Lenovo has announced an e-ink tablet called the Smart Paper, which appears to be aimed at Amazon’s writing-focused Kindle Scribe. Smart Paper has a 10.3-inch screen, a pen that doesn’t need to be recharged, and the ability to sense when the pen is tilted, as well as 4,096 levels of pressure.
The screen used by Lenovo, while not as pixel-dense as the Kindle’s, should have a high enough resolution for reading and writing at 1872 x 1404. It also has front lighting with adjustable color. Another cool trick is that Smart Paper can record audio as you take notes with a pen, and you’ll be able to hear exactly what’s being said as you write a specific note—a handy feature if you’re following along. meetings or lessons.
One of Scribe’s biggest annoyances is syncing, according to my colleague Alex Cranz’s review. Your notebooks are synced via the cloud, but the marks you make in PDFs or books aren’t. It seems that Smart Paper can solve this problem; Jeff Witt, a company spokesman, said The limit in an email that users will be able to import content in epub and pdf format. It also says that the Smart Paper app for Windows, Android and iOS devices will be able to sync books, notes and documents.
The company’s datasheet states that Smart Paper runs the open source version of Android 11, so it may be possible to load apps on it, whether or not it is. easy do is an open question.
At $399.99, the Smart Paper is more expensive than the cheapest Scribe you can get, which starts at $340 and includes a “basic” pen and 16GB of storage. However, Lenovo’s version comes with a case and has 50GB of storage. The Kindle, meanwhile, has a $390 32GB version and a $419 64GB version.
Smart Paper isn’t the only e-ink product Lenovo is announcing at CES — the company is also showing off a new generation of ThinkBook Plus, continuing the line of laptops with regular paper-like displays. With previous iterations, the e-ink panel was on the back of the lid, which meant you had to use it with the computer closed. Now, with the ThinkBook Plus Twist, the screen is on a hinge, which allows you to flip the e-ink screen and use it with the keyboard.
Both of the Twist’s screens are an upgrade over the 2021 ThinkBook Plus Gen 2: The 13.3-inch “main” screen appears to get a slight resolution bump to “2.8K” (a term Lenovo previously used for indicate a 2880 x 1800 screen) and will now feature a 60Hz OLED panel, compared to the previous version’s IPS LCD screen. The 12-inch e-ink screen, meanwhile, has been updated to support full color and also includes front lighting. While e-ink screens that can show more than just black and white can be hit and miss, the inclusion really makes sense in a laptop that lets you use one as your primary display. Faded colors are still far more useful than no color, and if you want to switch from typing a document to watching a video, the OLED panel is just a tap away,
The ThinkBook Plus Twist also has some updated internals: You can get it with 13th-generation processors instead of 11th-generation ones, the webcam is now full HD instead of 720p, and it supports Wi-Fi 6E. However, it starts at $100 more than the previous version; the base configuration will cost $1,649 when the laptop is available in June.
Lenovo has announced an e-ink tablet called the Smart Paper, which appears to be aimed at Amazon’s writing-focused Kindle Scribe. Smart Paper has a 10.3-inch screen, a pen that doesn’t need to be recharged, and the ability to sense when the pen is tilted, as well as 4,096 levels of pressure.
The screen used by Lenovo, while not as pixel-dense as the Kindle’s, should have a high enough resolution for reading and writing at 1872 x 1404. It also has front lighting with adjustable color. Another cool trick is that Smart Paper can record audio as you take notes with a pen, and you’ll be able to hear exactly what’s being said as you write a specific note—a handy feature if you’re following along. meetings or lessons.
One of Scribe’s biggest annoyances is syncing, according to my colleague Alex Cranz’s review. Your notebooks are synced via the cloud, but the marks you make in PDFs or books aren’t. It seems that Smart Paper can solve this problem; Jeff Witt, a company spokesman, said The limit in an email that users will be able to import content in epub and pdf format. It also says that the Smart Paper app for Windows, Android and iOS devices will be able to sync books, notes and documents.
The company’s datasheet states that Smart Paper runs the open source version of Android 11, so it may be possible to load apps on it, whether or not it is. easy do is an open question.
At $399.99, the Smart Paper is more expensive than the cheapest Scribe you can get, which starts at $340 and includes a “basic” pen and 16GB of storage. However, Lenovo’s version comes with a case and has 50GB of storage. The Kindle, meanwhile, has a $390 32GB version and a $419 64GB version.
Smart Paper isn’t the only e-ink product Lenovo is announcing at CES — the company is also showing off a new generation of ThinkBook Plus, continuing the line of laptops with regular paper-like displays. With previous iterations, the e-ink panel was on the back of the lid, which meant you had to use it with the computer closed. Now, with the ThinkBook Plus Twist, the screen is on a hinge, which allows you to flip the e-ink screen and use it with the keyboard.
Both of the Twist’s screens are an upgrade over the 2021 ThinkBook Plus Gen 2: The 13.3-inch “main” screen appears to get a slight resolution bump to “2.8K” (a term Lenovo previously used for indicate a 2880 x 1800 screen) and will now feature a 60Hz OLED panel, compared to the previous version’s IPS LCD screen. The 12-inch e-ink screen, meanwhile, has been updated to support full color and also includes front lighting. While e-ink screens that can show more than just black and white can be hit and miss, the inclusion really makes sense in a laptop that lets you use one as your primary display. Faded colors are still far more useful than no color, and if you want to switch from typing a document to watching a video, the OLED panel is just a tap away,
The ThinkBook Plus Twist also has some updated internals: You can get it with 13th-generation processors instead of 11th-generation ones, the webcam is now full HD instead of 720p, and it supports Wi-Fi 6E. However, it starts at $100 more than the previous version; the base configuration will cost $1,649 when the laptop is available in June.
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