have you ever wanted a less convenient e-reader that you can write on while
introducing yakindo squibe it is the
first Kindle you can write on it comes with a stylus comes with a stylus not
like the remarkable where you have to buy it separately which was 50 US
dollars but now is like 80 or something fact check that 70 or 80. so the one
that we got has 16 gigabytes of storage that is the minimum that compared to
eight gigabytes on the remarkable 2. to be fairly remarkable too it's pretty old
at this point and then we bought the premium pen which is 30 more the
difference of the premium pen is that it has a shortcut on it so you can switch
between pen highlighter and eraser and I think that's actually a has an eraser on
the back excellent why can't I just pull
this out it's so it just looks easy but
it's not Hollow it's like a little file folder inside there with these little
sections I'm trying to pull on them can't do it
I think this was meant to be like this but someone got there first oh
was there a squirrel in here what is this was my wife here seriously like
trying to pour a bowl of cereal with a box that she opened it's just like goes
everywhere it's coming out the side just unbelievable no amount of conversations
about it will change your behavior either you just I just think I have to
live with this is the tablet itself we're gonna set that aside but I have
comments looks like a little quick setup guide for Australian customers
this is going to be a selection of replacement tips for the stylus let's
see yeah it opens that way oh what's this ring thing just can't not
make it lower the Rings reference the remarkables um replacement tips had a
cool thing where there was a little slider in here to help you remove the
tip on the existing tip installed on your stylus I don't know how to get this
out just pull is there such a thing on here is that what this is for oh I put
it in pinch ha metal I guess I can't just stab it on
like I could with a remarkable setup you just put it in like this
there we go pen tricks yeah I can do them what else is there anything else in
there no we got a little charger here
uh another charger it's USB a to c and
there's a c charging port
right speaking of uh there's a button over
here is this that's like the uh yeah that's the lock sort of button kind of
weird to have the charger is it weird to have the charger over there it's kind of
sticking out the bottom if you go in landscape mode but I feel like the
default would be portrait so maybe it would be
over there but I can see why they would want everything on the same side but
that's the engineer's problem that shouldn't be my problem yeah this is clearly the default look at there's the
logo I don't know it doesn't really matter because you charge these so sell
them they advertise the battery is lasting weeks it depends if you're just
reading or writing depends if you have Wi-Fi on or off but I mean I have had
times where I'm reading with this thing plugged in because like you just don't use it for a month and you want to go
read on your lunch break or something I think it's more forgivable than on a
phone or even a a tablet like an iPad or
an Android tablet because you you just plug in so sell them with these also has
these little feet which is kind of weird they're not really in the way of your
fingers when you're holding it in any kind of reasonable way even if I put it
into my palm I just can't feel it makes it non-slip on the table and there's no
rocking and it's not getting scuff up the back so I guess they're appreciated
I wonder I feel like some someone fought for those to be on here other people
were like you're crazy but we'll let you have this one it's very thin I would say
it's it's like less than a quarter inch thick it's definitely it has a thicker
kind of spine on this one side seems like that's a kind of cool place to hold
it but it actually might make it harder to change to turn pages I'll try that in
a little bit definitely gonna be bigger than your typical Cheapo tablet so you
know if you've got bad eyesight you can really get in the zone here let's turn
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countries alright let's start with notebooks that's the difference with
these right so by tapping the plus icon
where's that up here you can also add folders to keep your notebooks organized
and your notes your notes can be multiple pages okay so templates you got
blank you got regular lined there's different graphing people oh that's like
a spreadsheet one interesting I'm gonna go with uh this big fat learn how to
write take notes on your Kindle to turn the page swipe anywhere or use the
pointer tool to tap the sides of screen okay so that just like uh other
e-readers the screen is divided into regions and so tapping like this third
will like Turn the page that way tapping this one turn it that way writing tools
there's three writing tools there's just pen highlighter and eraser but there are
different sizes or girths if you will of
the pens undo and redo very standard
stuff can I just swipe new page see my
