The Penstar eNote is a brand new E Ink notetaking gadget that doubles as an ereader, and it has some distinctive options that set it aside from different eNotes.
The very first thing that jumps out concerning the Penstar eNote is the truth that it has 9 bodily buttons alongside the facet of the display screen, which can be utilized for numerous various things, together with turning pages. Most eNotes don’t have any buttons in any respect, apart from an influence button, in order that’s fairly uncommon. And there’s a very good motive for it.
The Penstar eNote comes with a stylus, and the display screen helps stylus enter (clearly), but it surely doesn’t assist finger contact, so it doesn’t have a capacitive touchscreen layer.
The gadget additionally lacks a frontlight layer—there isn’t a built-in gentle. It appears like they needed to make the display screen as clear and paperlike as attainable, in order that they did away with the additional layers. The one factor that doesn’t add up about that philosophy is the Penstar eNote makes use of an ordinary 10.3″ E Ink Carta display screen with 227 ppi, as an alternative of a more recent 300 ppi display screen like on the Boox Go 10, however nonetheless the display screen in all probability seems very nice with out the added layers.
The built-in Notes app presents a strong set of options, together with changing handwritten notes to typed textual content, audio recording, there’s break up display screen, native workplace enhancing, and there are numerous pen sorts and colours to select from. It additionally syncs with Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive.
They are saying the stylus helps 8192 ranges of stress sensitivity, which is larger than different Wacom-equipped eNotes that assist 4096.
The software program is predicated on Android 11 and the gadget helps putting in apps, in order that opens up loads of prospects as properly. The built-in software program helps 35 doc sorts together with PDF, EPUB, MOBI, TXT, Phrase, PPT, and many others.
Specs-wise it has a 1.8GHz quad-core CPU, with 2GB of RAM, and there’s 32GB of inside storage. It helps dual-band WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0. It has a USB-C port and a rotation sensor. There’s additionally a speaker and a mic for recording. It has a 6000mAh battery. The load is listed at 390 grams and the measurements are 198 x 226 x 5.5mm.
The general specs aren’t fairly up their with Onyx’s eNotes, however the Penstar eNote is rather less costly. It’s presently promoting for $369 on Amazon.
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