Welcome back to the latest episode in products that want you to do less as a
way to maybe do more. This is the
remarkable paper pro move and a little
bookfolio to go along with it cuz it felt lonely. It didn't want to come in here by itself. And it appears to be a
smaller version of the remarkable paper pro nonmove
which is larger so it's harder to move.
This one's called the Move because it's smaller. You can take this thing
anywhere and no one will stop you. So, in case you didn't see our other videos
on the other remarkable products, this company is basically all about getting
you and all your friends and family to disconnect from social media. It's
rotting your brain. So, they've made these products that kind of like, you
know, they want to center you back in a more a more tactile human experience. We
want to write on things that seem like, you know, more like uh we're writing on
paper. And this time around, instead of the kind of larger, you know, iPad Pro
size large tablet, they're going for a more handheld situation here with a 7.3
in display. But we'll look more at that in a second. What else is in the box
here? We got some real paper. Welcome to our bettering community. Oh, better
better thinking community. I thought I read it as better thinking community
first, like we think better than you. But it's a it's a thinking community
that's better. Quick start guide. Turn on by pressing the power button.
Okay. Now, our unit was bundled with a marker plus which you can buy alongside
it or you can buy separately. And the marker plus is a little bit upgraded
from the regular marker from Remarkable in that it's got some grip and the
eraser on the back. But here's where we get into, you know, this company's
approach to this whole thing because this is the only stylus that you can use
with the Remarkable Paper Pro Move. And that's going to be a bit of a theme as
we see. These guys want you to disconnect from all those other services
and only use theirs instead. Bit of a trade-off, but we'll look at that a bit
more closely uh in a second. What else is in here? A nice flat USBC cable. I
like the [music] packaging. and additional marker tips. Does this like
pop out or something? Oh, it just slides out. Ooh, that is smooth.
Even when there are things about a company that would make you a little bit
mad at them for, it's like, ah, why didn't you let people do this thing the
way that they want to do it, like some of that goes away when you open up just
like a little thing like this with for with extra marker tips and it's just so
smooth. Like, they clearly just are paying attention. I love being taken
care of. I love people showing me a good time. All right, that's what's in the
box. You know, as long as we're unboxing stuff, I'm just going to unbox this
bookfolio, too, because that's going to go on. This is like, you know, just a
kind of a pro protective little thing around it that will make you feel a
little bit more like you're not using a digital device. It's all about deceiving
yourself.
Ooh. Oo, that's nice, though.
Okay, but before we put that on for good forever, let's look at the outside of
this thing. So, on the front here, we have the 7.3 in canvas color display.
That's actually the display is 7.3 in, but the device itself is 9 in across.
And the display is color. It's based on the e- in gallery 3 display, if that
means anything to you. Is there kind of like a quick setting like for like a
screen brightness or something? Oh, I just found something. Dragging down on
the top right gets you kind of a quick setting thing like in Android. You got
airplane mode. What is this? Oh, that's a screen share. This is orientation
lock. I've been wanting that because every time I'm moving it around it, it
flips. So, now it won't do that. That's great. And we got the brightness. Are we at max brightness right now? I mean,
it's an e- in screen, but it does have a slight backlight. Uh, you know, if you
want that and I believe it's a fairly soft one. On some other tablets that
we've seen, there are various there are kind of like different backlight
settings for like a cool backlight or a warm backlight or like mixed. This is
just got the one setting. Can we turn the lights off for a second? I will say
like if I'm in a pitch black room, if
I'm like right here, it's okay, you
know, like it's it's it's enough. >> I think you're probably right, Bel, that
it is more of a front light than a backlight. On the top we have the power
button and we can glimpse this anodized
aluminum frame that they have around the entire device giving it a pretty premium
look with these ridges. Uh that's about the same the same sort of design they
had on the nonmove paper pro. On this side we have I believe what is the
magnetic attachment point for the pen. Yes. Oh, not a pen, a marker. Do not
mess this up. [laughter] Wow, that's strong. And just like Yeah, I remember
that about the last time. They like their strong magnets.
