WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.680 It's back. It's back. It's books 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:10.000 In all seriousness, I'm very excited to be unboxing another books product 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:14.720 How many how long has it been a year two years three? It feels like forever 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:21.760 I was so happy just saying their name and now they're here with the books pama to pro. It's a phone 00:00:22.760 --> 00:00:27.080 Asterix not really don't worry. I'll explain everything basically. It's an e-paper 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:34.600 Phone-sized device and we got a white and a black one. Which one should I do first white chess rules Bobby Fisher? 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:41.320 Okay, ooh a nice like orange. Ah, why did I do that? It's like I've never unboxed something before 00:00:41.480 --> 00:00:47.880 Okay, so we got the phone right there. What else is in the box a little paper a little explainer 00:00:48.680 --> 00:00:53.640 Got a sim card sim card removal tool. Oh because this is a phone, right? No 00:00:54.520 --> 00:00:59.240 Stay with me USB-C to a cable. That's an interesting choice 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:03.800 That's three and a half feet and that's it 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:12.640 That's it. That's in the actual phone box No charger no anything because it's like maybe that's why they gave the USB a cable because you can plug that into anything 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:17.520 All right, let's look at the phone and we will cover that stuff in a second the device 00:01:17.520 --> 00:01:20.760 Yeah, you keep calling it a phone because look at it. It looks like a phone 00:01:20.760 --> 00:01:24.280 But it's not a phone and now the reason why I'll just tell you right now 00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:28.080 The reason why it's a phone but not a phone is because it has a sim card slot 00:01:28.080 --> 00:01:31.240 You can put a sim card in there, but you can only use data 00:01:31.240 --> 00:01:39.400 You can't use it for phone calls or for texting via SMS or MMS or RCS or whatever the kids are using these days 00:01:39.400 --> 00:01:46.640 But that leads me to ask many questions about why we have a phone size device that can do it can do data 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:49.840 You can go out there and have data on the go like a phone 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:54.920 You just can't call people and I have a theory I have a theory for why that is but first let's look at the phone itself 00:01:54.920 --> 00:02:00.800 So we got these 6.13 inch e-paper display on the back. We've got this whoo like a nice 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:06.880 Texture what is going on there? It's got like a I think that's meant to kind of like evoke paper 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:14.040 It's more bumpy than paper obviously, but like at a glance it kind of looks like paper. I like it. I don't know 00:02:14.040 --> 00:02:20.640 It's like a I don't know what you it's some kind of polymer that is a 16 megapixel camera 00:02:20.640 --> 00:02:27.280 And it yeah, it is very very tiny and I think that's too signal to you that you probably shouldn't be using it 00:02:27.920 --> 00:02:31.580 On the top we just have a mic on the right side 00:02:31.580 --> 00:02:34.960 We have the power button, which is also a fingerprint reader on the bottom 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:40.660 We have a USB-C port and a speaker grill and a mic and the combo 00:02:41.180 --> 00:02:44.820 SIM card slash micro SD card slot and on the left side 00:02:44.820 --> 00:02:50.420 We have the volume rocker and another button that I would know if I looked at the quick start guide 00:02:50.420 --> 00:02:57.980 But I didn't customizable function button. Okay, got a light sensor on the front here and a speaker by all accounts 00:02:57.980 --> 00:03:04.140 This certainly appears to be a phone