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1. How's battery life? (with/without A2, with/without wifi)
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Too early to say yet. So far, battery life seems to be okay. Obviously consumes more power when wifi is enabled. Because of that, I usually have wifi turned off on most of my devices unless I actively need it.
Haven't really used A2 much other than to test the Note's capabilities when watching a video on YouTube and to see what it was like for surfing the internet.
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2. Has anyone tried using a cloud app like Drive or Dropbox?
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I don't really use cloud based apps if I can avoid them so can't help you there.
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3. Would you consider it for serious note taking or is pen & paper still better? That is for lecture notes, diary writing, idea sketching, taking notes while reading a physical book, etc.
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It will take a while to see how reliable the Note and its note taking abilities are. However, I believe some of the Max and Max 2 users have been taking extensive notes with their devices so I suspect it will prove a very useful writing/sketching tool.
However, were I taking important notes at a conference or in a lecture, I would always have a small pad of paper and pen handy in case I suddenly needed a backup.
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4. How's the pressure sensitivity?
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It seems to work okay, but not as well as some of the videos which I have seen of the ReMarkable. However, I also have also been a bit wary about applying too great a pressure after learning of some Max 2 users having scratched their screens. Not sure whether or not the Note's screen is more robust. Until the answer to that question is revealed, I'll tend to go easy on the pressure, but it does work.
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5. How is the rendering? Is it largely smooth, or are there a lot of black flashes?
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Very smooth for books. Of course, it will flash a bit when loading image heavy pages while browsing on the internet, but I was pleasantly surprised by how it compared to previous eink devices I have used to browse with. Much superior. I could readily see myself using it to read the news etc whereas I would never be tempted to browse the internet on any of my other eink devices.
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6. If you take epub notes (split view) and then change the font size - what happens?
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With an epub book, you cannot change the font size while taking notes in split view.
However, after closing the book and opening it again, you can change the font size. If you then go into the split view note taking mode again, your previous notes will show up in the general vicinity as they previously were and will be the same size that you wrote them.
Of course, your previous notes will not be exactly aligned with the text being shown because there will either be more or fewer lines of text on the page being shown. So, if you have drawn an arrow pointing toward a specific line in the text, it may not be pointing to the same line if you later adjust the font size for that book, but it will be nearby.
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7. If you make pdf annotations and later change the zoom, do the annotations render correctly?
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If you are making annotations on top of the text as opposed to taking notes in split view, the annotations will zoom in and out as you zoom in and out of the text, accurately maintaining their position.
When taking notes in split view, it is possible to zoom in and out of the PDF text while still in the note taking mode something that wasn't possible while in that mode with an epub text.