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Which dongle do you use? This is the best option at the moment till we can afford a more expensive chip in the next gen that accepts hdmi in

Still on the hunt for a really good video capture / hdmi capture dongle

If/when we release a bootloader unlock tool, and you can flash a custom ROM onto it, would that work for you.. be good enough?

Appreciate the appreciation and thoughtfully laid out idea!

I think we’re actually intrigued and open to build this!

What helps to know: - is 1080p ok? - what’s the minimum size you’ll be ok with ? - aspect ratio? - any other important details?

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

coming! should be a bunch of unofficial ones on twitter

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...

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

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're open to it! we just need to better understand what resources we need internally to support this effort and for the specific mediatek/qualcomm chips we're looking at

yes

yes we do! ipad mini and 13.Xin versions are kawaii af

full refund if you dont like it

its vulnerable for us as a small startup on a shoestring budget to offer this, but it is the right thing to offer

(sorry we will update the page to add details to refund/return!)

1) remarkable & ratta are traditional off the shelf eink and have to use a frontlight (above the display) which has many tradeoffs

2) daylight actually uses microperforations in our LivePaper display, so we're able to use a backlight, which in our opinion is superior in multiple ways

one of which, is what you're describing! our backlight doesnt affect writing feel or distance from pen tip to display!

(also way better contrast with BLU on with backlight)

3) thats awesome! feel free to reach out if you want to collaborate, we want to build the best PDF experiences out there as we're serious about knowledge work

anjan at daylightcomputer.com

we will share more details about our pdf reader later this summer when we do an official software launch!

yup yes, we will release a bootloader unlock tool so you can do whatever you want

they're coming!! but i appreciate your skepticism until there's more video proof, i am the same

too many broken promises by other tech cos, i understand we have to earn your trust

there should be more video reviews coming out on twitter though from early customers / testers

.. if i wasnt drowning in launch, id try to find you a link, if anyone else could help !

those videos were shot on pre-production units. we may still not be perfect, but it should be a lot better on our most recent / PVT / production units

we'll update the videos once launch calms down!

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

- 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

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

we're not eink like them! see my comment here :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40457491

we aim to build a monitor, but hardware companies arent very hot for VCs, so cash flow from selling the tablet is the primary way we are going to fund building a monitor, phone, and laptop

it can pretty easily become / look like stock android if you switch out our launcher for one of your preference

we also gonna come out with a bootloader unlock tool so you can customize it to your hearts content

goal is to be hacker/DIY friendly.. we'll get better and better with this over time

need more feedback on what the use case / killer apps to nail of a 'pebble watch returns' would be

$$$

certifications for mobile/modems are expensive

our future gens will have it once/if we have the resources

your support means everything! thank you!

i wish people could understand how hard it is to survive low volume novel consumer electronics.. not meant to solicit pity, but to appreciate why we're all just stuck with big tech after indie company after indie company fail

just small dev team, updating to new android and porting over all your changes is a tremendous amount of work believe it or not

if launch goes well, the team's gonna get a lot bigger and you can expect us being able to do much more on the AOSP/android side

i think your feedback is fair. if you're open to a few considerations:

- with monochrome pixels (ie no RGB subpixels), resolution is not really apples to apples.. things look a lot crisper subjectively than their objective resolution spec

i think a bunch of early customers have tweeted out their reactions to resolution/crispness. id encourage you to ask them for their feedback if you were still curious

not claiming its perfect, just that its not as bad as you think it is.

(PS we chose this resolution specifically cuz it results in a larger aperture ratio which enables a brighter screen.. we had other experiments at 220-240ppi, but we couldn't really tell a difference in resolution, and the brightness difference was palpable)

PPS on price - not much we can do here, extremely difficult to get even the price we did on low batch totally new custom displays.. we're proud of what we're able to do, but we understand there's a tesla roadster effect of sorts.. starts our expensive, and successive generations will ride the cost curve down tremendously

but cant get there without early supporters. so you choose anon! more economical samsung, or more pricey (but worth it?) indies like us!

still doing more testing, but some test results:

- reading without amber backlight: 67 hours - youtube without amber backlight: 30 hours - reading with 30% amber brightness: 30 hours