[laughter] Does it charge it? Yes, that charges.
FYI. On the bottom, we have nothing
except the USBC port that will be used
to [music] charge the battery inside, which will last for 2 weeks. They say
that's better than less than that. It's a 2334
milliamp hour battery and Remarkable says that it'll charge to 90% in less
than 45 minutes. So like you're and you're only doing that every Fortnite.
Interestingly, not a game you can play on this. Oh, the back. The back is not
the same as the anodized aluminum frame. This is some sort of like poly composite
of some kind, but it's got this like cool texture to it that's sort of
teasing you. these feet still, even though it's a lot more uh of a portable
device, they still have these nice features that allow you to kind of put
it on a surface and have it just stay there while you draw. I hate it every
time I draw and then when the paper moves cuz I'm so strong cuz my muscles,
I can't help it. So, as I said, you cannot play Fortnite on this thing. I'm
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I'm going to fit it into the bookfolio. But there's something pleasurable about
taking a fabric covered something and
opening it like that. And this is really what Remarkable is all about. They're
like, let's get back to basics. Let's, you know, feel as if we're using
paper again. Pretend you didn't know that Android and iOS can do all of these
millions of things. So, we're into the interface here. It's called Remarkable
OS. it's their own Linux-based uh operating system. And that can be a plus
and a minus. They can shape things in their own image, but you're also lacking
some of the interoperability that's already baked in if you use something
like an Android operating system. I've talked about this before, but like other
e- in tablet makers will have a distribution of Android. They'll have a
Android based operating system and that isn't like exactly stock Android but you
can [music] do a lot of things that Android can do. You can you expect the
settings to be there that you want and in this one it's a custom thing. You
have to kind of learn how everything works from scratch. I found my way into
settings which is nice. You know there's some things to learn that like there's
not really a home screen per se. I mean like this is sort of the home screen. my
files. The experience here is less about using an app that is like maybe calling
to a cloud somewhere and more about you're doing stuff on your device. When
we first covered these guys, uh I remember thinking like, okay, I'm
looking at the list of things you can do with the connect cloud services and it
is pretty it's pretty limited. Like, okay, what if I just want to text
something to somebody? I just drew this amazing picture. sun in the sky, grass,
[laughter] and [snorts] I'm like, "Wow, this is so
good. I want to send this to my 5-year-old." Even though you're connected to Wi-Fi and you can sign in
to various services, you cannot just
text something to somebody, you know, you can't just attach it. You can send
it to their cloud service that can sync with your desktop and stuff. So, you can
there there is back and forth there, but they are limiting the pipeline. They're
limiting the pipe. I did mention that there's an eraser on the other end of
this marker plus that you can use to just I guess erase a chunk of what you
drew. Oh, look. I made Alfred Hitchcock. One of the things that Remarkable uh
makes a big deal about is saying that this is going to feel like paper. And I
got to say that it very much, you know, does a lot more so than, you know,
another tablet. I don't know if you know, you kind of you can kind of feel
that texture. You feel the uh roughness.
I I thought I tapped that circle before, but I must have like just slightly
missed it. So, you add you can you can
do colors by tapping that little circle up in the corner. And you can make your
stroke thicker or thinner. Choose different. Ooh, magenta paintbrush. That
That's a That's the thickest paint brush we got, guys. Really? Can I press go
thin and press to go thicker? They do
have some pressure sensitivity. Okay. So, there there it is. You got you got
color if you really want it. So, their note-taking interface here is going to
be somewhat familiar to people who have seen tablets like this before. But if
you haven't, you know, it's not trying to be a Photoshop replacement. It's just
trying to give you some basic tools that you can use to take notes or sketch
things or just get something out of your head and onto this thing instead. You
have three fonts to choose from.
