These are e-ink tablets, mostly for e-reading and note-taking but they also run Android. I'm extremely interested but not enough to spend $500 on one sight unseen. Anyone have experience with one yet?
Also saw an ad on Facebook for "e-pad" which is a competitor that is currently running a kickstarter, if we get in now we get one for $399 (retail is like $699)... might be worth checking out since it's a much more powerful device. But only if this tech ... "works" for us.
The new competitor is here, a little short on details because it's still in "campaign" mode... but it seems to be a full-featured Android tablet that happens to have an e-ink display. This is INCREDIBLY relevant to my interests... but the Boox uses similar display tech (albeit with a slower, older processor) so I want to know how people tolerate the tech in general... and what OS the Boox runs... etc.
I worry if that new company will be able to deliver, they are under-cutting the competition pretty hard there whilst simultaneously offering better hardware. And given they are crowdfunding I am guessing they don't have much experience. For these things, I would worry more about the effort that's gone into the software programming over the hardware itself.
I had a much older non-android boox tablet and it worked fine enough as an e reader, the note taking experience wasn't great though. I also have a yotaphone 2 with the e-ink screen. As I have commented in previous threads, that thing makes me feel nauseous - I think its the fuzzy way e-ink animates movement.
Interesting find, thanks! Since yota2 e-ink side is the only mobile tech which I can use to watch videos I would me more than willing to try out anything else. I would also agree with seagull, because I also get eye strain from some e-ink devices, so it might not be problem solver for everyone.
Glad to see this progressing. e-ink is my greatest hope for the future, personally. It eliminates the backlight completely, and there is powerful incentive for smartphone manufacturers to perfect the tech since it would instantly make battery life 10 times longer than it is today.