Supernote’s New E Ink Tablet Is Upgradeable And Repairable

Supernote has announced its caller A5 X2 Manta E Ink tablet that could beryllium a imaginable replacement to nan reMarkable 2 for those wanting a larger aboveground and a instrumentality that tin beryllium easy upgraded and repaired. It’s disposable now for $459, point of a jump from nan $379 reMarkable 2. The 2nd too includes a stylus, while nan Supernote A5 X2 requires you to proviso your ain — aliases walk astatine slightest different $59 to bargain 1 of nan company’s pens (which, according to Supernote, don’t petition charging and are fitted pinch ceramic tips that won’t deterioration down).

On nan different hand, nan caller tablet is very fixable. A expanse connected nan backmost of nan Supernote A5 X2 tin beryllium removed without tools, giving speedy entree to immoderate of nan tablet’s psyche components. This includes its 3,600mAh battery, which tin beryllium replaced erstwhile it loses capacity aliases stops charging, and nan A5 X2’s motherboard, perchance allowing for capacity improvements aliases caller features down nan roadworthy without having to move nan afloat device. There’s too a microSD slot that tin usage a practice insubstantial to turn nan A5 X2’s retention from 32GB up to 2TB.

The 10.7-inch 300 ppi E Ink aboveground connected nan Supernote A5 X2 is larger and has overmuch solution than nan reMarkable 2’s 10.3-inch 266 ppi panel, but for illustration nan four-year-old reMarkable, nan A5 X2 skips aboveground lighting for what nan institution calls an improved penning acquisition and a “true insubstantial look successful earthy light.” That could beryllium a reliable discarded erstwhile alternatives for illustration nan Amazon Kindle Scribe and nan Kobo Elipsa 2E tin beryllium easy utilized successful nan dark. Even reMarkable now offers an E Ink tablet pinch an illuminated screen.

Powered by a 1.8GHz RK3566 quad-core processor, nan Supernote A5 X2 runs a civilization Android 11-based OS called Chauvet that supports features for illustration two-finger gestures and offline handwriting nickname that tin personification your notes to editable text. The tablet too has Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, allowing documents to beryllium synced done cloud-based services for illustration Dropbox aliases Google Drive, aliases to beryllium transferred consecutive to different devices wirelessly utilizing an accompanying mobile app. For different security, you tin moreover plug a flash thrust into nan A5 X2’s USB-C charging larboard and proscription files manually.

Other features spot touch-sensitive strips connected nan bezels connected either broadside of nan aboveground that tin beryllium utilized to scroll agelong archive and a cloth loop for storing a stylus that tin too beryllium removed entirely.