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Originally Posted by flibber
This maybe your opinion but it is definately not as it is being sold in reviews....
https://goodereader.com/blog/electro...-reader-review
"It is brimming with great hardware and does not lock you into a walled garden like Sony and Remarkable does"
"The entire software experience is utterly amazing, apps instantly load and drawing has minimal latency. I was certainly not disappointed with any delays, which was surprising."
" The stylus performance is superb"
"These devices were all marketed as a digital note taker, aimed at professionals and students that wanted a replacement to paper. The company also hyped Android as being more open than standard Linux based readers and Google Play."
"It does not lock you into a closed ecosystem like the Sony Digital Paper or the Remarkable. You have complete freedom to download and install any apps you want and customize tons of UI features."
"Onyx made the call to launch the Note with Android 6.0, which makes it the only brand in the world to run it. This opens up hundreds of thousands of additional apps you can install and run properly."
"The Note is recommended for anyone who wants to take digital notes and wants their device to last weeks, without a charge." |
That reviews are full of crap or paid.
Except for the screen, the hardware has the same performance of a tablet from 2014 and I showed here the benchmark and the Wifi is only 2.4G, in 2018 not having 5G Wifi from a tablet is unacceptable and even worse because the wifi just because is connected without traffic consumes 6% of battery each hour.
This tablet today, is not ready for note taking for the horrible lag the pen has, so the stylus performance is pure crap.
It does not lock you into a closed system but they don't tell you that the applications are not optimized for eink and in the case of the Note, you get tremendous image retention from any app, so thousands of app not suited for this device. I can use an FTP server to transfer my books and that is handy and that is part of some usage that is better than a closed system.
Note is recommended for the people that wants to read book/documents at 10", browse some stuff in the web and do some other stuff related with reading.
This Note is laggy even when using the finger and is not suited for taking notes with the current firmware, who knows if with a software improvement it could be better.
What about support?... Onyx support is NOT existent.
Has this device flaws? yes, but I bought it to use as an ereader and is by miles much better option than my Kobo Aura One. It fit my needs.
Any device has its flaws, my tablets with Amoled destroys my eyes when reading, so I can see a movie but I can not use it to read a book or browse web for long time for example, so if I have to choose a grey scale eink device with some image retention and its lag problems or suffer my eye strain, I prefer the first option taking care of my eyes.
The difference between what I write and the reviews is that mine is honest, lot of reviews aren't, they are simply lying and this is useful to know because the next time you will understand who is telling a lie or not in a review.