now before we get too deep into actually using this thing as you can see 00:03:04.140 --> 00:03:09.700 It appears to be running Android and it is Android 15 real quick. There's some other things here 00:03:09.700 --> 00:03:13.980 We've got the Incense plus which is Boox's 00:03:15.460 --> 00:03:19.620 Stylus I guess it's not I don't know if they want me to call it a stylus or not and frankly, I don't care 00:03:19.620 --> 00:03:29.740 Oh, wow. Okay. This is an interesting design We've got USB-C port along the body of the pen there with and maybe an LED or a reset pin 00:03:29.740 --> 00:03:37.620 I'm not sure on the other side We've got a button and then tips which are replaceable as evidenced by the box of 00:03:38.260 --> 00:03:44.340 Replacement tips. Does it work just like out of the box? Can I do stuff with it? Or I mean, we'll find out. I'll use that in a second 00:03:44.340 --> 00:03:46.900 That's this the Incense plus 00:03:47.860 --> 00:03:53.500 And then we got a cover. Ooh This is kind of a nice fancy cover. What? Oh 00:03:54.300 --> 00:03:56.740 interesting it comes with okay, so it's got a it's got a 00:03:57.500 --> 00:04:03.060 Case in it that has what I like that and has this is magnetic something was sticking to it 00:04:03.060 --> 00:04:09.620 So it's a plastic case with a magnet ring on it and then a cover for the screen 00:04:10.180 --> 00:04:14.420 that wraps around the back and 00:04:15.060 --> 00:04:20.900 Connects to the front again, so you would take off the flap and then open up the main book without taking it all off 00:04:20.900 --> 00:04:25.980 You'd do that. I don't know if I like that. I'm trying to think if I'm like misunderstanding, but I don't think I am 00:04:25.980 --> 00:04:27.980 I think this is just kind of a wonky 00:04:29.940 --> 00:04:34.660 Hey, it's original I don't love how that looks when you 00:04:35.180 --> 00:04:40.380 When you when you flip it around and you it's all like done up properly. I want it to be level 00:04:41.140 --> 00:04:47.300 It doesn't matter at all But you know as long as we're talking about nice aesthetics and like design and stuff 00:04:47.300 --> 00:04:51.820 And then I'm guessing that this also has a magnet here, so you could attach that to something probably 00:04:51.820 --> 00:04:57.740 I mean, I'll give them I'll give them originality points for sure and like, you know, it's like a kind of a leatherette 00:04:58.140 --> 00:05:02.140 Covering I don't know if it's leather. It's leather something. It's meant to kind of feel like leather 00:05:03.420 --> 00:05:12.060 It's just like dangling Boox, you know, I love you. Okay real quick. What does the black one look like? Probably like the same thing but black 00:05:15.500 --> 00:05:18.940 Yep But that ooh that is like nice and sleek 00:05:18.940 --> 00:05:24.780 I don't know I like I like I kind of like the two-tone nature of this one where you kind of got the lighter back and then the 00:05:25.100 --> 00:05:32.860 These sides are like a slightly different color. That looks sleek. That is like this guy. Ooh, this guy reads a lot of books 00:05:33.180 --> 00:05:36.540 He probably has helped self helped himself so many times 00:05:37.420 --> 00:05:44.140 Anyway, I'm gonna stick with the white one though. Ah, but Riley, what about the sponsor? Okay now, I'll say that I do not have 00:05:44.780 --> 00:05:49.020 experience with the previous books Palma devices. This is my first 00:05:49.740 --> 00:05:53.980 kind of go at checking out the their phone sized things 00:05:54.060 --> 00:06:00.300 But I hear that people like them. They're they're often put forward as one of the pretty good options for a small e-paper 00:06:00.540 --> 00:06:05.020 You know e-reader type device. I feel like there's a bit bright for you, Andrew and I'm sensitive to your 00:06:05.740 --> 00:06:11.340 Needs there's dual backlight control. So this is like the strength of the backlight. This is brightness 00:06:12.220 --> 00:06:19.820 And then this is temperature. So you can have cool temperature or warm temperature. I like that. This is nice 00:06:20.700 --> 00:06:24.940 I've had there's been other devices where the two sliders are one is like a warm backlight 00:06:25.020 --> 