little my little thing went away we're back and if I hit my pen do I get
different there we go five gradations let's go fine because you are
so fine I don't know why I wrote that speed wise it feels pretty good I
remember when I used the remarkable when you draw a line like that and lift off
you can see your stroke complete once you've already lifted off the page the
latency was improved for remarkable too there is still some bit of a lag but I
think that this screen is probably a bit clearer it's the same Clarity that you
see on the other entries in the lineup it's about 300 PPI let's see what I can
do with shading though because on the remarkable the tip understands it when
it's tilted and will kind of draw a little differently
no that is like the exact same stroke it doesn't matter I oh do I have an eraser
on here heck yeah it shows you is that like a
preview of a racing you can see what's going to be erased and then it like
actually erases after see how the lines of the page are more visible after I
lift off it's not a feature of bugs kind of bizarre I want to check out the how
light you can draw because that was one
of the things on remarkable you couldn't do a very very light stroke without it
cutting out being like a dotted line yeah you kind of get there's a limit you
can see that's like becoming a broken line or it's just not even doing
anything right now I'm just gliding on the glass I don't seem to be able to do
any kind of like different lightness or like strength of
of shading but I guess that's I guess that's not what their target is for this
they just want you to be able to write little construction layouts and
quick math notes and stuff now where am I supposed to put this pen I think
there's a magnetic side somewhere there it is that's on there pretty good to a
decent degree the cool thing about this pen you don't need to charge it at all how does that work whoa there's a dark
mode what does that look like
okay that's cool it's kind of just the photo negative I appreciate that there
are 16 different gradations of of gray levels on this tablet so that actually
makes it useful for not just reading books but you can read comic books
because there's going to be some grayscale there obviously it's not
color um but it definitely makes it more
feature Rich and usable let's see if this button is worth thirty dollars
click what am I shortcutting two
still not highlighting do I have to map it or something one thing that's cool
with this screen is you can actually change the color temperature of it which
is something they have on their other Kindle like paper whites and stuff so
you can go from a cool blue all the way to like orange which is nice if you're
reading in bed which you should do it's terrific you're not supposed to do that
though but you can if it's orange right and unlike the cheapest e-readers that I
always get that rely on me having a light turned on this actually has LEDs
underneath I believe there's 32 of them under the screen so because it's e-ink
you can use this completely without the LEDs being on but with those LEDs you
can read in the dark and you can adjust the brightness to their zero and
attacking like oh up to 24 which would
probably be too bright for my bedroom the thing that's cool is that you don't
need like a super amount of brightness to be able to read in a in a sunny
outdoor environment because reflective screens like e-rater screens even
without LEDs they worked great in the in those environments so the brightness is
just a bonus like the other Kindles they have like a matte anti-clare kind of
finish not much to say about that this is quite satisfying what have I
drawn what is that is it a box is it a book is it pointing towards you or away
from you no one knows and shortcuts the
default is like zero like the default's nothing or no it says it's highlighter
but I couldn't get that working oh you can shortcut tool to a sticky note so
that's for when you're reading books and you want to I don't think I want to test
this in a second I don't think you can just mark up books and PDFs and stuff
but you can add sticky notes to them yes oh what the that's the I think that's
the highlighter it's not that you toggle to it you hold it down
to switch to it and then release to go back to your other pen that's what's
going on it's kind of nice though I guess that's kind of fewer actions oh
wow now it's in left-handed mode and it'll also flip like well I guess
rotate no it rotated this way before
okay it'll flip that way but not this way
fair fair enough I guess let's read some books it has all the Kindle
functionality for getting documents onto it and you can upgrade the storage from
16 gigabytes to 64. which is just huge for documents tap on the the page to
place your note exactly where you want it I rarely drag
yeah right oh handwritten what's text oh
I can just go like this it's kind of um asymmetrical because it has a wider
bezel in this this hand so it kind of it's offsetting where you're holding
that keyword which is a little bit weird what if I flip it this way will it
