Re:CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet
by sydd on Sunday March 21, 2021 @06:12PM
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This looks great! Except that the sizes are not my favourite... a 6" one and a 9.7" one.. I think the ideal size for a small tablet/ebook reader is 8". Also I dislike the huge bezels of the devices, I wonder if it would be possible to make with minimal bezels.
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Re:CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet
by solarkraft on Monday March 22, 2021 @06:17AM
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This is one of my main motivations. I also hate bezels. Unfortunately there's just no touch layer that would allow small ones :(
If you want an 8" device there's a fairly good market around 300€ already, with my favorite being the Kobo Forma and the Kindle Oasis also being worth a look (along with some others). Both have fairly small bezels on 3 sides and a thick one on one for holding.
My dream would look about like those devices, but yeah - the touch panel issue. I can't imagine a decent UX just based on buttons yet. One possible way forward is finding/making/retrofitting a reader app that is buttom navigable and maybe having a thinkpad nib as a fallback, but I'm not too sure about that since it'd compromise the UX fairly significantly, I'd say.
There is a new 8" tablet with e-reader and note taking capability with color e-ink from Onyx [1].