ooh boy it's been a little while since I've taken a look at an eink tablet I
think the last time I looked at it was March
2023 and I think that things have developed a little bit since then there
was no such thing as a remarkable paper pro at that time but now there is
there's been the remarkable remarkable 2 and now the remarkable paper Pro I
didn't actually do them remarkables I did the other things I did some bookses
I did the boooks boooks
I have more to say about boooks but I'll save my remarks for later here we go so
the remarkable paper Pro is the latest
you know Flagship model from this company remarkable who is serious about
wanting to bring paper back in a big way
make paper fun again and they are more
serious now than ever we've got upgraded
features color e Inc screen a backlight
situation a bunch of stuff to go over but first I
want to take a look at what's in the box along with what is in these other boxes
there's so many boxes going on okay we got the
USB-C cord ooh a flat cord I always love
a flat cord documentation I just want to
take a moment actually because this says the blank page awaits and I feel like
this is the vibe with remarkable even
more so than the other companies that make e in tablets it seems like they are
like very very serious about this like the importance of the paper based
experience the paper based workflow which really doesn't exist except for in
like a small Niche okay now wait if I'm not mistaken there's supposed to be a
marker in here is there not but I guess we have the marker plus so when you
order it with the marker plus they don't they don't bother giving you the worse
marker which makes sense okay I'll look at the marker plus after I look at the
tablet itself I've I've neglected you for long enough remarkable ooh I feel
like no matter what you think about the practicality of eink tablets I feel like
the last few that I've taken a look at they all do a really good job of having
this premium feel I mean like look at that that's nice it feels nice it feels
premium it feels solid it's got these nice ridges on the side that like lends
it a distinguished feel having some
texture there makes it feel less like a cheap iPad and more like a tablet of a
more refined age I feel like Obi-Wan is handing me his e-reader right now uh
there's that power button on the top there that we just saw on this side we
got I oh is that must be the magnetic mount for the marker Plus or the marker
non plus USBC charging port on the ooh
not in the center on the left side this is interesting it's got feet I guess
because oh oh oh but that's that's nice
I had never thought about that before but that makes a lot of sense especially
if you're writing on it you want it to not shift around it shifts a little bit
obviously but like look at this it doesn't want to it wants to do what it
wants to do here's the uh Pogo pin connector on the back here for the
optional
folios it looks like I'm looking at Sand
like I got I'll show I'll give you closeup but like I need to hold on a
second yeah there's like
little I know I look insane it looks like sand because there's like little
bits of color in there the marker plus is apparently different from the non
plus marker in that it has an eraser on
the back uh so you can flip it around and and and erase stuff and it is also
heavier by 4 G I like the weight to it I
feel like a lot of the time you get a stylus and it just they forget to make
it feel like an actual tool and instead of like a plastic doohickey and this
does not feel like a plastic doohickey it's got like some sort of polymer
coating with a texture it's got a flat side where you can put your finger so
that's nice also in the Box though we have extra marker tips that ooh ooh this
is I love this is a nice experience guys it's a special plastic box they made
just for the tip how do I open it though oh ooh look at this look at
this just makes me happy I'm not someone
who goes for premium stuff in my outside
of work life I would never prioritize stuff like this but while I'm unboxing
it I understand it's nice I guess you
would just stick the take the tip off and stick it in there but I'm not going
to stick it in now all right it's time to unwrap the mystery of what it's like
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shall I just had to
knock okay it's loading Oh see now you can see blue red look at these colors
okay we're going to go through the setup process before I do that I just want to
see does this go on the side oh oh that's a
lot that's very solid
solid did you see that that's what a digital paper screen refresh looks like
I'm being educated this is normal and keeps your display looking clean and sharp excellent refresh
again I like it at this point uh get the
latest software okay I got to update I guess this is already such a different
experience than the uh what was it big
big mode big big big man on campus Big
me it's called Big me in note color I
think part of my frustration with the big me was the fact that it said it ran
Android but they put this crazy custom skin on it such that it didn't act like
Android at all and so I had no idea how to work the thing meanwhile the boooks I
made fun of the name a lot but they just make straight like it's it's more it's a
more uh standard Android skin that they put on their e-readers so it was like
way usable and also it seems like that's
paid off for them I think I I see a lot of more people using boooks and talking
about is it books I want to say books I
see people using them just goes to show make me happy and you'll be happy
pairing completed activate your free
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is something that I feel like I already have thoughts about but we'll get into
this like need for a connect subscription you're good to go now that
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your subscription has been updated did you subscribe for me so the remarkable
paper Pro runs on their own Linux based
OS I believe it's called codex and uh so