00:06:29.180 And the other one is a blue backlight and you have to like choose you have to mix them and match them 00:06:29.180 --> 00:06:36.060 How you want, but I think I like this better where I'm like, okay I'm in a dark room. So I know I want it a bit wait. It's e-paper. It's not a regular display 00:06:36.140 --> 00:06:41.580 Whatever you get it and you'll notice that I just drag down from the top and we got into quick settings 00:06:41.980 --> 00:06:46.620 Just like a normal Android device because this is an Android device. It's running Android 15 00:06:47.100 --> 00:06:53.500 Obviously with books his own kind of skin on here, which overall does not offend me 00:06:53.820 --> 00:06:56.540 I like the minimalist design. It works well with the e-paper 00:06:57.420 --> 00:07:04.860 display, which is a collido 3 color e-paper display, which apparently has one of its big 00:07:05.500 --> 00:07:10.780 Selling points that it reduces blue light. It's less toxic for your eyes or something 00:07:11.340 --> 00:07:18.540 Um, we'll see how my eyes feel at the end Andrew pointed out that you can see a little bit of image retention still right there because the screen hasn't 00:07:18.860 --> 00:07:25.980 Done a full refresh. Is there a what I forget what device it was recently that had like a dedicated screen refresh button 00:07:26.300 --> 00:07:31.580 Which I thought was pretty handy, but at this but with this thing it seems like I'll just have to I'm sure that there's some 00:07:31.900 --> 00:07:35.660 Setting to do that. Okay. That's some sort of quick settings floaty bubble thing 00:07:35.900 --> 00:07:39.260 I'm sure you can disable that which I would very much like to do 00:07:39.500 --> 00:07:45.980 I don't know why all of these phone companies making software think that people want little bubbles floating around 00:07:46.220 --> 00:07:50.620 Surely you want quick access to our services over the other ones. No, I don't 00:07:51.420 --> 00:07:56.300 This is kind of an interesting configuration of icons at the bottom here. We got oh, is that that screen refresh? 00:07:56.940 --> 00:08:01.500 There it is. So there is a screen refresh button always always accessible if I open an app 00:08:02.540 --> 00:08:08.380 Yeah, nice. All right. You did it books. I knew you could and then we got the typical Android 00:08:08.540 --> 00:08:11.260 A home button back button multitasking 00:08:12.460 --> 00:08:15.100 Is this the settings? Oh, this is a quick settings 00:08:15.820 --> 00:08:20.460 Interesting. I think I remember this the the books tablet that I did back in the day 00:08:20.700 --> 00:08:24.700 Also had this like kind of quick settings things that could pop up switch refresh mode 00:08:24.860 --> 00:08:31.340 One thing that we're seeing a lot with these smaller e-paper devices is well and larger tablets as well is 00:08:31.980 --> 00:08:37.980 Modes that you can trade off Screen quality for speed. So here we got hd quality 00:08:38.940 --> 00:08:44.380 Ooh, that does look a little sharper than whatever we I think I guess we were on speed mode speed mode definitely looks worse 00:08:44.620 --> 00:08:48.460 I mean, you're not going to get like astoundingly amazing visuals on the 00:08:49.260 --> 00:08:56.860 824 by 1648 display and on the 6.13 inch screen here that equates to about 300 ppi 00:08:57.660 --> 00:09:03.900 In black and white mode if you're in color mode as we are right now. It's only 150 ppi 00:09:03.980 --> 00:09:11.340 Our Labs team pointed out in their testing that it's 150 ppi in color mode. That's not the case for devices that have the 00:09:12.300 --> 00:09:15.660 gallery 3 display now, apparently there are some other trade-offs 00:09:16.380 --> 00:09:20.620 but you can have that 300 ppi ppi 00:09:22.460 --> 00:09:30.620 Pixel density while also having color So, I don't know I you know, I'm not going to judge the choices they make. I mean actually I will that's the whole that's my whole job here 00:09:30.620 --> 00:09:33.660 I guess I didn't notice here that you can kind of switch between 00:09:34.540 --> 00:09:40.540 The recommended settings the fast refresh settings that'll change these settings down here or you can have fully custom 00:09:40.780 --> 