so there were a bunch of comments on the remarkable paper pro video I did asking
me to take a look at another eink tablet the supern note Manta and frankly I'm
glad that you made me do it this thing seems pretty interesting it's kind of
wacky it's a modular tablet it's
repairable we'll get into that it's got funny kind of touch bars on the side
that we're going to take a look at and it's running a slightly more open
version of Android than you might see on some other eink tablets on the market
meaning you can side load things you can sync whatever you want that's exciting
and I'm also excited that this video is sponsored by Opera but we'll tell you
more about that later don't worry about it all right here we go uh we'll put
that there okay also in here
we we have oh it it's a screwdriver and
I thought for a second that was a stylus but it's not and you can tell because I
am not a pen screws for pen Loop
replacement why do we need pen Loop replacement oh are they different sizes
they're different sizes for different pens because one thing about this that I
was going to say later but I guess I'll say now is that the supernote will work
with a large variety of pens because it's unpowered it uses a ceramic bit
thing we'll get into it I promise I have to say this is the unboxing experience
with the most amount of things in here that I don't I don't even know what they
are what what is this is this oh is this like a leather oh it says on it cutable
pen Loop okay so you got two other sizes
of the elastic ones and then you can make your own
DIY that's the whole theme Here guys and
then of course the USBC cord in the Middle with a right angle connector you
love to see it one meter they're always one meter so obviously on the front here
we have the 10.7 in screen it's got a 1920x 2560 resolution or 300 PPI and for
the E Inc enthusiasts out there this is a Carta 1300 uh display so just yeah I
know also on the front display we have these lines on the side which are touch
sensitive on the top here we have the USBC port on the left side and a power
button on the right side uh in these little divots that uh supernote I guess
is saying that those evoke the the kind
of mandibles of the uh manta ray on the
right side we got nothing except the the
uh aforementioned pen loop on the bottom
another whole whack of nothing and on
the left side things get interesting we've got some pins for the attachments
on the back though is where things get really juicy Okay so we've got these two
Torx screws that uh we can take out if we want to replace that pen Loop we've
got four rubberized feet which make it
so that when you're drawing it's not going to move so much yeah it's got grip
okay we'll do the folio we'll do the folio now I like their whole uh
aesthetic here it just makes me feel taken care of I like when a product when
you start using it and it's like hey we thought about these things all right we
got you that's how it feels opening up and seeing a thoughtfully designed panel
like this so you line those up with the holes and just click it
in oh not much of an audible click but
it goes in and that's
it's not coming off they only have the half folio and they don't have another
option that could protect the back which you'd think that you would want uh given
that you have this easily uh removable
panel which I haven't removed yet it is nice and thin and you're protecting your
screen but just be aware that there isn't a at least a first-party option
for a full back protection as well pull
that in it okay well it's
solid and that was the half folio now
before we get to anything else I want to see how you take the back off because
that's the whole thing here okay the way that they do it in the video is they pop
up one side like so and then they kind of go along and they just kind of push
it in until it pops up yeah yeah there you go that then that takes the whole
thing off this module right here is the
S so so this is basically the you know
the computer that's inside this is the battery and then there's a Micro SD slot
here as well this thing comes with 32 gigs of storage which you know isn't a
ton in the year 2025 and you can expand it if you want so that's pretty DEC it
appears that there are these torque screws all around the edges of this uh
assembly that look like if you remove those you could take the screen out um
because there are more specific screws for the S so module here three screws
holding the battery in and on this side it's held in by a little tab I can see
right now on their website they only have replacement parts for these so it's
not like you can go and get a bigger battery or a more powerful processor and
swap it in as of now maybe that'll change in the future regardless it's a
huge win to have a device like this on the market that is fully repairable and
like openable I feel like every time I use an eing tablet it's like somebody
like you know deaking me out or something it's like oh it's turning on
and it's like but then it just does like a whole screen flash refresh and I'm
like oh what what's going on it's like ah no not yet okay A little touch little
touch pad here that you're not going to show cuz it'll reveal the password I
like how they've word this I am willing to
participate I'm not willing I like to see that this tablet basically has like
keyboard shortcuts without the keyboard you're going to be drawing something I
didn't like that undo we'll see one finger slide down do
it oh and then tap to create a new note okay see a tutorial flash back to the
what was it big me ink note color it's like throwing me into the deep end full
of sharks and sea urchins no even clicking the home button won't take me
away from offline books how do I just go back to the apps I don't know start
handwriting can I write with my finger no it knows it knows that I'm using my
finger and it's ashamed so this is the supernote pen never never wears out
never surrenders 0.7 mm ultra fine nib
496 levels of pressure sensitivity which of course you got and it never needs to
be charged because as I said there's no battery inside and the nibs thing is
interesting because you know the remarkable paper Pro other iing tablets
they have these replaceable nibs and you run out as they kind of degrade but this
one and supernotes other pens that are usable with this thing use ceramic tips
and they don't theg grade BTW in case you forgot Pen's mightier than the
sword so we've got some warnings here that uh you know tell you that it's got
a high hardness tip which is only suitable for the screen surface of this
tablet this exact model is the Lamy
Safari Vista EMR pen uh it's one of four
pens that they currently have on their website including the heart of metal pen
too heart of metals revenge and they have a push-up pen which seems cool we
can get that for next time but perhaps the coolest one is the Lami Safari twin
EMR pen which is both a ceramic stylus
and can you can switch it to a real ballpoint pen this is one of the
