember this being an issue with the Max 2. Again, not sure if this has been resolved with that device. On my Max, I can access the Android Settings from the Apps page. I just find the Android Settings a little more intuitive than the Onyx Settings.

Although I am so far very pleased with the device, I was a little bit disappointed to discover that the Note does not seem to have been enabled with Miracast. I was hoping that I would be able to connect the Note to my projector via a Miracast dongle. That would be enormously useful for work. I hope this is something which can be enabled later through a software update as my tablet running Android 6.0 can support it.