Supernote’s new E Ink tablet is upgradeable and repairable

Supernote has announced its caller A5 X2 Manta E Ink tablet that could beryllium a imaginable alternate to the reMarkable 2 for those wanting a larger surface and a instrumentality that tin beryllium easy upgraded and repaired. It’s available present for $459, thing of a leap from the $379 reMarkable 2. The second besides includes a stylus, portion the Supernote A5 X2 requires you to supply your ain — oregon spend astatine slightest different $59 to bargain 1 of the company’s pens (which, according to Supernote, don’t request charging and are fitted with ceramic tips that won’t deterioration down).

On the different hand, the caller tablet is precise fixable. A sheet connected the backmost of the Supernote A5 X2 tin beryllium removed without tools, giving speedy entree to immoderate of the tablet’s interior components. This includes its 3,600mAh battery, which tin beryllium replaced erstwhile it loses capableness oregon stops charging, and the A5 X2’s motherboard, perchance allowing for show improvements oregon caller features down the roadworthy without having to regenerate the full device. There’s besides a microSD slot that tin usage a representation paper to grow the A5 X2’s retention from 32GB up to 2TB.

The 10.7-inch 300 ppi E Ink surface connected the Supernote A5 X2 is larger and has much solution than the reMarkable 2’s 10.3-inch 266 ppi panel, but similar the four-year-old reMarkable, the A5 X2 skips surface lighting for what the institution calls an improved penning acquisition and a “true insubstantial look successful earthy light.” That could beryllium a pugnacious merchantability erstwhile alternatives similar the Amazon Kindle Scribe and the Kobo Elipsa 2E tin beryllium easy utilized successful the dark. Even reMarkable now offers an E Ink tablet with an illuminated screen.

Powered by a 1.8GHz RK3566 quad-core processor, the Supernote A5 X2 runs a customized Android 11-based OS called Chauvet that supports features similar two-finger gestures and offline handwriting designation that tin person your notes to editable text. The tablet besides has Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, allowing documents to beryllium synced done cloud-based services similar Dropbox oregon Google Drive, oregon to beryllium transferred straight to different devices wirelessly utilizing an accompanying mobile app. For other security, you tin adjacent plug a flash thrust into the A5 X2’s USB-C charging larboard and transportation files manually.

Other features see touch-sensitive strips connected the bezels connected either broadside of the surface that tin beryllium utilized to scroll agelong papers and a cloth loop for storing a stylus that tin besides beryllium removed entirely.