You are talking to my soul with these videos. Thank you so much. You have the best videos in you tube regarding these devices that can be used for higher academic purposes. I am bit fed up seeing videos about using these devices for reading comics books mainly. This is the future for our children for advancing learning and academic achievement. It is quite a technological achievement nowadays that you can have the equivalent of the library of Alexandria in 525 grams…another comment is that my iPad Pro has such a set up that is distraction free device like my remarkable exactly because was bought as an learning tool. Not sure about the synchronisation thing as well between remarkable 1 or 2 and pro when there is much difference in storage and in case you have a book library in excess of 8 gb. You addressed most of my main concerns about this device but I am still concerned about the writing feeling in glass and the lack of emr Wacom stylus for full versatility. In any case my remarkable pro is on order.
Spot on! I'm I'm in education and placing these devices in the school system as opposed to Chromebooks or ipad would make a huge difference in learning!!
There are a couple of open-source community projects going on, but they are not yet updated for the new device or outdated because of API changes. I have tried today to get this up and running, but I could only get a NYTimes extract from an RSS feed into a PDF, but not yet uploaded to the device. But there are options to achieve this ... Just requires some hacking :-)
The refresh thing: WIth the RMPP, the remarkable team made different zones refreshable instead of the whole page. So you draw in a color, it refreshes, so it sets that line with the color, and allows you to draw over it, dither in other colors, etc. Otherwise the refresh would be the whole page, after every line. I believe its the only e-ink tablet that does zone refreshes vs full page/scheduled refreshes.
Thanks, I understand that, but it seems that only the strike itself is refreshed. And refreshes could be delayed (with a risk of increasing artifacts). But in this case? Still, I can live with it, but it may annoy some.
@@Artellico Hey So just adding onto what @bhappychap has said. When you take a look at other tablets with the Gallery 3 color display-in particularly the Bigme Galy. When you write on that screen you'll notice that the color doesn't refresh, however, you will also notice that because it doesn't refresh the color isn't accurate and it also leads to a lot of ghosting which looks like yellow stains. On the Bigme Galy you do get the option to manually refresh, but it is a full page refresh. So with remarkable paper pro, only the colored writing goes through a refresh to decrease the frequency of ghosting and to get a more accurate color to appear. I personally don't find it distracting and I don't believe it is a big deal. The device does have a pricey tag but people have to understand no one is being forced to purchase the device and you also get 100 days to return it. I also don't believe this can be called "Remarkable 3" as its main focus isn't to improve on what the remarkable 2 has done and has to offer, but rather give you a more premium experience of the software that already runs on the remarkable 2.
Thanks for another great review. I wish the camera zoomed in more closely on the text on RMPP when you click the contrast filter. I can tell something definitely happened, but am unsure of the exact change.
Thanks for such a helpful review. I'd be interested to know whether the highlighting of the text becomes misplaced if you change from portrait to landscape view (without making any other adjustments).
The landscape mode is not available for ePubs, as they reflow anyway given the settings of font size and alignment. You can only change the PDFs to landscape mode (including all handwritten notes) which makes sense for screen sharing and PDFs with small text which does not reflow.
If not mistaken, the color pigments on each “cell” are chosen by a delay of the particles moving between the charged poles, so they move the white to the bottom and all colors on top (black) and then try to move by the fast switching to pick the right color, but this is prone to a color ghosting of the gallery screen, those claimed yellow ghosting effects, so that refresh should be a way to ensure higher fidelity. But I bet that remarkable is going to be quite clear about it in the future as this is a very new technique.
Many thanks, sounds logical to me. I can live with the flickering. Despite some of the critical voices, I do really enjoy reading documents / books with colorful graphics / images, but it may have some tradeoffs.
Did you notice this point from your testing : reading or writing on the RM PP for some time, on particular page, while not disabling or keep the screen turned on - then some period of not touching the device, say 5minutes OR 10minutes, and then if pressing on the device , next page or something , the screen simply does not respond , I mean , there is some period of "freeze", after those previous period of inactivity?