I you know it's a custom distro so you I really have no idea how to navigate it
um so far we got my files can I draw
here I can okay well while I'm here I'm just going to start sketching
ooh
ooh that does
feel it's just it's just viscerally
pleasing I don't know what it is about it I'm not a big drawer guy I'm a
computer guy first and foremost I I never I'm not good at drawing I didn't
really I wasn't big on like handwritten notes although I did some of that in University but there does seem to be
some like important connection between
the physic ality of writing on a
physical thing as opposed to doing it
digitally and I'm just wondering what like why why is that you know is it
because we just that's something that we grew up with and you know subsequent
Generations aren't going to have as much experience with paper and pen and stuff
like is are these products going to die out this is beautiful but I'm going to
use the Eraser how does that work how does the Eraser feel oh you can just do
that and it'll just get rid of it from the first moment I used a tablet with
with a stylus I just instinctively wanted to flip it around and use an
eraser and I feel like that's so rarely I don't think I've ever used a stylus
with that feature I'm sure that there are some out there but to have it here
where it's so rare out there in the world is is really nice if you write
something stupid and you're like that's dumb just flip around boom boom boom
it's gone and no one has to know oh are these like just shortcuts you can have
so you can set this to a certain tool and this to another certain tool so you
don't have to go into the menu that's kind of cool the mechanical pencil doesn't have when you angle it it
doesn't do the angle as much but when you switch back to the regular pencil
you can do this shading thing this makes me want to draw maybe that's the appeal
you know for people who don't take notes really don't draw you buy one of these
you try it out and then you discover how nice it could be you don't want to
bother with all the paper and the real things the Eraser has a little bit of
give to it but like I don't know if that's like intended obviously it feels
pressure in some way but it doesn't need to have nearly the sort of pressure
sensitivity of the of the other side which you can see one thing I want to
note here is that there's only three
options for thickness so like with the pencil pushing harder just makes it like
darker it's like a real pencil if you push harder with a pencil it's not going
to be thicker if you push harder with a marker tool it'll be thicker I totally
forgot about the colors this is a color screen how many how many colors can it
do 20,000 I think is what it said swipe
to the next page complete the Box okay uh make a straight line from A to
B okay I did it draw an hold at the end of brush stroke to straighten and adjust
it oh is there an undo button yes there is that's
nice okay and hold oh that's cool so I
can be like Oh I'm bad at drawing a straight line and then I hold there boom
it goes straight next one move the square use the selection tool
to Circ Circle The
Box try to
rotate rotate yeah okay and does it snap
to the Grid it's like oh I want it to be
perfectly aligned but maybe that doesn't matter
for this I don't know how many people are going to be using this kind of
device for like professional finished
product creating I think this kind of device is really more meant to be used
for the ideation phase sketching planning I don't know if you're going to
be like drawing a picture on here that you're going to export to like publish
on your website unless you want it to look like a sketch whereas I think if
you wanted to use it like something like like a like a waycom tablet or something
you would want that quick exporting you'd be want to be able to work on
something here and throw it to your computer and boom um so I don't think
this is going to be like the same use case as that convert handwriting to text
I'm sure that's my life gives you lemons make rocket
fuel huh it put it over there for some reason
I'm moving on another thing about the marker plus that Bell points out here is
that you can only use either the new
marker or the marker plus with the remarkable paper Pro you can't use the
old remarkable uh styluses markers and you
can't use third party ones either now this here is the share screen and this
brings me to something that I want to talk about because one criticism that
has been levied at remarkable is in their pursuit of this sort of focused
strategy if you do anything on here you draw something you make notes you can
only get it off by basically emailing it
to yourself you can import things
through the app on mobile and Des Des
toop swipe from oh okay oh backlight the
backlight is all the way on can we turn things off for a second backlight off
backlight ramping Up full
backlight man this is comforting I want
to use this in the dark is that did you
make this can I zoom oh does it the colors go away while you while
you zoom hello like it can't do it while I'm zooming around
but then the color comes back let's open a Hemingway book and let's see what the
e-reading experience is like although as I you know the e-reading thing is also a
bit complicated because you can import
things via Google Drive and via the uh
remarkable remarkables apps on mobile and desktop as I said that's also how
you would get ebooks onto this device but it only supports EBS
and not ebooks that have DRM uh you know digital Rights
Management so if you want to use this
device as an e-reader you're you're you're limited to ebooks that have EB
versions without any DRM on them I can draw on it that's
disrespectful while it's really cool to have an eraser there uh I'm I'm I like
get worried uh as I feel the extra
resistance uh remarkable says that they made this
the display surface even less glossy and
more textured to feel it it feels even more like paper than their previous
tablets did which already felt like very much like paper um so it kind of it