00:09:47.020 Suffice to say there's a lot of depth here and you can play around until you find something that like looks pretty good to you 00:09:47.020 --> 00:09:51.580 So I'm not going to dive too much into the custom settings, but just know there's some color here 00:09:52.060 --> 00:09:59.980 But it's interesting that color e-paper devices have become a thing because part of the whole appeal of having a device like this is that you 00:10:01.020 --> 00:10:05.020 Have a worse screen So that you are not tempted 00:10:05.100 --> 00:10:09.100 To use it for things that you would use your normal phone for which is why 00:10:09.900 --> 00:10:16.700 I think that these guys listen to me and maybe they were working on this device before I expressed in a video that like you know 00:10:17.020 --> 00:10:21.660 The solution to this whole attention problem is not having a minimalist phone 00:10:22.300 --> 00:10:28.300 That forces you into like this little box. You can only do some things with your devices. It's it's up to you really 00:10:28.380 --> 00:10:31.820 It's a self-control thing. It's not so much like oh the hardware is to blame 00:10:31.980 --> 00:10:36.220 So maybe they were working on this before I said that but you know time could be non-linear 00:10:36.220 --> 00:10:39.820 Have you seen a rival if you haven't why not go watch it right now? 00:10:39.900 --> 00:10:44.220 I'm just kidding after this So basically I like that these guys are saying with this device 00:10:44.540 --> 00:10:52.780 You cannot use it as your normal phone If you care about your normal phone having the ability to call people and text people via traditional methods 00:10:52.780 --> 00:10:57.260 Which I think most people even though we barely use that anymore most people still want that as part of their phone 00:10:57.420 --> 00:11:02.860 So you're not going to use this as your phone. You're going to use it as an Android device like for example, you can use it 00:11:03.740 --> 00:11:08.780 For maps and it'll work. It's got gps. In fact, it's got assisted gps 00:11:09.740 --> 00:11:13.420 Which uses data to help with the gps positioning 00:11:14.300 --> 00:11:17.980 Funny enough maps is not installed on this device. So I'm going to install it 00:11:18.140 --> 00:11:21.420 I'm finding that some of the taps aren't really like registering 00:11:21.820 --> 00:11:29.420 Some of the kind of slower responsiveness here may also be due to the fact that the chip that we're running on here is a snapdragon 00:11:29.900 --> 00:11:36.700 6350 Which if you know anything about snapdragon, you're going to know that that's not the flagship and speaking of performance 00:11:36.940 --> 00:11:40.620 our Labs team ran some testing on the CPU here and 00:11:41.260 --> 00:11:46.380 Interestingly, they could not run the standard mobile geek bench setup that we use 00:11:46.460 --> 00:11:50.460 But they were able to run antutu where the books palmatu pro scored 00:11:51.580 --> 00:11:54.700 212,863 which for context 00:11:55.420 --> 00:11:59.100 Seems to be around the ballpark of a samsung galaxy a16 00:11:59.740 --> 00:12:07.500 And less than a quarter of the score Of the of a red magic 10 pro that's according to numbers on antutu's website 00:12:07.660 --> 00:12:11.180 So you're not dealing with a incredibly fast incredibly powerful 00:12:11.980 --> 00:12:16.300 Chip here. However, I'm in a some kind of mode that's making the refresh 00:12:17.100 --> 00:12:22.780 Less than inspiring although for an eink display. I mean I have used much much worse 00:12:22.860 --> 00:12:28.300 I mean like look at this. This is this is like, you know, it's like using a slightly slower 00:12:29.180 --> 00:12:32.140 OLED display not OLED, but you know traditional display 00:12:32.460 --> 00:12:36.140 I do want to just like go into like the fast okay fast refresh. Ooh 00:12:36.780 --> 00:12:39.740 What? so fast refresh 00:12:39.900 --> 00:12:46.620 Brought more color in and more contrast that looks way better and it's much more responsive more color and more responsive 00:12:46.860 --> 00:12:53.820 All right, let's see what this stylus experience is like with the ink sense plus. Oh stylus 00:12:54.940 --> 00:13:02.700 Do you want to