Difficult to answer, I sometimes have a "no-response swipe" in any phase of using the device. I usually try again with more pressure and it works. My finger skin is usually quite dry, so maybe not enough electrical contact to activate the touch response. But perhaps also the issue you mentioned. So far, nothing critical for me. On the other hand, I had twice a freeze overnight, when turning on in the morning. On/off button worked, but there was no way to get touch working. And then, of course, no pin could be typed in, I ended up in a forced reboot. This should not happen, I hope that this just a minor bug in the release version of the software. I guess the first updates will come out soon.
Thank you for including the musical score. This is my main reason for wanting an e-ink device, and it is not considered by most reviewers as a use case. However I understand from your video that annotations don't resize with the original, so if I annotated the score, and then resized it, that the annotations wouldn't also resize? That makes it completely unusable for music unfortunately, as the placement of the annotations is even more critical than your example with highlighting. And resizing before making annotations would not always be practical, I don't think.
It’s interesting about the refresh - the Bigme Galy (also Gallery 3 screen) doesn’t do the separate refresh. Instead it waits for the next scheduled full screen refresh. I would prefer this to the way the rMPP does it.
I don’t think so - the rMPP way is actually slower (albeit the “zone refresh” doesn’t stop you writing elsewhere, it can be distracting though) compared to the Bigme.
Do I understand something incorrectly, or does 11.8 - 10.3 equal to 1.5, not 1.2? As for the highlighter snapping - this indeed could be done. But the problem still persists for other drawings, handwritten notes and doodling. It may be hard if not impossible to connect those to a specific word or paragraph even. So maybe that's why they didn't implement it.
This "post-rendering" (for example, for Blue) is strange...But it is somehow reminding me the "Full Refresh" button and "automatic Full Refresh" on Boox or other devices (than RM). As you have also mentioned, when we draw in Blue or Red, during drawing until we lift the stylus, we Do see already the line in Blue or Red, and when we lift the stylus, those "post-rendering" simply flickering the same line, which is already Blue or Red, into again the same Blue or Red : ) This kinda has no sense from the aside...but maybe it has some technical sense for RM - but honestly - why would you do that (that "post-rendering" that way... ), Remarkable ??? :)
Great info. It shows clearly that the music page looks great on RM Pro. Another reviewer said the opposite and didn't show examples. This solves it. Also nice to discover you can show web pages on the RM Pro translated via this web plugin via the firefox browser. I have a calibrated PC screen and you can clearly see the slightly warmer background color of RM Pro screen. Which for me looks more relaxing for reading. Text contrast seems sufficient. Also in your examples, the flashing of the screen looks minimum, but that depends on the contents of course. The RM Pro bigger screen size and the colours makes a real difference for those PDF articles. Well done review.
If you want to call it like that, great 😃 for me, reading involves 90% educational / academic content. I use e-ink devices since they exist, have imported them from China or the US for absurd amounts of money and they have been always way too small. Now they finally reach "normal" size for me ... All is relative 😁
While there are many arguments against LCD and/or AMOLED screens when it comes to productivity, that's something I would immediately agree to. Unfortunately the technology is expensive and at the end of the day we all have to balance cost vs. benefits. In this comparison the reM PP may lose for many.
These are complimentary products. An eink device is not an iPad replacement. The poster makes the point that now there is a mainstream eink device that approaches the size of the big ipad that has also a ratio of 4:3 and it is only 1.2 inches smaller. I have not thought it like that and this is indeed a smart point. The main limitation of the iPad, regardless the different technology of the screen, is that the iPad has a glass screen and a thick tip. 1) the glass is too slippery and not suitable for handwriting 2) the glass is hard and and not nice for handwriting and also very noisy 3) the tips are too thick and so they are noisy and also not good for annotating but good for drawing. 1) can be easily fixed with a good paper like mate protector 3) can be partially fixed with an aftermarket tip that recently came to market and can improve handwriting but Not noice 2) can’t improve unfortunately at all. Remarkable 1 has a plastic screen as the first Sony eink devices had and several others especially at the A4 dimension. Unfortunately remarkable pro does not follow that root but the Apple root and I am curious about the feeling of this device in that respect. Also the fact that you cannot use Wacom emr stylus is a drawback for me because you loose the versatility of being able to use many different pens. When we use paper we are able to use many different pens, pencils with different tips. Now you are tied only to one. For these reasons I personally believe that the remarkable 1 is much better than remarkable 2 and I am worried that remarkable pro could have some serious disadvantages in comparison to remarkable 1. Nevertheless, his videos are excellent because he illustrates that probably 11.8 is big enough and the colour is fundamental for academic work especially maths which I personally believe also. I was teaching my students maths using many different colours in the blackboard. Ideally, I want an eink colour device with US letter size aspect ratio and size, plastic screen and being able to use many Wacom styluses. Remarkable software and functionalities are fine and I like the simplicity of the quaderno design.
