|
I bought the combo package, tablet + case + pen. I had mixed feelings just about everything the moment I unpacked it but the screen size was so nice that I really tried to convince myself that I want to keep it. Eventually I gave up after few days and returned it.
1. The weight:
It's heavy. With the cover it was unusable as a tablet. Naked was on the edge of heavy but not too heavy. The cover is just useless unless you want to use it as a laptop, not as tablet, perhaps with external keyboard. Unfortunately without the cover the (IMO useless) camera on the back hinders usability as you can't place it firmly flat.
2. The screen:
First, the frost white was a bit too cold. The 11" also doesn't have proper white color, but it's a bit more pleasant. Secondly, the viewing angles are really bad. I felt eye strain because each eye see a different picture, one would see the left edge darker, the other the right edge darker. The only usable position was to hold it with both hands on my laps as far as comfortably (for the hands) possible, which is at the knee level. With this distance the viewing angle was just ok if I positioned the tablet perfectly. If you put it on the table to use the pencil the top half of the screen will be darker. Of course I used it in portrait position, for landscape position I'd prefer to use laptop right away.
3. The stylus:
It's usable, but don't expect to much. It really surprised me that it's even a bit slower than the stylus on Onyx e-ink tablets. However it does it's job, you can write with it. Definitely unusable for me as a pen-and-paper replacement. Apart from that, there's again zero specialized software which is a big minus. For a device marketed as pen-productivity it should have a good note taking and PDF annotation software preinstalled, without any subscription. You can find a good software for Android, but you hear me, that should be included in the price out of the box. Here I'd also like to vent about the silly "paper like imitation", of course it's useless. However since they made a special button they should give users the choice to use it as ON/OFF switch for finger touch. So many Android pen capable apps do not handle well touch rejection, actually all of them. Sure most of them will prevent drawing by finger when the pen is close enough, but you have to be very precise not to lift the pen a mm too high. Apart from that some apps didn't block pinch-zoom gesture at all which was spontaneously triggering when I was writing with pen. It'd be so much better if I could just press the side button to disable finger touch completely.
TLDR; I was very disappointed with the device, but I really liked the 14" screen with 3:2 proportions. I'll keep looking for a similar tablet with OLED screen and mat finish.
|