hi john hi audience
today i'll be checking out the note air by books
they have sent us this e-ink drawing tablet to check out and i am
really excited to unbox it so let's get started
so as a graphic designer and illustrator i've been using
a ipad pro during most of my profession
drawing things like the abc book for ltteststore.com
but i want to see if this e-ink drawing
tablet would be a good alternative to the ipad for those who simply cannot afford it
since it is very expensive too expensive apple
so i'm gonna initially take a look at
the oh i guess this is just protective film there's no manual
so i'm just going to push these aside for now
and i'm going to take a look at the tablet as a graphic designer
i do love the matte black and spot gloss
that you see here wow
it also feels embossed which is pretty cool uh i love packaging
sometimes it makes or breaks whether or not i buy a product
so this one is pretty cool
all right wow i'm gonna take it out of
here um so here's our tablet
it looks quite nice i will take the sleeve off of it
uh
yes i'm the most gentle person alive
okay what is she doing now what what
okay it it's in
uh it also comes with a screen protector
which i'm not gonna bother putting on because i'm gentle
uh we also have the warranty card
cool uh don't need that uh we're definitely not gonna break anything
today and i believe this is the charger and
the stylus uh by the icons that are on
the top of this packaging box okay there's the stylus
it feels nice um i would say it's
not as nice as my apple pencil but for the price of this product
uh it's definitely workable
feel it feeling wise so it feels
a little thicker than what an average pencil or pen would feel like
but compared to the ipad pencils
uh it's pretty similar i believe it clips
on to charge i might be wrong but
not there there we go so it looks like
our little e-ink tablet is usb-c
charged yeah somebody else is cleaning that up
and it looks like our tablet also came with a cover i'm
not sure about this little red piece right here it kind of throws me off
uh but whatever yeah it's cute you can carry it
if you need to carry your your tablet case around
i mean sure why not ah you can buy this
this dope ShortCircuit
shirt from lttstore.com uh the case feels pretty
premium feels like a book which is kind of cute
um i don't know what oh this is for holding the stylus
let's pretend that doesn't exist right now oh i will
install my tablet to its case
they're oh are they magnets oh they're magnets
okay so i'm just going to take the protective film off
nice oh it doesn't feel like it does much
really
okay what are the point of what is the point of the magnets then
maybe that's no this would go on the front right because it looks like it
holds the holds the stylus it's a mystery
what's that stripe on the back uh just the design choice that i disagree with
but it looks like a book i guess that's
their point but i guess so you can't draw in books no oh
you can't well i'm not supposed to go to jail
this is a 10.3 inch e ink tablet with a
5.8 millimeter thickness and it charges with usb-c
as we saw previously when we were looking at the charging
cord uh the button is also on the side and there's speakers which is pretty
cool so i'm just gonna put it back in the case now and we're gonna turn it on
uh it's weird that it's black and white it feels like it should be color but
it's not uh that's one of the downsides of this
product so the screen resolution is 1872 by
1404 which offers us a 227
dpi screen we love an easy to follow setup
and this is one of them now we will calibrate
the stylus let's see how this goes draw
a happy face oh i will uh the first thing that i
noticed with the stylus uh the first time that i touched it to
the tablet itself is that the tip is quite fine
with the ipad pencil in comparison
uh this is way finer which is actually
quite nice at first glance we have a couple of options here
and the one that i am most excited about
is drawing which i don't see
here anywhere oh wait okay no it's not
that let's check out each thing individually and see how we like it
so first we have library where i guess
you can add books the no air offers connection to wi-fi networks that are
2.4 gigahertz and 5.0 gigahertz
so i'm just going to connect to the wi-fi and we can get going
books so many books
why does it say banned books
let's go there i want to see what the band
said i'm feeling naughty
i'm sorry i i'm not
a fan of the smoothness of this
scrolling yeah it the the hurts hurt but
with that being said there's quite a large variety of books here
including vintage and classic animals uh
happy surprise whatever that's supposed to mean
are you the dad book section no that's not a good part of the fanbook section
