E Ink faces growing competition in the "paper-like" display space

Re:E Ink faces growing competition in the "paper-like" displ... by fsflover on Sunday September 01, 2024 @06:21AM (#41415687)

> It would be nice to see somebody do a device that isn't crippled in terms of hardware and software.

Have a look at PineNote.

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Re:E Ink faces growing competition in the "paper-like" displ... by jillesvangurp on Sunday September 01, 2024 @06:41AM (#41415779)

> Powered by a powerful and efficient RK3566 SoC with four A55 cores, and backed by 4GBs of RAM and 128GBs of eMMC storage

Exactly what I mean by anemic. The only likable thing in that device is the screen.

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Re:E Ink faces growing competition in the "paper-like" displ... by user_7832 on Sunday September 01, 2024 @07:20AM (#41415957)

Likely not the reply you were looking for, but in theory a PineNote would be a great "donor" device for modification. For example - get your favorite SBC (Raspberry 5?), figure out how to connect it (likely eDP, documentation shouldn't be hard), make a new shell/body and you're done!

...If you have the technical know-how, time, space, tools and motivation of course.

It's not that no one does such stuff (see r/cyberdeck), but yeah admittedly if you're not an engineer it likely isn't the easiest.

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Re:E Ink faces growing competition in the "paper-like" displ... by not_your_vase on Sunday September 01, 2024 @10:45AM (#41417371)

It has been sold out since years, and the Pine folks said most probably will never make another batch (they complain that it was their worst selling device ever, and they don't want to make any more before full software support).

I tried to get one since years for fun. The only one that I found that was also shipped to my place was in China, and the seller asked for $1000 (+shipping) for it. I passed. And slowly giving up on buying one.

(Also, with it's RPi3-ish SoC it is not really a laptop replacement)

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