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Posted by washere
Feb 26, 2018 at 10:38 PM
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cosmicpie.spacetodolist
Posted by Paul Korm
Feb 27, 2018 at 11:05 AM
Circle of technology life. My first laptop was an IBM with a small black and white display and a massive 20 Mb hard drive. That’s not a typo!
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>I’m using a similar computer display http://www.dasung.com/english/
>which, like the Oaxis InkCase mentioned above, is clearly intended as a
>secondary display.
Posted by Hugh
Feb 27, 2018 at 03:58 PM
Paul Korm wrote:
Circle of technology life. My first laptop was an IBM with a small
>black and white display and a massive 20 Mb hard drive. That’s not a
>typo!
>
My first Toshiba was similar, except the display as I recall was blue and white. It ran WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3, cost around £2,000 and seemed miraculous - but aarrgh! it was heavy.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 28, 2018 at 10:19 AM
Oh yes, the joys of the Toshiba 1000 something-or-other! I remember writing an entire user guide with columns, sidebars and illustrations on one of those in WordPerfect 5.2. Those were the days!
Posted by dan7000
Mar 1, 2018 at 01:35 AM
xtabber wrote:
>
>Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
>
>>There is currently such a great selection of thin and light Android,
>IOS
>>and Windows tablets, with beautiful IPS color displays, long battery
>>life, stylus, similar pricing, etc, that I fail to see any reasons to
>>choose a black and white e-ink device…
>>I guess until you’ve tried it, you don’t see its usefulness, and I
>>admit, I’ve never tried these devices.
>
>E-ink provides an experience more like reading print on paper than from
>a screen, and like print, is best suited for static page views and
>bright lighting. It is also much easier on the eyes.
>
>For most people, one tablet serves all needs. I spend a lot of time
>reading and prefer separate devices for different situations. Mostly I
>use a couple of Android tablets with high-res OLED screens, but I also
>have a Kindle Paperwhite, and when it is a valid option, I use it to
>reduce eye strain.
>
I’ve long been a consumer of various e-ink displays. The sole reason I want them is to read and/or work outside in bright sunlight. I live in California and if I can’t do my work while sitting on the beach I might as well move back to Minnesota :)
E-ink is really terrific in bright sunlight. No LED comes even close. I cannot work on my laptop in direct sunlight. The iphone was readable in direct sunlight, but you still had to squint. E-ink is like a paperback. Direct sunlight is where it really shines [sorry :(].
Alas, whenever I buy one of these things I have dreams of spending my days drafting complex documents on the beach, or at least annotating PDFs on the deck of my boat. But none of them have ever been functional enough to realize that dream, for the following reasons:
1. The screen refresh is noticeably long and it always will be. From what I understand it is an inherent limitation of the technology. Flipping pages while reading a novel is fine but quickly scanning through a huge PDF is impossible and frustrating.
2. It turns out that when I view a PDF on any screen, I almost always adjust the zoom often. Generally the default display either shows the whole page so I can’t read it or shows up at a huge magnification so I have to constantly scroll. When I finish a page, I find myself zooming out and then skipping forward to whatever I want to read next and then adjusting zoom again. I literally did not realize I do this until I started reading PDFs on an e-ink reader, where the slow refresh makes pinch-to-zoom a laughably horrible experience.
3. Refresh problems also make typing difficult. You need the immediate feedback of seeing the screen button pressed down or the letter icon pop up to know you have correctly pressed the soft key. Even this little animation is painfully slow on e-ink so typing is frustrating. You can type ahead and wait for the buffer to catch up, but then you are stuck with backtracking to fix mistakes.
4. No 4G on almost all of these.
5. On the Onyx, WiFi turns off after only 1 minute of idle time, presumably to save battery life, so you have to constantly turn it back on.
On the plus side, the Onyx that I have now runs full Android and most apps work really well. Of course with the refresh problem web browsing is not fun but I have the Kindle App, FoxIt PDF, Chrome, a Calendar app, etc.
Some of the above issues, especially #2, are a problem with my cheapness. I never really believe in these things so I buy whatever I can find off ebay. I have had a couple chinese off brands. I owned an early sony. Now I have an onyx, but it’s only the 6”. I am DYING to buy the remarkable despite the fact that I know I will just be disappointed. But as soon as people are selling them on ebay I’m sure I’ll have one.