Tablets with electronic ink do not have as much weight as terminals aimed at wider audiences such as home users or professionals. These devices can be an option to consider for other groups such as audience or designers who want to take their literary works and their work everywhere and achieve a better performance. However, in both, there are still certain reservations on the part of consumers.
What can these supports offer to achieve greater acceptance? Here we show you a list of models in this category and we will try to see what are their greatest attractions but also their drawbacks. At the same time we will tell you what the basis of its operation is, and we will see if they are economic alternatives or instead, significant disbursements will have to be made to acquire one of them.
As they are?
Tablets with electronic ink have some differences compared to the others that we can see in the market such as conventional or convertibles. At first, this format was not very successful. Factors like a best before date of resources high, but to a greater extent, the requirement of a greater visual effort on the part of the users when exposing themselves to the screens, necessitated several in-depth reforms. Currently, they work as follows: screen, made up of several layers, it is made up of millions of small balls and forms a kind of blank sheet. They work independently and have small electric charges. Together in one way or another, they show the letters, as if they were written on their surface, and they control one of the most criticized aspects of their day: the brightness of the diagonals.
1. Onyx Box Max
We started with a model launched at the end of 2016. Designed for writers and designers, it has a screen of 13,3 inches with a resolution of 1600 × 1200 pixels, 1 GB of RAM and an initial storage capacity of 16 that can be expanded using Micro SD cards. Its operating system is Android and it is accompanied by a pencil. Its price is high. It ranges between 750 and 790 euros in the main e-commerce portals. Its biggest drawback is the same one shared by many of the terminals of this format: It only allows working in black and white.
2. Tablets with low cost electronic ink
As with conventional media, here we can also find a catalog that ranges from more exclusive terminals to more economical ones. In this last category would enter Wacom Bamboo. The most striking thing about the terminal, which is around 125 euros, is not its price, but the fact that once we write on the screen, it gives the option of digitizing the document or keeping it in our own handwriting. Through an application installed as standard, it can be used interchangeably on iOS and Android. It has an initial memory of 5 GB equivalent to about 6.000 pages according to their manufacturers. However, it is possible to make a subscription that would raise this parameter up to 50 GB.
3.Intuos Pro Paper
We continue with another model manufactured by Wacom. More expensive than its predecessor and hovering around $440, contains an 8-button system that allows you to control the different functions of the tablet. Intended primarily for illustrators and designers, it weighs about 700 grams. According to its creators, it allows you to store up to 1.000 drawings and work in a multilayer system similar to Photoshop. It is available on the main electronic shopping websites. Although the screen has a high sensitivity, one of its biggest drawbacks could come from a design with thicker frames that reduce the area of the diagonal that can be worked on.
4. Sony's latest bet
A few months ago we told you about the work that the Japanese firm was doing in the field of tablets with electronic ink through a new device. Nicknamed DPT RP1, the new of the Japanese brand has a panel of 13,3 inches and it allows writing, drawing and also saving documents in a multitude of formats such as PDF. Its resolution reaches 2.200 × 1620 pixels and with a weight that remains at the doors of 350 grams, it offers other characteristics such as a storage capacity of 16 GB which remains at 11 after the installation of the apps and basic functions. It has support for WiFi networks. However, all of this comes at a price: $719.
5.Remarkable
We close this list with a terminal that will be released this summer. Currently it is possible to reserve it and its approximate cost will be $520. Its biggest drawback will be the fact that it will not be equipped with a pencil, so it will need to be purchased separately. Its most outstanding features are its screen 10,3 inches with a resolution of 1872 × 1404 pixels, a screen response time of only 50 milliseconds and connection WiFi. Among other features that could weigh down its reception, we find a RAM of only 512 MB and a non-expandable storage capacity of 8 GB.
After learning more about the tablets with electronic ink that we can find today, do you think they still have aspects to improve to be really competitive? Do you think they have everything they need to be useful for the public who resort to this type of platform? We leave you available more related information such as, for example, a list of supports designed for other groups of users so that you can know for yourself how far fragmentation can go.