> Just my experience but I felt they are slow fragile and not particularly great on battery life. I think a dedicated device like remarkable or kindle without Android stuff running in the background might make more sense.
I have a reMarkable 2.
My primary problem with it is the battery life. If you leave it on, it will, after a certain period of time, overlay a banner on the screen saying it's turned off because of inactivity.
But the banner appears to be lying. Leaving it in that state rapidly drains the battery. If you want the battery to last, you need to manually tell the device to shut down, at which point, instead of displaying whatever was last on screen plus a banner explaining how it's shut off due to inactivity, it displays a different screen saying "reMarkable is powered off". At that point, the battery stops draining.
I can't understand why shutting off due to automatically-detected inactivity isn't supposed to take the device out of "actively drain the battery" mode. It seems like a huge, unforced usability failure.
I have a reMarkable 2.
My primary problem with it is the battery life. If you leave it on, it will, after a certain period of time, overlay a banner on the screen saying it's turned off because of inactivity.
But the banner appears to be lying. Leaving it in that state rapidly drains the battery. If you want the battery to last, you need to manually tell the device to shut down, at which point, instead of displaying whatever was last on screen plus a banner explaining how it's shut off due to inactivity, it displays a different screen saying "reMarkable is powered off". At that point, the battery stops draining.
I can't understand why shutting off due to automatically-detected inactivity isn't supposed to take the device out of "actively drain the battery" mode. It seems like a huge, unforced usability failure.