so we have our book here it looks very scanned in
but that's not what matters what matters is the text and the text looks good
it looks extremely clear i feel like this would be an enjoyable experience
for those who read i haven't read a book in a while so i
don't know or for university students who feel like
they need to mark up books to take notes or mark up
important facts or pieces of text this
could actually work really well okay so to change pages you can also use
your finger you don't have to use the stylus and for people who enjoy
typefaces you can also change the text
uh whoa there are 36 pages of fonts
which for a font nerd like me is
pretty awesome sarah what's your favorite font
oh no not comics yeah papyrus
no no no i use monster ad a lot that's a good font google font you can download
it yourself so i guess with the notepad this is also
the drawing pad can i call it drawing pad instead i
guess this tablet isn't necessarily directed or marketed
towards people who illustrate just because
it's not really a realistic circumstance to use this
to illustrate things for say abc books
with that being said let's check out what kind of
illustration options it does offer so
for colors since this tablet
doesn't have any RGB colors but only offers grayscale
it does give you quite a few options to choose from you have black
dark gray medium gray and light gray so you can kind of differentiate
between tones so we also have text boxes
typing with the stylus is kind of uncomfortable but
it's uncomfortable with the ipad too so i'll give them that
uh how
oh maybe with the lasso tool let's see
okay there we go oh it's just so this is
not fun oh no it doesn't shrink the text box it
shrinks the text box and the text i hate when that happens in
illustrator so this is not not good whatever well
i'll give them the benefit of the doubt this is called notepad and not drawing
pad so it's probably more for notes and less
for drawing uh i'll draw a quick quick little little
dinosaur here yay let's give him some spiky hair here
and come down to okay oh wow
he's a very old wise dinosaur it's a linosaur oh my gosh
he kind of looks like dumbledore dumble sore okay wait we're going
oh we can also adjust the thickness of the pen i believe
okay actually uh it has approximately
or actually has 20 different line widths
which is nice and you can also change the brush pen
so the stylus seems to adapt to pressure
and angle which is kind of cool i say this every time but let us know if you want
this sort of shirt it doesn't pick up my hand touching the
screen when i'm drawing which does happen sometimes when i am
using the ipad and it can be quite annoying so this is nice
oh it saved the file for us look at that cute little mini version of it
speaking of storage we have 32 gigabytes to fill up with music
books and documents as well as we can
download applications because this is compatible with Android 10. so
speaking of apps let's check out what we can download
oh let's see what what music we can
add folder to playlist nothing is happening
is it just because i'm not waiting or
it says fetching songs and then there's no songs
that are being fetched okay oh my god is she on youtube yeah
in black and white this is this is vintage youtube
oh the frame rate is just so bad
i it feels like i am watching a vintage film
there's no volume option unless i'm just
dumb here's the perfect time to introduce this this product has a
gravity thing or it's supposed to have a gravity thing
but it's not
uh this is this is really intimidating with Linus's face staring at me while
i'm trying to figure this out bluetooth wait volume okay i added
volume i don't know how i got to this page but it's a miracle
oh auto rotate there we go i turned it on now
yay we figured it out it's
perfect okay that zoom wasn't too smooth
oh yeah it's literally like
it literally looks like you're trying to touch his face
and there we go
yeah i'm really good at creating art
vintage crab raves
dare i say the speaker is the best part of the tablet
that was worth it that made the whole thing worth it so the speakers seem to
be great and another awesome part about this product is that
you can change the brightness and that means you can use it
anywhere is this product an affordable alternative to the ipad
absolutely not did i find it easy to use no
uh speakers though it does you can
listen to crab rave all day um i guess the battery life
is great in comparison to
the alternatives but for now i don't think i would recommend this product
that's all cool well
thank you for watching my first time on ShortCircuit i really hope you enjoyed
and um catch you next time i don't know
i just noticed this it says like a tablet
unlike any tablet and that's right you can play
crab rave in black and white um