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I mostly agree about eInk + Android, however I think it must make it easier to put together and test applications than a bare Linux kernel, including finding people with necessary skills. I bet Amazon hasn't hired a Kindle developer in years, and maybe fired all but one or two of them. How else to explain how new features have become so rare and unimpressive?
I had icky experience with Entourage EdgeJr and BOOX/Onyx eReaders, but that was a long time ago. Yet Android & eInk devices keep coming out.
NxtPaper has very minimal presence in the US. TCL site doesn't link to any US store.
AFAICT the only storefront for TCL phone or tablet is on Amazon, no idea where one would go for support other than to hope whoever runs the storefront pays attention to feedback, or just returning it to Amazon. And only 1 phone and 1 (14") tablet model, in various 'bundles'. BestBuy (only electronics chain left) carries only their TVs.
Yeah, setting up GP is only started with simple toggle. It seems Google is upping requirements for getting things going with latest Android versions, unless you pay them something. But perhaps they can streamline it in some update.
On my Fire 11 Max it was install 4 APKs and then just register with Google. But it is a couple of versions back, and I think some Google services (which I do not care about) still don't work on it.
Another weird thing is apparently these do not have USB ports, just charging/headphone port. They claim '7 ways' to get things on and off of there, but it doesn't include this one.
And I think Mobius screen is not amenable to front-light, being flexible, so the AiPaper has none. The plus side is that stylus is not as far from digitizing layer and the eInk contrast is not diminished by the light guiding layer, and it is lighter than glass would be. And the 'give' of the plastic gives it more of a paper feel according to some reviews.
All of that aside (I am not getting one), I still want a super light note-taking device with long time between charges and great handwriting experience. At this point that means eInk is necessary. I do not want to do any editing beyond erase or Undo. But I want to be able to clip and annotate from any kind of document.
Scribe only lets me create notebooks, or annotate books and personal documents, where the annotations live. Never the twain shall meet.
At least with AiPaper or maybe BOOX, you can have reading apps and probably copy and paste text from there to some notebook you have going. Maybe paste in screen captures too? That is kinda what I'd like to have.
I finally have a screen layer and pen tip for my iPad Pro & Pencil that approaches the natural feeling handwriting that I have on Scribe.
And my use cases work okay with Apple Notes and Nebo (which I had paid to unlock features but forgotten about because I wasn't able to write naturally on glass).
But it's not very cuddly (mine is 12.9"). And even the 11" iPads are about 100g heavier than AiPaper. I am gonna try to see if I can adjust to writing for long periods on my mini. I'm doubtful it will live up to my ideal note-taking device, but probably nothing does.
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