• @[email protected]
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    71 month ago

    Is that just the best an e-ink device can do? I didn’t even know you could get e-ink touchscreens at all!

    • @AbidanYre
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      171 month ago

      Pretty much all kindles have touch screens these days.

      And the current generation of Supernote, Remarkable, etc e-ink tablets have reasonable response times.

        • @nieceandtows
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          51 month ago

          There is mobiscribe wave in both bw and color. The company is shutting down, so they’re selling off their inventory for cheap. I bought a pen support bw notebook for $100 and a color pen supported notebook for $170.

            • madjo
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              31 month ago

              You weren’t kidding. The bw one went from 129 usd to 270 euro even before shipping costs were added.

              Simply switching countries from USA to Netherlands.

        • @AbidanYre
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          1 month ago

          The Supernote is running a version of Android that let’s you sideload stuff, but I haven’t messed with it too much. There are also boox devices that are Android based and the inkpalm from Xiaomi.

          For the most part though, I think the android versions they use are generally very old.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 month ago

            Ah that’s a shame, if there’s no guarantee of any kind of ongoing support then it’s just ewaste-in-waiting

            • @AbidanYre
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              21 month ago

              Meh, Supernote could shutdown tomorrow or upgrade to Android 16 and neither would change anything about how I use it. They also made the internals of this generation replaceable.

              • @[email protected]
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                11 month ago

                That’s good. My concern is generally with security updates but I guess it really depends what you’re using the device for.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 month ago

          Some Kindles. I know mine can be flashed to full Android instead of the stripped-down version it runs now, but I wouldn’t want to do that because it would run so much slower and have terrible battery life.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 month ago

      Current eink devices are much more responsive than older ones, so there were definitely some improvements over the years, we need some more decades for this technology to become a viable alternative in the devices like this.

      • themeatbridge
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        11 month ago

        If there was more demand for it, I doubt it would take decades.