Only drawbacks as an ereader:- Narrow bezel
- Android, though it's Android 13
- 10.9″ is large to read a novel. The 7″ or 8″ eink ereaders are a better size and shape.
- Aspect ratio is a bit skinny, but not as bad as common 16:9
- Not quite as good as eink for a mono text novel
Other drawbacks (not to do with reading)- Poor built in sound because it's too skinny
- No 3.5mm jack
- No option for separate charging
- Auto brightnesss doesn't work properly (never seen it work well on anything)
- Android
- Camera Bulge on rear, making it fatter would have been fine
- Too narrow bezel
- Some USB 2.0 hubs don't work
- DVD/CD player doesn't work (but this is common!)
Positive features- 2000 x 1200 pixels
- Fantastic screen with almost zero reflections and glare
- Great contrast
- 10% to 30% easy brightness range for night and indoors
- 25% to 100% brightness outdoors including direct sunlight!
- All the eye saver and reading modes not needed.
- Incredible run time per charge
- Perfect HD Video, even using off air live TV via USB stick for a laptop.
- BT audio is good
- BT and USB keyboards are fine
- USB-A 3.0 Hub works in USB 3.0 mode with a suitable USB-C to USB-A 3.0 adaptor.
- Some USB 2.0 Hubs work
- USB keyboard, mouse, memory stick, and Kobo ereader all work same time on a USB 2.0 hub. The TV stick only with a USB3.0 hub, though it's only USB 2.0
- Both USB to RS232 and USB to specialist TTL serial work.
- Ultra matt, low glare, high contrast screen.
- T-Pen is good and very cheap
- Digitiser/Pen for Nebo, drawing, or Gboard is perfect
- Compass works without Location enabled (Heavens Above app)
- Responsive to orientation
- SDR and DVB-T (DTT) perfect with USB TV stick (mine does 24 MHz to 1800MHz. Ships, Aircraft, Amateur Radio, FM Broadcast, SW broadcast etc). Other bands via addon converters, which I don't have yet.
Reading / annotation in use- Pocketbook
- Xodo
- Nebo
- Jota (plain text notes)
- Libby (local library newspapers, magazines and comics)
- Borrowbox (local library ebooks & audiobooks)
- Kindle
- Kobo
- Playbooks
- LibreOffice Viewer
- Gboard with PC layout and Handwriting
- T-Pen
- EKH Switch and EKH Settings (remap BT or USB keyboard)
Found that mostly I don't need a keyboard. The T-pen or a finger with GBoard handwriting, or T-Pen with Nebo (which adds exportable computer text to PDFs of any kind).
General Applications Added & in Use- Musicolet (can store position of mp3 audiobooks and playlists or folders)
- AA Image viewer
- Sketchbox Free
- Snapseed (photo crop and limited edit)
- Open Camera (better than standard Android)
- Canon EOS Connect
- WS View (manage FW updates etc of our Ecowitt Weather station)
- pTxRx Lite (remote CAT of 2 way radios with bigger display)
- SDR touch driver
- SDR Touch
- DVB-T Driver
- Aerial TV
- 2 x Banking Apps
- Heavens-Above (stars & sat & ISS tracking)
- Samsung Web browser
- Firefox browser
- K9 Mail
- IZ2UUF Koch Morse Tutor
- Lichess
- Robot36 (SSTV)
- Pocket Prefix Plus (Amateur call signs)
- PortoDB (uses SQLight for your own databases)
- Shortwave Schedules
- Viber (Chat by Rakuten that owns Kobo, need it on phone 1st)
- VLC (most video & audio formats and LAN)
- Morse Code Reader
Others added to test and some of the Google stuff used