display handwriting functions? Yeah, oh, okay. So now this stylus is working like my finger. That's all I've ever wanted 00:13:03.420 --> 00:13:08.220 Stylus fingers kids mode free mark. What is this? So this free mark 00:13:08.940 --> 00:13:17.340 app appears to be Something where you can either enable handwriting mode and then you can like draw on your screen and make notes 00:13:17.660 --> 00:13:22.700 And then you can save the screenshot and then that'll be there for you to save or to send it to somebody or you can 00:13:23.180 --> 00:13:29.100 Enable using mode and then now it's acting more now. It's just acting like your finger. It's kind of cool 00:13:29.900 --> 00:13:32.940 Actually like that that might be very useful if you're kind of going through 00:13:33.660 --> 00:13:36.300 documents or something and you want to you want to 00:13:37.260 --> 00:13:43.980 Use it Turn pages and then oh i'm going to enter notes mode and circle something save it goes away go back to using mode 00:13:43.980 --> 00:13:47.420 That's pretty cool. Nice one. Bukes. So the ink sense plus has 00:13:48.620 --> 00:13:52.220 4096 levels of pressure sensitivity. That's kind of the standard thing you hear 00:13:52.380 --> 00:13:57.020 Got a shortcut button on top that i'm guessing is customizable 00:13:57.260 --> 00:14:02.300 I got to say there's something about using Android e-paper devices, especially in some apps 00:14:02.300 --> 00:14:08.140 It seems like some apps can really take advantage of the advances in refresh rate that have been made with this technology 00:14:08.460 --> 00:14:13.340 And other apps like are not optimized for it using the settings app where you can't 00:14:13.900 --> 00:14:16.300 Scroll and see like I can't peek 00:14:17.180 --> 00:14:19.980 At what i'm going to see under there. I scroll and then I have to 00:14:20.460 --> 00:14:24.380 Accept what's going to show up and it's like just like that. That is very frustrating to use 00:14:24.700 --> 00:14:28.460 So I feel like priority number one. I don't know maybe don't listen to me 00:14:28.860 --> 00:14:32.940 But if it was me priority number one would be making it so that I can scroll and like 00:14:33.660 --> 00:14:38.700 Not have to scroll in and wait scroll wait scroll wait. I just realized when you scroll 00:14:39.980 --> 00:14:46.540 Full refresh It it goes a whole page down. Even whether you like do a lot or do or do a little 00:14:47.660 --> 00:14:51.180 It goes one page down. You can't like go in increments. Oh 00:14:52.460 --> 00:14:57.100 Change it There's the notes app. Okay. We're in color mode 00:14:57.740 --> 00:15:03.820 And how does this feel the feel is kind of nice. It does not feel like a normal display. There's a little bit of scratch to it 00:15:04.620 --> 00:15:07.340 I wouldn't say it's nearly as paper-like 00:15:07.980 --> 00:15:12.860 as the remarkable screen or like 00:15:12.940 --> 00:15:17.820 something with a paper-like Screen protector no free cloud take that out 00:15:18.700 --> 00:15:25.180 Editor leave that in Whoa, look at that. Look at that delay. It's processing. It's like wait 00:15:25.740 --> 00:15:28.540 Where are you going? Take me with you. No 00:15:30.620 --> 00:15:35.340 My question is my question is why can't they put like a little bit better of a processor in there? 00:15:35.420 --> 00:15:39.100 I mean, it's probably like one of the most expensive parts if not the most expensive 00:15:39.580 --> 00:15:43.900 But like that's a little frustrating if I if I erase everything that I did 00:15:44.460 --> 00:15:49.420 If I erase everything I've ever done Well, it's still wow that's taken a while. It was something about that tool 00:15:50.140 --> 00:15:54.300 Very responsive with like a more basic kind of is a ballpoint pen and green 00:15:55.260 --> 00:16:02.220 And it's gone every time I'm you expect an eraser just to erase the part of like a like part of what you're doing 00:16:02.380 --> 00:16:07.660 This is this is like seems to be a theme with these e-ink devices. It's like you never know when you go to erase 00:16:07.740 --> 00:16:11.820 Oh, here we go. There's different modes here lasso eraser. Oh, is this going to be it? 00:16:12.300 --> 00:16:15.340 Yes, there we