weirdest styluses I've ever seen first of all it's got this like fancy pen lid
that looks like it's from a real pen and then this if you told me this was a real
like ballpoint pen I'd believe you and you can actually unscrew it and take out
the ceramic core that feels like you
know oh this would be an ink refill except it's not it's just a ceramic
thing that goes in the middle oh wow yeah I feel the give the remarkable
paper too and some other iank tablets
that I've checked out as well as like some um you can get screen protectors
for iPads and stuff with like a paper feel they feel more like paper the
supernote is trying to go for p pen on
paper pen on a pad of paper feel and they have succeeded also it's it's got
give the display is supposed to deform the the nib also goes in I'm going to
use the erase function two fingers on that bar and draw around it and boom so
there's another two finger gesture if you do two fingers not on the sidebar
but on the screen itself and draw around an item it'll select it you can make it
bigger or small smaller can you move it around yes look at this can you see that
there's ghosting on the display see all those little white lines that's where
that shortcut for refreshing the page comes in you can just do that and now the ghosting is gone oh I didn't like
that one undo oh just kidding I liked it
redo bring it back there's also a more traditional eraser oh this will erase
just like little lines on something if you want just erase a little bit I
stumbled upon another one of the features which is that you can select
things and make it a heading there's various different heading Styles you can
select from any headings you create you can go over here and see oh there's that
heading so if you have headings in multiple documents or whatever you can
go and Skip to sections that you've designated that's pretty nice but you
also have stars and keywords which are
sort of similar uh with the Stars you just have to draw a star and it'll have
it be a bookmark oh oh how long has it
been since I actually had to draw one it worked you get a
star and then if I go here it'll be
right there it knows I put a star there so we figured out that in order to make
use of the real time OCR you have to make a new note and then create it as a
realtime recognition type note uh it will support searching your
handwriting and exporting it it'll be a bit faster but it'll increase power
consumption because it's constantly scanning what you're doing belle look
Belle yeah that's the a with the I yes I
kept thinking you were talking about AI okay cool it recognized my Oh I thought
I said Bush Apple at some point that's something entirely different here I'll
say re-recognize my text try again no
it's still thinks it's Bush that's on me so it is real-time recognition but if
you got a lot of pages to go through it might take a little bit this isn't like
the fastest processor in here it's an RK
3566 processor which you know it's not a
it's no Snapdragon if you're into like sketching and stuff there's some other
ink uh tablets that promise to emulate
the feel of like pencil on paper this one is a bit more like pens so it's a
little bit more geared towards taking notes with the optical character
recognition and all that stuff links to
uh other documents which I'm going to talk about right now now actually there
isn't really a home screen like I mentioned earlier I like there being a
home screen if it's like an Android device it's familiar there's not that
here but with their linking ability I've
seen some people create sort of Interlink documents that function sort
of as home screens that kind of link to
other things so watch this I'm going to select this you can link to another page
in the same file that you're in or you can link to another file okay okay so I
just made this squiggle link to a web page it's going
to open it that is a uh a chunky refresh
rate so it's got this USBC Port they say
that you can just plug in flash drives or external storage or whatever anyone
who is familiar with this platform probably saw this coming but I just
figured out that you have to install Android platform tools and do some uh do
some more technical stuff than we're prepared to do on this ShortCircuit so
side loing is definitely not as simple as I thought it was they said you could
install a or just plug in a flash drive
but you can use a flash drive and external storage if you have like a
document format that's ready to use on here like a PDF or a UB or something now
despite the disappointing ending to that side loing Saga there is an advantage
here uh in that it officially supports a
number of cloud services that you can just log into and sync with uh which is
already a lot easier than the remarkable
paper Pro which has the Chrome extension apparently and you can like just go to a
web page and send it to it but this one makes it a lot easier to send things
from the tablet somewhere else so I guess that's another way in which this
device differentiates itself from other tablets that might be a little bit more
geared towards drawing as opposed to note taking
if when you're when you're sketching and stuff on a paperlike tablet you're not
going to export that to something else because it's just rough work it's like
ideation this is also ideation but it's more text based and you can export it
you can sync it with your cloud services and you can even turn it from your
handwriting into text which is going to be easier for other people to deal with
and easier for you to deal with on your like computer or something accessing
Google Drive now the supernote Manta is $460
this pen is $90 although they have some slightly cheaper options and the half
folio is $60 so if you want that full
setup uh you know it's not going to be super cheap that said it does work with
other styluses so if you have other styluses with ceramic tips you can just
use that instead of buying a new one it doesn't have some of the niceties like
the front light and color however it does give you a little bit more
flexibility in how you want to use it uh company like remarkable wants you to
use the tablet in the way that they want you to use it it will allow you to
repair the device if anything happens to it and to me that is like one of the
coolest things about it is just the fact that we have another
company deciding to be a little less cynical about you know the kind of cycle
of uh consumerism that we get into with these products like instead of just
forcing you to buy a new thing when something something
breaks you know they're giving you that option and I feel like we need more
companies to do that so thank you super
note for being inspired by the manta ray
and making a tablet that is basically indistinguishable from one as far as I'm
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uh if you're looking for something else to watch eink paper related and it will
give some context to this go watch my video on the remarkable paper Pro