makes me worried a little bit when I feel the resistance I I I feel like I'm
damaging it but I they must have they
must have thought about that they they must have be designed to to not ruin it
when I'd use the Eraser I also didn't really say much about the fact fact that
this is what is it 11.8 in I believe we're dealing with a 2160 by 1620 screen
can I zoom in can I oh I can the responsiveness is a
little concerning to not get in the way
hugely most of the time especially if you kind of like enter the the the
higher refresh rate mode by like zooming in like this it'll keep going but then
if you kind of pause for a second and then you want to do it again it's going
to be a little confused there's going to be like a little bit of lag see it's
like wait what are you doing why are you trying to do that you know I have to like leave it alone for a second and
then do it it looks sharp it's a nice display I don't have any complaints
about the uh resolution you're just coming in and just like dropping things
in we're seeing how the import process works in real time my little
ponytails I'm a brony I'm not but I was
a pony this looks great and I want to I
want to keep reading the rest to this I want to know what
happens I would want color on my you
know paperish device if it was going to
behave like a tablet you know I'm not sure what benefit color has in this kind
of situation where anytime you use it it incurs this extra cost there's a little
bit of lag and everything oh here's the button that they were talking about increase contrast okay F full page I
don't know if I can tell anything any difference let's turn it
off okay so you can see right away there's there like that makes a big
difference in the amount of like contrast especially in the gradients there you could see why are you loading
you were done and now you're loading again oh did you see that when you
attach it it has a little battery thing that shows up that's nice speaking of
battery remarkable says that like with reasonable usage you know a couple hours
a day 5 days a week Sometimes using the light sometimes not you can expect
around 2 weeks of battery life which is pretty good
so we've loaded some things on here and if we wanted to load a lot more on we'd
have space cuz there's 64 gigs of storage 2 gigs of RAM so let's take a
look at these accessories that I so rudely uh you know shoved aside earlier
I like this packaging it's like kind of like a rough paper like a uh like like
an artist paper so moving these around makes me feel like I have various yes I
I have I have a number of pieces that I've been working on I need to bring
them to the gallery that's that's an art that's what they sound
like okay so this is the premium leather book folio attach your device is there
magnets there's magnets on the back okay
that goes on
boom Oh Oh and it automatically locks
when you f fold it closed that's cool and there's a type folio as
well there we go okay this has a
different texture on it what kind of a what kind of a material is that they
call this Bas salt they say there's a keyboard in here but
uh oh oh I feel like I'm going to break
something this is not oh I see it's very
thin it doesn't feel that different from the other folio you kind of get your
finger in here and then you just pull it over like
ah you just pull it over like this ooh
okay and then you fold that under so what is the typing experience like hello
it's oh I'm confused by this keyboard
already there's a there's a what do you call that on the N the Spanish thing oh
this is a Spanish keyboard Ola me I'm o riy uh this is
what it's like it's not an unpleasant keyboard to type on but it is very uh
soft there's like tactile bump at the very
top but then there's a lot of after that
it's like bump and then so it feels kind of mushy to type
on it seems to be worse than the response time for the marker like I'm
getting ahead of the words a little bit as I type as fast as I can type it
really fast so it takes a second for the
words to come up but again I don't know how much I should like make excuses for
it because at the end of the day it
feels really premium and it feels extremely extremely focused on one thing
which is giving you this paperlike experience in a electronic device and at
that it excels I will say the interface there's
a bit of a learning curve here but it's not crazy Belle figured out that it goes
even farther like that oh okay so you can type something type something and
then oh I'm it's hard to describe what I'm talking about I'm talking about like
a little bunny guy like this who's prancing around that's what I'm talking
about but I think I would expect a little bit more niceties on it a faster
refresh rate you know kind of a bit more responsiveness and something that is
positioning itself as this kind of Premium thing it costs
$579 and it doesn't have all of the you
know extra doohickeys and gizmos that a
iPad or an Android tablet would have and that's without factoring in the extra
cost if you want to get the marker Plus or the folios so that's just the tablet
and the regular marker there is a market of people who are looking for this
focused experience who like me start
drawing on this incredibly paper-like
display and realize right away the joy
of of of like what that feels like there's something about it it makes me
want to use it even though I have no reason to use it and I think that by
itself is pretty cool the only question remaining in my mind is how long devices
like this will continue to exist because as I said the youngans are growing up
without really having a lot of experience of paper and pen and in
school I guess if they do drawing and stuff maybe they would have that
experience and like yearn for that so maybe this type of product will continue
to exist far into the future I hope so
because I feel like if we forget what it's like to Doodle like this on a
paper-like substance we're going to be missing something and you're going to be missing
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