go. So there's a different eraser mode where you can erase part of it 00:16:15.420 --> 00:16:19.340 Anyway, there's a decent amount of depth here in the amount of tools that you can you can have 00:16:19.660 --> 00:16:22.620 It's that time even though it is an e-paper display 00:16:22.860 --> 00:16:26.780 It has a pretty good color display. Oh, look at that. Is that how a video is going to look? 00:16:27.580 --> 00:16:31.180 I think so. We have no choice but to crab rave so far 00:16:31.260 --> 00:16:34.380 I'm pretty happy with how much like a normal 00:16:34.860 --> 00:16:39.100 Android device using this feels and we are in fast refresh rate mode 00:16:40.220 --> 00:16:43.820 So the colors could be a little bit better than this 00:16:44.620 --> 00:16:51.580 I'm guessing it's capable of that But I think if you go into that like more a color high color fidelity mode 00:16:52.060 --> 00:16:54.940 Then it's going to start flickering. I don't know if I even want to do this guys 00:16:58.220 --> 00:17:01.260 Sounds like a tamagotchi. Yeah, those speakers are not good. Uh 00:17:02.140 --> 00:17:06.460 I think I don't know what else to tell you You're you're not going to get a device like this for the speakers 00:17:06.940 --> 00:17:11.420 The speakers are there if you really need to watch a video that somebody sent you and it's got sound 00:17:13.100 --> 00:17:20.620 You can play the sound You can play the sound, but it's not going to sound good now playing video is actually how our Labs team did the battery discharge test 00:17:20.860 --> 00:17:24.460 and It lasted six hours 00:17:24.620 --> 00:17:30.780 Which is not very long For a phone these days. You're expecting it to have more like all-day battery life 00:17:30.780 --> 00:17:38.140 However, this display this kind of e-paper display the way that it displays things is by moving physical particles around on the display 00:17:38.220 --> 00:17:40.620 So it's going to take more energy to play video 00:17:41.260 --> 00:17:46.780 Continuously than you know one of these other traditional displays that are geared towards play video 00:17:47.020 --> 00:17:51.900 Now brace yourself because once they discharged the battery completely they did a full zero to a hundred 00:17:52.380 --> 00:17:59.180 Battery charge test using our standard 45 watt charger. However, the books pama 2 pro did not care how much wattage 00:17:59.500 --> 00:18:03.100 It was being fed because it only wanted to use 10 watts 00:18:03.740 --> 00:18:05.820 and so it took three hours 00:18:06.780 --> 00:18:09.180 and 17 minutes to charge the 00:18:09.900 --> 00:18:13.500 3950 milliamp hour battery and that's just too long. I'm sorry 00:18:14.060 --> 00:18:20.140 Now that is playing video. As I said, it takes a lot of battery when you're doing normal e-ink e-paper type stuff 00:18:20.780 --> 00:18:27.580 People are you know who've been using this posting online about it or talking about you know a week of battery life possibly more 00:18:28.060 --> 00:18:34.220 So, you know, you won't have to charge it for three hours uh that often or ever if you kind of like 00:18:34.700 --> 00:18:39.820 Do some power sipping charging in the middle of the day But it is something that you will have to be aware of that like if you're like oops 00:18:39.820 --> 00:18:44.300 I forgot to charge you can't just like do a quick charge like it's gonna take a while you're gonna be there for a while 00:18:45.100 --> 00:18:50.780 Do some reading now against all recommendations devices like these are putting cameras on board 00:18:51.260 --> 00:18:57.980 uh I I shouldn't be sassy like that. Like I said, it's nice to have a device like this that can do anything 00:18:58.300 --> 00:19:01.580 That a Android device could do just uh poorly 00:19:02.540 --> 00:19:07.100 Just to have it, you know because then we have it say say cheese 00:19:07.980 --> 00:19:12.380 Got the 16 megapixel camera and now I'm doing my my this is my standard photo test 00:19:12.380 --> 00:19:14.780 I don't know if you've seen me do this before Mel. Oh, yeah 00:19:15.500 --> 00:19:19.100 And I won't be able to tell what those look like until uh, the editor gets them 00:19:19.180 --> 00:19:22.540 So, uh, you let me know in the comments. How do they look probably not great? 