Based on videos about reMarkable Pro, I see only two disadvantages for iPad: battery life and lack of feel of writing close to paper pad. On the other hand iPad (or any other tablet) and reMarkable 2 (which is at least 200 euros cheaper) can be good complementary products. In my personal opinion reMarkable 2 is more stylish than Pro model. In terms of distraction thing, as long as you have mobile phone next to you, you never distraction free anyway.
@@aliakseiivanov7923 battery life not so much because when you have WiFi on my remarkable one has battery life for one day or two almost like my iPad. The glass is problem for iPad I am not sure if is a problem for remarkable pro as well!!! Remarkable 1, Fujitsu Quaderno and some other 13.3 devises have plastic screens as well. Not having Wacom is an additional issue of concern for me regarding the remarkable pro. But if I had to choose and keep only one device unfortunately I would choose iPad Pro 13. I cannot live without my iPad but I really crave for a proper colour and big eink device.
You are talking to my soul with these videos. Thank you so much. You have the best videos in you tube regarding these devices that can be used for higher academic purposes. I am bit fed up seeing videos about using these devices for reading comics books mainly. This is the future for our children for advancing learning and academic achievement. It is quite a technological achievement nowadays that you can have the equivalent of the library of Alexandria in 525 grams…another comment is that my iPad Pro has such a set up that is distraction free device like my remarkable exactly because was bought as an learning tool. Not sure about the synchronisation thing as well between remarkable 1 or 2 and pro when there is much difference in storage and in case you have a book library in excess of 8 gb. You addressed most of my main concerns about this device but I am still concerned about the writing feeling in glass and the lack of emr Wacom stylus for full versatility. In any case my remarkable pro is on order.
Spot on! I'm I'm in education and placing these devices in the school system as opposed to Chromebooks or ipad would make a huge difference in learning!!
I wish newspapers like NYTimes could be delivered to the remarkable automatically every day
There are a couple of open-source community projects going on, but they are not yet updated for the new device or outdated because of API changes. I have tried today to get this up and running, but I could only get a NYTimes extract from an RSS feed into a PDF, but not yet uploaded to the device. But there are options to achieve this ... Just requires some hacking :-)
The refresh thing: WIth the RMPP, the remarkable team made different zones refreshable instead of the whole page. So you draw in a color, it refreshes, so it sets that line with the color, and allows you to draw over it, dither in other colors, etc. Otherwise the refresh would be the whole page, after every line. I believe its the only e-ink tablet that does zone refreshes vs full page/scheduled refreshes.
Thanks, I understand that, but it seems that only the strike itself is refreshed. And refreshes could be delayed (with a risk of increasing artifacts). But in this case? Still, I can live with it, but it may annoy some.
@@Artellico Hey So just adding onto what @bhappychap has said. When you take a look at other tablets with the Gallery 3 color display-in particularly the Bigme Galy. When you write on that screen you'll notice that the color doesn't refresh, however, you will also notice that because it doesn't refresh the color isn't accurate and it also leads to a lot of ghosting which looks like yellow stains. On the Bigme Galy you do get the option to manually refresh, but it is a full page refresh. So with remarkable paper pro, only the colored writing goes through a refresh to decrease the frequency of ghosting and to get a more accurate color to appear. I personally don't find it distracting and I don't believe it is a big deal. The device does have a pricey tag but people have to understand no one is being forced to purchase the device and you also get 100 days to return it. I also don't believe this can be called "Remarkable 3" as its main focus isn't to improve on what the remarkable 2 has done and has to offer, but rather give you a more premium experience of the software that already runs on the remarkable 2.