[laughter] It's like when you use an Apple device and you come across something and you're
just like that's so Apple. Like there are various things in this thing where
it's like that is so remarkable. You know, in terms of I one thing I haven't
really talked about yet is the refresh rate and the general sort of like
usability of like a touch screen. That's something that e in screens struggle
with. But as you can see, it's if you give it a second to refresh after you
use it, it's fairly usable and responsive. You know, I can zoom in,
zoom out, kind of see where I'm at, and then let go, and it'll kind of be like,
"All right, that's where we are." It's annoying if you're not used to eing
screens. This is pretty good. Uh, compared to some of the eing tablets
that I've looked at, like, you know, at least I'm not like, "Ah, I'm just trying
to do this." Like, I know what's happening here. Oh, this is this is my
note that I made. Uh-oh. Cloud limit reached. Without connect, documents stop
syncing after 50 days of inactivity. Reactivate cloud storage and sync
documents across all devices. It's been longer than 50 days since we drew this
thing. Oh, it'll still be there in your cloud, but you can't like modify it.
Despite those limitations, you can go into this integrations section and it
says integrate with you can use setup. You can use your own cloud storage. So
you can connect your one drive, your Google drive or your Dropbox and access
it on your tablet. If you want to send
anything that's where kind of connect is
uh that's that's where you need connect. [music] I mean you can present with
screen share. I guess it's like you that's put it on another display. You
can send it by email and those are the only two options here without connect.
If if you're all about just using this as like a receiving device, [laughter]
then then you probably don't need Connect. Otherwise, they want you to use
it their way. But what if you just want to use it as an e-reader? Is this how we
I'm swiping. I'm tapping. How do we go
to the next page, people? Oh. Oh. Oh, swipe on the bottom. You got to swipe on
the bottom. So, I have gotten back into reading uh in the past year or two, and
I'm reading almost entirely ebooks on my phone. So, I'm used to kind of just
tapping on the right side of the of the screen, and that is not what everyone's
so surprised. It's fine. I use dark mode. Companies like Remarkable and the
Minimal Phone and stuff are saying that it is a hardware and software problem.
And I think that's definitely part of it, but I think that like, you know,
it's going to be up to each individual person to take a look at these devices
and listen to people like me who are actually using them and kind of like trying to get across to you what it's
like to be like, [music] is getting a new device going to solve
this issue? Or do I just kind of need to maybe have a time limiter app? I love
reading ebooks on my phone. I'm sorry. Okay, I mean, I'm not sorry. I won't
apologize now for all of that kind of friendly criticism that I'm giving
towards Remarkable for this like very pipeline walled garden approach that
they have to, you know, like making you use the tablet the way they want to. Uh,
their connect service isn't that bad.
It's three bucks a month or $30 a year. You get a 50-day free trial, but it is
just hard to justify. If I knew someone who's paying for that, I would I would
have some questions for them. I don't know. Boos, right? We all know BS. They
use Android and you can I don't think they have any restrictions on that kind of stuff, do they? We're going to fact
check that. The device itself, the Remarkable Paper [music] Pro Move starts
at $450. The Marker Plus is another $50 if you
want that. The folio here is anywhere
from $70 to $140 depending on the
material that you get it in. This is I mean that's adding up compared
to the remarkable paper pro nonmove which is $630 bucks starts [music] at.
So you know it's I feel like this the one particularly is not quite at that
point where it's like obviously overpriced. Like you could make an
argument for spending 450 bucks, 500 bucks with the thing on something that
you think is going to like if you're a writer or you're an artist and you're
like, I really I could really use a device like this that is like a
sketchbook [music] but also allows me to kind of stay connected to a certain
degree. It has extra tools. I can do color. I can annotate documents. [music]
You know, the the the use case is there for a certain type of person. I think
I'm just continually asking, do we need separate devices for that or can we have
devices that are still smart and just, you know, uninstall Tik Tok or
something? And the answer is no. Thanks
for watching. Uh, subscribe to ShortCircuit. Watch the previous video uh of
of this series. Watch the remarkable paper pro if you really want to, or any
other video from the channel. They're all pretty good.