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[-] smeg@feddit.uk 7 points 4 days ago

Is that just the best an e-ink device can do? I didn't even know you could get e-ink touchscreens at all!

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

Pretty much all kindles have touch screens these days.

And the current generation of Supernote, Remarkable, etc e-ink tablets have reasonable response times.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago

That's cool, are any of them full Android devices that you can tinker with?

[-] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 days ago

Boox has a few. I like mine.

[-] nieceandtows@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

There is mobiscribe wave in both bw and color. The company is shutting down, so they're selling off their inventory for cheap. I bought a pen support bw notebook for $100 and a color pen supported notebook for $170.

[-] antithetical@lemmy.deedium.nl 4 points 4 days ago
[-] madjo@feddit.nl 3 points 4 days ago

You weren’t kidding. The bw one went from 129 usd to 270 euro even before shipping costs were added.

Simply switching countries from USA to Netherlands.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The Supernote is running a version of Android that let's you sideload stuff, but I haven't messed with it too much. There are also boox devices that are Android based and the inkpalm from Xiaomi.

For the most part though, I think the android versions they use are generally very old.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 4 days ago

Ah that's a shame, if there's no guarantee of any kind of ongoing support then it's just ewaste-in-waiting

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Meh, Supernote could shutdown tomorrow or upgrade to Android 16 and neither would change anything about how I use it. They also made the internals of this generation replaceable.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 4 days ago

That's good. My concern is generally with security updates but I guess it really depends what you're using the device for.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

Some Kindles. I know mine can be flashed to full Android instead of the stripped-down version it runs now, but I wouldn't want to do that because it would run so much slower and have terrible battery life.

[-] infeeeee@lemm.ee 6 points 4 days ago

Current eink devices are much more responsive than older ones, so there were definitely some improvements over the years, we need some more decades for this technology to become a viable alternative in the devices like this.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

If there was more demand for it, I doubt it would take decades.

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