00:19:22.940 --> 00:19:26.540 It's not it's not lagging horribly like it's it's to the point where I can 00:19:27.340 --> 00:19:35.900 I can do it and I don't feel like I'm getting sick There's a selfie cam button, but there's no selfie cam on this device. It's just taunting me like remember 00:19:36.220 --> 00:19:44.540 Remember, this is not a phone. We talked about this I I'm happy to see that uh chrome supports kind of smooth scrolling instead of like jumping down by pages 00:19:44.700 --> 00:19:47.020 You know in some ways despite me saying that 00:19:47.740 --> 00:19:51.500 The way forward the way to not have brain rot is 00:19:52.060 --> 00:19:57.100 It's not a hardware solution despite me saying that using this thing. I kind of want to use it as my phone 00:19:58.460 --> 00:20:04.620 The minimal phone was like a very distinct experience. It was like listen, you have a problem 00:20:05.260 --> 00:20:08.220 Okay, it was Android it ran Android so it 00:20:08.780 --> 00:20:13.260 You know could do some stuff like this although it had its own skin on it 00:20:13.740 --> 00:20:18.620 You could still install apps and try to use it like another kind of Android phone 00:20:19.100 --> 00:20:25.500 But it was like it was still just kind of clunky this with the high refresh rate and the color 00:20:26.300 --> 00:20:30.860 and the familiar settings menus and stuff instead of like minimal zone sort of like 00:20:32.220 --> 00:20:40.460 custom skin This feels this felt pretty good. So in some ways, I'm a little sad that this does not have the capability to 00:20:41.340 --> 00:20:47.260 Make phone calls or make or do text messages, which I still sometimes do I admit it now 00:20:47.260 --> 00:20:55.820 That said despite this very much Feeling like using a normal Android device these companies are still putting very weak hardware in here 00:20:56.460 --> 00:20:59.740 It does have 128 gigs of storage to start 00:21:00.220 --> 00:21:03.260 and you can actually expand that up to two terabytes with the 00:21:04.060 --> 00:21:10.060 SD card combo SIM tray thingy. It's got that weak CPU. We talked about it's only got eight gigs of RAM 00:21:10.700 --> 00:21:13.580 Uh, which is now in 2025 not very much for a phone 00:21:13.900 --> 00:21:19.340 And so for a daily driver it probably would still be frustrating and then we're back into this whole like 00:21:19.740 --> 00:21:24.060 Do you want your phone to be frustrating? Maybe you want your phone to be frustrating so that you use it less 00:21:24.140 --> 00:21:27.980 But again, I don't think it's a hardware issue. I think it is a 00:21:28.300 --> 00:21:34.140 Self-control thing and I think it's also a platform thing We need to we need to make these platforms less brain rotty 00:21:34.860 --> 00:21:38.540 Because I don't want to use a crappy phone 00:21:38.540 --> 00:21:46.460 Especially for $400 which is like you can get a pretty decent budget phone for around that ballpark these days 00:21:46.940 --> 00:21:50.700 So it's $400 for the books palma 2 pro 00:21:51.180 --> 00:21:54.940 It's $46 for the books incense plus 00:21:55.420 --> 00:22:00.060 Um, which I will say I like to the experience of that, you know taking this on the go 00:22:00.460 --> 00:22:05.260 Taking notes annotating your screen saving it reading and I've said this on other videos 00:22:05.340 --> 00:22:11.420 And I apologize to anyone who's about to hear this, but I already read ebooks on my phone on my regular phone 00:22:12.300 --> 00:22:14.940 Uh in dark mode. Okay, so reading on an e 00:22:15.660 --> 00:22:21.980 Uh paper screen this small I'm fine with it. I'm also fine if you subscribe to the ShortCircuit 00:22:22.060 --> 00:22:27.420 Hey, uh, if you are interested in watching another video, perhaps you could consider watching a previous video 00:22:27.580 --> 00:22:31.500 Hosted by me, which is the remarkable paper. Uh pro move 00:22:32.140 --> 00:22:37.420 Which is $450 Books palma 2 pro poof palma 2 pro 00:22:38.460 --> 00:22:43.660 Open up books and give it a go when you're reading the books. Everything is so fine 00:22:44.060 --> 00:22:47.740 Just don't get it all the way to the end of the line