Onyx Boox Note 10.3 is available Now

[citytrader]

I just ordered my Boox Note on Ereader, I will post my experience with them once my Note arrives.
I currently have Kobo Aura One (hacked version) that is a pain navigating pdf and epubs and Galaxy TabPro S that destroys my eyes (something is wrong with the Amoled screens under Windows and eye strain)

[mossblaser]

Originally Posted by Waiting4somethin

Has anyone ordered one (using the German store) from UK?

I have, pre-ordered back when it first came up. Arrived on Wednesday via UPS along with most of the other folks on here.

[orpheus2011]

Originally Posted by citytrader

I just ordered my Boox Note on Ereader, I will post my experience with them once my Note arrives.
I currently have Kobo Aura One (hacked version) that is a pain navigating pdf and epubs and Galaxy TabPro S that destroys my eyes (something is wrong with the Amoled screens under Windows and eye strain)

Have patience and wait for it to arrive, you are in for a massive treat on both counts!

[Orb_dude]

Today I received an email from Ereader store their second Note shipment is delayed preventing them from fulfilling at least my order (not a pre-order). For the time being I'll be using my Remarkable. They told me it should arrive beginning next week. Process time also increased from 3-7 days to 7-10 days.

[Waiting4somethin]

Glad to hear that people are successfully acquiring this ereader and that it seems to be as good as it looks.

A review from good e reader will come soon it seems:

Michael Kozlowski
We filmed an unboxing and review, once its edited, we will update this post.

Unboxing is up: https://youtu.be/kN3St7RjxlA

[notemaker]

Originally Posted by orpheus2011

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Will test epub et all. I haven’t yet used the stylus (included one HAS clip, by the way), due to concerns over permanent scratches on the screen, as witnessed by Max 2 owners. Will start using it once concerns have been allayed.

Thanks for the info, much appreciated.

Regarding permanent scratches, this is the first I've heard about it. Got a link?

[Question Mark]

Originally Posted by notemaker

1. How's battery life? (with/without A2, with/without wifi)

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.

Originally Posted by notemaker

2. Has anyone tried using a cloud app like Drive or Dropbox?

I don't really use cloud based apps if I can avoid them so can't help you there.

Originally Posted by notemaker

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.

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.

Originally Posted by notemaker

4. How's the pressure sensitivity?

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.

Originally Posted by notemaker

5. How is the rendering? Is it largely smooth, or are there a lot of black flashes?

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.

Originally Posted by notemaker

6. If you take epub notes (split view) and then change the font size - what happens?

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.

Originally Posted by notemaker

7. If you make pdf annotations and later change the zoom, do the annotations render correctly?

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.

[Question Mark]

Originally Posted by notemaker

Regarding permanent scratches, this is the first I've heard about it. Got a link?

You'll find some mention of scratches on the Max 2 screen in the following thread. in and around page 20.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...atches&page=20

[Uguptu]

Guys, if anyone has 5 minutes, I'd appreciate if you could upload this small article on the device, crop the view in the reader so text takes up all page, and take a crisp shot of, say, the down left corner of the second page like this (this one is not crisp though ) : https://imgur.com/a/mUv2r

[Question Mark]

Originally Posted by Uguptu

Guys, if anyone has 5 minutes, I'd appreciate if you could upload this small article on the device, crop the view in the reader so text takes up all page, and take a crisp shot of, say, the down left corner of the second page like this (this one is not crisp though ) : https://imgur.com/a/mUv2r

Not the best at taking such pictures or uploading them. Let's see if this works.

One picture shows the file cropped with the Note's native reader, Neo Reader 2. The other picture shows it cropped with the Librera reading app.

[mdp]

Could you kindly verify what is returned by
` adb shell getprop ro.product.board ` from the desktop, or
` getprop ro.product.board ` from an android terminal
by the Note?

We use that command to identify models in scripts (e.g. for the penultimate product it returns 'Max2').

[Uguptu]

Originally Posted by Question Mark

Not the best at taking such pictures or uploading them. Let's see if this works.

One picture shows the file cropped with the Note's native reader, Neo Reader 2. The other picture shows it cropped with the Librera reading app.

Awesome, thank you very much! The screen resolution visually is noticeably better than that of Onyx 9.7" devices.

[Question Mark]

Originally Posted by mdp

Could you kindly verify what is returned by
` adb shell getprop ro.product.board ` from the desktop, or
` getprop ro.product.board ` from an android terminal
by the Note?

We use that command to identify models in scripts (e.g. for the penultimate product it returns 'Max2').

Sorry, don't really know how to do that, nor what it means. Is there a special program one uses to perform such a task?

As you may have gathered, I am not all that tech savvy.

[Question Mark]

Originally Posted by mdp

Could you kindly verify what is returned by
` adb shell getprop ro.product.board ` from the desktop, or
` getprop ro.product.board ` from an android terminal
by the Note?

We use that command to identify models in scripts (e.g. for the penultimate product it returns 'Max2').

Okay, did a bit of googling and took a trip over to XDA. Was able to successfully install ADB on my laptop. However, could not get it to connect to my Note. Whenever I typed in " adb devices ", nothing came up.

I thought maybe I was doing something wrong, so I tried connecting a tablet. It recognized the tablet immediately, and I was able to use your commands on the tablet. I was actually then able to use ADB to extract an apk from a purchased app so that I could install it on my Note. Took a bit of time to figure things out, but worked without a hitch.

Not sure why ADB doesn't connect to the Note. But at least it was not time wasted as I can now install my purchased apps on the Note until they sort the Play Store issue out.

[sogaiu]

FWIW, I never got adb working for the original Max, though had no problems getting it to work on the Max 2.

You did go through the whole getting "Developer options" summoning dance as well as enabling "USB debugging" in Developer options process, right?