Thanks for another great review. I wish the camera zoomed in more closely on the text on RMPP when you click the contrast filter. I can tell something definitely happened, but am unsure of the exact change.
Thanks for such a helpful review. I'd be interested to know whether the highlighting of the text becomes misplaced if you change from portrait to landscape view (without making any other adjustments).
The landscape mode is not available for ePubs, as they reflow anyway given the settings of font size and alignment. You can only change the PDFs to landscape mode (including all handwritten notes) which makes sense for screen sharing and PDFs with small text which does not reflow.
If not mistaken, the color pigments on each “cell” are chosen by a delay of the particles moving between the charged poles, so they move the white to the bottom and all colors on top (black) and then try to move by the fast switching to pick the right color, but this is prone to a color ghosting of the gallery screen, those claimed yellow ghosting effects, so that refresh should be a way to ensure higher fidelity. But I bet that remarkable is going to be quite clear about it in the future as this is a very new technique.
Many thanks, sounds logical to me. I can live with the flickering. Despite some of the critical voices, I do really enjoy reading documents / books with colorful graphics / images, but it may have some tradeoffs.
Did you notice this point from your testing : reading or writing on the RM PP for some time, on particular page, while not disabling or keep the screen turned on - then some period of not touching the device, say 5minutes OR 10minutes, and then if pressing on the device , next page or something , the screen simply does not respond , I mean , there is some period of "freeze", after those previous period of inactivity?
Difficult to answer, I sometimes have a "no-response swipe" in any phase of using the device. I usually try again with more pressure and it works. My finger skin is usually quite dry, so maybe not enough electrical contact to activate the touch response.
But perhaps also the issue you mentioned. So far, nothing critical for me. On the other hand, I had twice a freeze overnight, when turning on in the morning. On/off button worked, but there was no way to get touch working. And then, of course, no pin could be typed in, I ended up in a forced reboot. This should not happen, I hope that this just a minor bug in the release version of the software. I guess the first updates will come out soon.
Can you only annotate content made on the device? Does it allow downloading and annotation of books? Or is it just PDFs that can be annotated?
No any file can be annotated. I will show in my next video.
thank you. im a new scriber to your channel.
Thank you for including the musical score. This is my main reason for wanting an e-ink device, and it is not considered by most reviewers as a use case. However I understand from your video that annotations don't resize with the original, so if I annotated the score, and then resized it, that the annotations wouldn't also resize? That makes it completely unusable for music unfortunately, as the placement of the annotations is even more critical than your example with highlighting. And resizing before making annotations would not always be practical, I don't think.
Please what is the name of the 2nd chrome extension?
It's called rePub: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/repub/blkjpagbjaekkpojgcgdapmikoaolpbl
It’s interesting about the refresh - the Bigme Galy (also Gallery 3 screen) doesn’t do the separate refresh. Instead it waits for the next scheduled full screen refresh. I would prefer this to the way the rMPP does it.
I think this could be an overall slow down, which reMarkable wanted to avoid.
I don’t think so - the rMPP way is actually slower (albeit the “zone refresh” doesn’t stop you writing elsewhere, it can be distracting though) compared to the Bigme.
Do I understand something incorrectly, or does 11.8 - 10.3 equal to 1.5, not 1.2?
As for the highlighter snapping - this indeed could be done. But the problem still persists for other drawings, handwritten notes and doodling. It may be hard if not impossible to connect those to a specific word or paragraph even. So maybe that's why they didn't implement it.
Yes :-) But I compared the reM PP to the iPad Pro, which is - from my point of view - the closest device especially for readers of academic papers.
