Announced: reMarkable Paper Pro (color)

[dmalinovsky]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

That would be nice if Kobo created an 8" Reader with the new Gallery 3. That's one I might buy as it should not be so dark and the colors will be much better and no speckles.

They just released two color devices, and they didn’t have too frequent releases before, so it’s unlikely. Onyx and Pocketbook experimented with the previous version of Gallery 3 before, after rejecting it. So maybe they’ll finish the experiment this time. Some people even speculate about color Kindle… https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/20...re-likely-now/

[John F]

Originally Posted by DNSB

As far as I can tell from Remarkable's web page and some discussions elsewhere, the current Remarkable firmware renders ePub directly without the conversion to PDF that the original Remarkable firmware required. OTOH, I don't own a Remarkable and have exactly one acquaintance who does so have not tested this hands on. That the rendering is not very good is a different issue.

FWIW, from the Pro website:

Document support

PDF, EPUB (importing)
PDF, PNG, SVG (exporting)

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by dmalinovsky

They just released two color devices, and they didn’t have too frequent releases before, so it’s unlikely. Onyx and Pocketbook experimented with the previous version of Gallery 3 before, after rejecting it. So maybe they’ll finish the experiment this time. Some people even speculate about color Kindle… https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/20...re-likely-now/

If Amazon used Gallery 3, I think it would sell very well.

[Gormagon]

Originally Posted by dmalinovsky

Some people even speculate about color Kindle…

People will speculate about everything, especially these days with the internet, social media and so on. Besides I never understood what attracted people towards Amazon's Kindle…or Remarkable, which seems to pursue another subscription model. I guess that's the reason why they did not include a SD-card slot. 64 GB is ludicrous small. Of course they want to sell place on their computers (aka cloud service).
Not having at least 300 dpi/ppi in 2024 is another no go. Besides the colours seem to look very different when you export your drawings to a PDF:

"There's a larger color problem, and you can see it in the screenshots above where I made my first-ever e-ink color drawing — a fanciful anatomy of a human heart — using the Marker's brush and pen settings. What you're drawing on the screen is subtle, like pastel colors. But when you send the image (you can email your ReMarkable output with or without turning your handwriting into text), the PDF will show far more intense, almost cartoonish primary colors."
https://mashable.com/review/remarkable-paper-pro

For what the Paper Pro offers, it is way overpriced.

The only thing I like is the form factor. The concept of partial refreshing the screen to get rid of ghosting is interesting. Nevertheless, I find the ghosting and refresh issue with e-ink annoying. I really prefer matte LCDs these days like TCL NXTPAPER (especially for a smart phones), the Huawei MatePad 11,5 S or Lenovo Tab P12. Yes, I am crazy, had too much money to spend and bought all of these.

[dmalinovsky]

Originally Posted by Gormagon

Besides I never understood what attracted people towards Amazon's Kindle…or Remarkable, which seems to pursue another subscription model.

I'm not interested in Remarkable or any other eNote device, but this release gives hope for color E Ink future, which I'm a big fan.

Besides, if Amazon releases a color Kindle, many other companies may follow the suit, moving this tech forward (hopefully).

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by dmalinovsky

They just released two color devices, and they didn’t have too frequent releases before, so it’s unlikely. Onyx and Pocketbook experimented with the previous version of Gallery 3 before, after rejecting it. So maybe they’ll finish the experiment this time. Some people even speculate about color Kindle… https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/20...re-likely-now/

There was one site claiming the usual nameless but "informed" source that an 8" colour ereader with the Gallery 2024 screen and the Eink/HiMax T2000 ASIC was going to be announced before the end of the year. Given the stated octacore CPU, I suspect this was going to be an Android device.

OTOH, there are also those persistent items that Amazon is going to release a colour Kindle. The only oddity in most of those claims is the use of a MediaTek chipset as if that was new which seems is a bit odd since the Paperwhite 5, Kindle 11th gen and Scribe all used MediaTek CPUs.