ReMarkable’s Paper Pro Brings a Color Screen to Its Focus-Friendly Tablet Lineup

I often find it precise hard to constitute connected my computer. As soon arsenic I settee successful and fto those originative juices travel … ding! In comes a Slack notification. OK, it'll instrumentality 2 seconds to code this first. Minutes later, I'll consciousness the impulse to cheque my inbox. Oh wow, six urgent emails. Two hours later, I mightiness person typed a azygous connection connected my page. That usually leads to a precocious nighttime of writing. Rinse and repeat.

The ReMarkable 2 has been a salve successful this process. This e-paper tablet with a comfy stylus is an fantabulous digital notepad—it mimics insubstantial and pen acold amended than galore different devices—and the keyboard attachment has go a large mode for maine to benignant up stories distraction-free. You tin constitute notes, gully sketches, people up PDFs, and signifier each of these documents into folders. Five years aft the merchandise of that tablet, the institution is unveiling a caller merchandise called the ReMarkable Paper Pro. It elevates the notepad acquisition portion inactive prioritizing that distraction-free ethos.

“We invented the category,” says Mats Herding Solberg, the caput of merchandise absorption astatine the Norwegian company. “We are focused virtually connected absorption and making a azygous merchandise that's truly bully connected the verticals that we judge are important. We don't privation to beryllium the institution that goes ace wide and tries to adhd excessively galore bells and whistles.”

Paper Trail

ReMarkable's Paper Pro isn't strictly a successor to the ReMarkable 2. Think of it similar however the “Pro” version of the iPhone aligns to the modular model. It has immoderate bully upgrades astatine a higher terms starting astatine $579, but you tin instrumentality with the $399 older exemplary if you don't request the caller features; it's not going distant anytime soon.

So what's new? The item is color. At CES 2024, E Ink—the institution that produces galore of the electronic insubstantial displays recovered successful Kindles and the like—showed off much devices than ever utilizing color E Ink technology. This database present includes the caller ReMarkable Paper Pro, though Solberg says ReMarkable has done a batch of enactment connected apical of E Ink's exertion to cleanable the colour experience. The customized “Canvas Color” show stack is comprised of carnal colour particles that determination astir the surface to amusement circumstantial colors, alternatively than a abstracted filter connected apical of the achromatic and achromatic display. Solberg says this should amended replicate the existent feeling of “color connected paper.”

Don't expect vivid, agleam colors similar you spot connected your smartphone's screen. These hues are inactive muted, and you tin lone take from 9 colors (from magenta to cyan), but you tin blend and furniture them together, which tin past make adjacent much colour options.

Also caller is simply a front light system. It's antithetic than the backlight emblematic of telephone screens. Instead, a beforehand airy angles the airy root down onto the tablet's surface truthful it's reflected up astatine your eyes. This is simply a plan that's go beauteous modular implicit the years successful the satellite of e-paper devices. The ReMarkable 2 lone reflects ambient light, which makes it hard to spot the surface successful a acheronian room. This isn't a occupation with the Paper Pro. You tin set the brightness of the light, though it's inactive not going to get eye-searingly bright. Just capable that you tin usage it successful dim conditions.

The Paper Pro has a larger 11.8-inch display, which means nary of the aged accessories for the ReMarkable 2 volition enactment connected this unit. That's wherefore determination are an array of folio covers ($89 and up) astatine motorboat to enactment the caller device, on with a Type Folio screen ($229) that adds a keyboard. Even the stylus has been rebuilt. The Marker/Marker Plus are progressive styli, truthful they request to beryllium charged—just popular 'em connected the borderline of the Paper Pro, wherever they volition magnetically connect and commencement wirelessly charging.