@@Artellico So I misunderstood this one. Thanks for clarifying. 😉
This "post-rendering" (for example, for Blue) is strange...But it is somehow reminding me the "Full Refresh" button and "automatic Full Refresh" on Boox or other devices (than RM). As you have also mentioned, when we draw in Blue or Red, during drawing until we lift the stylus, we Do see already the line in Blue or Red, and when we lift the stylus, those "post-rendering" simply flickering the same line, which is already Blue or Red, into again the same Blue or Red : ) This kinda has no sense from the aside...but maybe it has some technical sense for RM - but honestly - why would you do that (that "post-rendering" that way... ), Remarkable ??? :)
Great info. It shows clearly that the music page looks great on RM Pro. Another reviewer said the opposite and didn't show examples. This solves it. Also nice to discover you can show web pages on the RM Pro translated via this web plugin via the firefox browser. I have a calibrated PC screen and you can clearly see the slightly warmer background color of RM Pro screen. Which for me looks more relaxing for reading. Text contrast seems sufficient. Also in your examples, the flashing of the screen looks minimum, but that depends on the contents of course. The RM Pro bigger screen size and the colours makes a real difference for those PDF articles. Well done review.
Because of the size, this has become a digital whiteboard instead of notebook
If you want to call it like that, great 😃 for me, reading involves 90% educational / academic content. I use e-ink devices since they exist, have imported them from China or the US for absurd amounts of money and they have been always way too small. Now they finally reach "normal" size for me ... All is relative 😁
Still, Ipad costs the same as reMarkable Paper Pro. Not sure ink tablet should be at price level of fully functional Apple tablet.
While there are many arguments against LCD and/or AMOLED screens when it comes to productivity, that's something I would immediately agree to. Unfortunately the technology is expensive and at the end of the day we all have to balance cost vs. benefits. In this comparison the reM PP may lose for many.
These are complimentary products. An eink device is not an iPad replacement. The poster makes the point that now there is a mainstream eink device that approaches the size of the big ipad that has also a ratio of 4:3 and it is only 1.2 inches smaller. I have not thought it like that and this is indeed a smart point. The main limitation of the iPad, regardless the different technology of the screen, is that the iPad has a glass screen and a thick tip. 1) the glass is too slippery and not suitable for handwriting 2) the glass is hard and and not nice for handwriting and also very noisy 3) the tips are too thick and so they are noisy and also not good for annotating but good for drawing. 1) can be easily fixed with a good paper like mate protector 3) can be partially fixed with an aftermarket tip that recently came to market and can improve handwriting but Not noice 2) can’t improve unfortunately at all. Remarkable 1 has a plastic screen as the first Sony eink devices had and several others especially at the A4 dimension. Unfortunately remarkable pro does not follow that root but the Apple root and I am curious about the feeling of this device in that respect. Also the fact that you cannot use Wacom emr stylus is a drawback for me because you loose the versatility of being able to use many different pens. When we use paper we are able to use many different pens, pencils with different tips. Now you are tied only to one. For these reasons I personally believe that the remarkable 1 is much better than remarkable 2 and I am worried that remarkable pro could have some serious disadvantages in comparison to remarkable 1. Nevertheless, his videos are excellent because he illustrates that probably 11.8 is big enough and the colour is fundamental for academic work especially maths which I personally believe also. I was teaching my students maths using many different colours in the blackboard. Ideally, I want an eink colour device with US letter size aspect ratio and size, plastic screen and being able to use many Wacom styluses. Remarkable software and functionalities are fine and I like the simplicity of the quaderno design.
Based on videos about reMarkable Pro, I see only two disadvantages for iPad: battery life and lack of feel of writing close to paper pad. On the other hand iPad (or any other tablet) and reMarkable 2 (which is at least 200 euros cheaper) can be good complementary products. In my personal opinion reMarkable 2 is more stylish than Pro model. In terms of distraction thing, as long as you have mobile phone next to you, you never distraction free anyway.
@@aliakseiivanov7923 battery life not so much because when you have WiFi on my remarkable one has battery life for one day or two almost like my iPad. The glass is problem for iPad I am not sure if is a problem for remarkable pro as well!!! Remarkable 1, Fujitsu Quaderno and some other 13.3 devises have plastic screens as well. Not having Wacom is an additional issue of concern for me regarding the remarkable pro. But if I had to choose and keep only one device unfortunately I would choose iPad Pro 13. I cannot live without my iPad but I really crave for a proper colour and big eink device.
That refresh is terrible. Outdated tech
Gallery 3 ist die aktuelle Farb-eInk-Technologie. Was haben Sie denn neueres zu bieten, etwas aus der Glaskugel?