This review felt biased only highlighting positive aspects.
I saw this detailed review recently which talks about some negative things i.e. low contrast, viewing angles and some marketing bits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHeIw9rXzUQ
and while searching for this review again to post here, I their follow up on this review
Previous discussion of this tablet: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456834)
Looks cool. Near $800 tag price is sharp but a welcome competition to kindle, remarkable, and the like.
> Two weeks ago … I've since bought one and am using it fairly extensively
How did he get it so fast.
I bought one in May and won’t get it until August.
Website says current waitlist ETA is November.
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Kind of makes me want to cancel my order if he got to jump the line.
Clever marketing strategy.
The website makes it frustrating to find details about the technology. It does contain the debunked claim that the “blue light” emitted by less enlightened competing devices disrupts our circadian rhythms. This claim, endlessly repeated by legions of journalists, never withstood a moment of thought, and has recently been shown, empirically, to be false.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191216173654.h...
Does anyone know about the writing experience? Specifically, I've been looking at a Supernote, but the A5 X2 seems perpetually delayed, and I'm wondering if it's worth going for this now.
Edit to say -- watched one of the reviews, and it's not eInk. This thing boggles my mind. How did Amazon produce kindles for 16 years and the refresh rate today is pretty much the same as it was in 2008, and then these guys come along and say "1hz is too slow, let's do 60!"
How did he buy and get one so fast? Haven’t they been preselling batches that weren’t supposed to ship for months?
Did he just get moved to the front of the list because he’s notable? Or was getting moved ahead in line a trade for a review?
Checked again, only available in some countries.
twitter is throwing now 7 captchas at me, this must have hit some detector. anyone got an archive link?
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I bought a Boox color e-ink tablet last year. I wanted something different enough from phone and laptop that I could read books without feeling like I am staring at screens every waking hour. I also liked that it ran full Android so I can put whatever app on it.
While the color screen is a neat trick, in practice, in an e-reader, for this purpose, I have to conclude the colors (which are faint) were not worth the sacrifice of grayer screen background, less resolution, and slower/more complicated refresh.
All that is to say, my experience with the Boox tablet makes me feel like this Daylight Computer is on the right track with its design choices. While I don't quite have the disposable income to turn around and purchase another tablet so soon after spending my money on a different tablet, if I could do things over (or if my current e-ink tablet broke), I'd definitely buy this Daylight Computer.
Hopefully the company that makes this is successful and continues to expand and support the device. That's the other issue with the Boox tablet; I read on Reddit that there will not be new Android versions for it because the company is part of a culture of moving on to new hardware and abandoning support for deployed hardware quickly.