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Anyone care to recommend one of the two devices (Kobo Elipsa or RM2) mentioned? It appears the RM2 may have gotten more expensive since release? How is the relative build quality? Any key hardware differences to note?

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Having tested the Remarkable 2 for a few weeks, I'd actually recommend another device: The Supernote A5X. The hardware & writing experience are a tad better IMO and the software much more so.

Also, the Remarkable devs are notoriously bad when it comes to software updates and sharing their plans for the future with the community. Meanwhile, the Supernote people even share their Trello boards over on Reddit -> https://Reddit.com/r/Supernote

The Supernote, admittedly, is not as hackable yet as the Remarkable but 1) official software updates are much more frequent and 2) there are plans to open up the device to 3rd-party Android apps.

Could you provide a source on the software updates being more frequent, as well as clarify what you mean by rM being bad at updates? rM has been pushing out updates fairly regularly this year, especially if you include their beta channel.

Fair enough, maybe this has changed then. When I last tested and looked into the rM2 in depth (~2 years ago), it was completely different. The software was lacking basic features and there wasn't any communication at all on rM's part.

I've used both for extensive periods and even with the rm2's low storage, I vastly prefer it. The Elipsa's hand-writing experience was just awful - not just laggy but non-deterministically so, their sync/export was clunky, their updates were sometimes buggy (e.g. the recent addition of GDrive import and broken export, the works-now-won't-work-again Overdrive and Pocket integration), and the ad-ridden home page. By contrast, the rm2 is heavenly and it just works well - I was never the journaling type but the rm2 manages to extract a lot of writing out of me daily because of how awesome it is. Re. the rm2 pricing, I believe it has gotten a lot cheaper since its release - 400+usd vs 300usd now, afaik; I use an aftermarket pen with it (staedtler noris jumbo). I use the rm2 for work and for personal stuff and I love it; the elipsa sits idle and powered off.

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