rotate now this only rotates 180. so
frustrating I think I honestly would be just better off going like this
can you see what I wrote they don't have auto correct they don't have autocorrect
I guess brutal so that's the sticky notes what if I use my shortcut and then
tap or I hold it while tapping there it is tap it while hold what about
highlighting though can't I take my highlighter and highlight on the page
that sucks is that so stupid I could see
that there would be technical hurdles that you would have to accomplish if you
wanted to be able to just mark up any document that you brought onto your
Kindle like they might have to make a completely new file like a kind of a
daughter file to save alongside of your
books and stuff like that I could see why you wouldn't be able to mark up that file directly in it like Steve Jobs
would have figured that out and they didn't figure that out so it feels kind
of like an incomplete product you would expect that like the purest form of a
Kindle you can write on would be highlighting stuff like this instead of
swiping uh writing in the margins like the sticky notes is cool too but I want
to be able to mark this up like a pen on a damn book and I can not only that you
can't even use sticky notes on manga magazines or newspapers so at that point
you just have a big Kindle you know what would be nice if you could map the back
button to the pen because it's kind of annoying to have to swipe down or go
back that way what other settings do we have in here warmth schedule so you can
actually change whether the LED is blue
or orange according to a schedule so I'll turn that on you can set time
yourself or you can have it time to the sunrise and stuff I guess your the
schedule you're setting is just like what time do you want this brightness to be active oh but then
you need to allow that location access down that makes that makes sense it
couldn't just be a drop down menu I just picked Vancouver like time zone or
something no but we'll just take the data instead display size
there's just two options big and less big I thought there would be like a
sliding scale it's not that much bigger but yeah send me send me a PDF and we'll
see if I can write on it using the email below that's what you
want okay uh can I mark this up yes I
can write on a PDF thank God and can I
write a sticky note on this I can highlight I can erase I don't know
what this hand is still I think we figured out what the hand tool is so if
I'm in here writing I'm just drawing but if I turn my pen into a hand and I swipe
now I've turned the page and if I tab up here now I get that so turn your pen
into a finger another way to do this is to go like this
or if you got two of these which is quite a privilege go that way
doesn't even work okay that's page one I think it's a decent product I think that
the remarkable two is Superior in some
ways though it is older it looks just as cool and premium it looks a little
different than this it has some features that this could stand to gain although
you are up against Amazon's you know the whole Kindle ecosystem and you know
buying a book on Amazon and just sending it directly to your Kindle all that
stuff is really cool but in terms of the drawing
um I don't think they're that different and remarkable has some drawing features
that are cool and it's like 20 bucks cheaper at this point if you get the
basic pen on that one but being a newer device
um this seems a bit faster although it's not that fast
and it has more storage which is cool I
don't think this is too unreal unruly or unreasonable to use as an e-reader the
remarkable's probably I think it seems a little bigger and is kind of stupider as
an e-reader you could still easily take this along uh in your bag or in your
suitcase on a trip but you're not gonna put it in like a jacket pocket or easily
have it on like on the bus or something like that if you have any bag with you
you're good to go yeah one thing I wanted to try though is what the Turning
of pages is like when you're holding it in your left hand because it seems like
it it affords left hand holding since it's thicker on this side that's going
forward I think that's okay unless you're the type who likes to tap but why
not swipe it's a world of swipes we live in when you go from the 300 for the
remarkable two plus at least eighty dollars for the pen you got 380 whereas
the opening price for this is 340. now
this is kind of a good fidget toy so who should get this should you get this instead of a cheap Android tablet really
depends on your focus if if you really want it for the note-taking and the
reading probably would just go for this you can do those things on an Android
tablet and you can do a lot more as well but they're not going to be as Sleek
they're not gonna have the battery life you're not gonna be able to read
Outdoors as easily so I don't think this is a bad product by any means so thanks
for watching guys if you like this video maybe check out the remarkable coverage
we've done we also had Sarah host a video on one of these e-screen drawables
too so check that one out