our contrast can vary depending on the lighting envrionment, its the nature of non lambertian reflective displays with optical gain

most of the time its pretty good!

in dimmer environments, you can boost contrast by boosting the backlight a bit

The photo I linked to supposedly is how the tablet looks like in full sunlight, which I would assume would exhibit the best possible contrast. But the background is awfully dim (around #987 in the photo) (also in comparison to the white frame), and the text isn't very black (around #433). This looks like a contrast ratio of roughly 4:1. The photo probably isn't the best, e-ink displays usually have a contrast ratio of around 15:1. But that's still very low, printers can achieve a 100-200:1 contrast ratio for black ink on white paper.

coming! should be a bunch of unofficial ones on twitter

Does anyone have links? I don't have a twitter account, search seems login walled.

standard notes has an android app you could use! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.standardno...

and we're working on OS level native OCR

in the meantime you could use myscript nebo

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.myscript.n...

It looks like Nebo is an alternative note-taking app? I will email the Standard Notes dev team and see if they are planning to do the lift for OCR on this type of device. I see upthread someone has mentioned Obsidian will do so.

the simplest mod is notifications off by default

but we've got a bunch of things in the pipeline also

for example, one sec like 'app delaying / intentional friction' functionalities built into the OS

if you make something comparable for $729, i will buy it from you x 10

not kidding

its hard to get things made at low batch sizes with good economics!

(third party video based reviews coming in the weeks ahead! youtubers hopefully will actually reply to us now after the attention of this launch)

PS this review does a good job of describing the perf / tradeoffs of the G99 https://www.notebookcheck.net/Xiaomi-Redmi-Pad-review-Afford...

we're gadget nerds, its not as bad as you think :)

in fact, no early users have complained about performance at all, either to us or on twitter

we're open to feedback on how to improve the next gen! all we ask is to judge based on actual performance on intended workloads and not specs nor crysis lol

I hope MKBHD does a review of it.

you're right, for some folks it's not gonna be worth the price increase

we understand that, and we hope we can bring the price down with scale

for some of the folks who its worth it for, some of the reasons are: - onenote or noteshelf or goodnotes on eink working without lag makes it worth it - obsidian or google docs or your terminal working without latency - you end up reading way more substacks, articles, blogs, things in the browser - dragon ball z on eink is fun :)

you can try concepts on our thing! its a pretty damn good drawing app / procreate alt

we've built our own PDF parser / renderer, so we have a pretty good beta PDF reader app we're building

next up would be epub reader / support

and then building our own notetaker & typewriter app (though google docs, lex.page, IA writer are pretty good)

and many more services and apps, like actually finally good handwriting recognition

Is there an SDK or open source libraries that you've developed for the device that developers could leverage? It seems that you will support the android app store, but will there be a separate Sol:OS store for more tailored apps?

Why not use existing libraries, like Poppler?

Agreed. This screams scope creep.

"We've built our own renderer" would make sense to me, perhaps specific handling is needed for the device's display.

However rolling a parser does not without further context, it screams: "I want to encounter some dumb non-specification stuff and crash for no reason"

Why PDF first? Isn't reading Ebooks (in ebook format) the main use case for such devices?

Once you're approaching regular paper size, PDF is king.

There are just so, so many documents out there which were laid out with A4 paper in mind, which can't really be converted to any other format with reasonable effort. Just think of every research paper published ever.

People who are primarily reading books aren't really in the market for this kind of device. You can read books just fine on any old kindle and it's far more comfortable on a smaller, lighter device.

Likely to focus on use cases for their display tech. Ebooks are already solved and faster refresh won't meaningfully improve the experience over other devices.

Is the kindle app not supported?

Is Kindle on Android? Yes.

These are the apps they are specifically building. But all Android apps are availabe for it as well.

I mean, did they specifically check that the Kindle app works well on their OS.

- run the kindle app (android app) - run epub readers like lithium reader - use our PDF reader or others like adobe - go into the browser and download books - use google play books and its beautiful page flip animation lol

Excellent! Thanks!

should be fixed now, does it work for you? thanks for helping report a bug