When PocketBook introduced the InkPad X Professional final August I knew it was going to fail miserably, and it appears like that’s precisely how issues are enjoying out.
The PocketBook InkPad X Professional has a pitiful 2.4-star ranking on Amazon with solely 6 opinions, and the worth retains going decrease and decrease and nonetheless no person desires to purchase it.
The value began out at $420 final September when it first confirmed up on Amazon, and it has been dropping like a stone ever since. They’ve been promoting it for $329 for the previous a number of weeks, however now the worth has gone down even additional to $299 with free delivery.
It’s not fairly often you see a ten″ eNote promoting for lower than the Kindle Scribe, however that’s the case with the PocketBook InkPad X Professional, not less than till the following Kindle Scribe sale.
The largest failing with the InkPad X Professional is the outdated working system. It was one of many first PocketBooks to run Android as an alternative Linux, however they selected to make use of a ridiculously outdated model of Android from 2017 (Android 8.1) as an alternative of a more moderen model that comparable eNotes are utilizing.
The InkPad X Professional has just a few redeemable qualities, like the truth that it’s one of many solely 10″ eNotes accessible with a versatile Mobius E Ink display screen, which is lighter and extra sturdy than customary glass-backed E Ink screens that crack simply below stress.
At 350 grams, the InkPad X Professional is over 80 grams lighter than the Kindle Scribe, and it’s a full 100 grams lighter than the Onyx Observe Air3 (too dangerous Onyx stopped utilizing Mobius screens on their 10″ eNotes as a result of that’s an enormous distinction, and cracked screens are a standard drawback with Onyx’s Observe Air line).
It’s additionally the one present 10″ eNote with precise page-turn buttons, and it comes with a Wacom stylus and a canopy. Outdoors of the traditional Android OS, it’s not a foul machine on paper, but it surely’s certainly slower than comparable fashions like most PocketBooks are normally.
When you don’t count on a lot from Android apps and simply need to use the built-in studying and observe apps, it may be attending to the purpose the place the low value outweighs a few of the points. How a lot decrease will the worth go earlier than it will get discontinued?
