Onyx Boox 13.3 Inch e-Reader has a March Release Date

This must be top news in the ereader universe. Good the articles mentions what processor CPU Onyx have chosen with this device. Am I the only one thinking they should have opted for the new i.mx7 comming fresh and penciled for Q2 2016 release.
Whats to gain in performance by using 3+ years old cpu on a new system that has bigger screen size?
Yes I did email Onyx to make a new 13.3 device and I didi so to complain about the lack of innovation in the field…. Old processor in a new system is dead meat.

On a side note why is it so inconcievable to OEMs like Onyx, Amazon etc that people might want to swap screen sizes on a single device? We should be able to choose what screen size we want to use and swap to large/smaller when needed.
All scren sizes used in devices released in the past few years are supported by
The same processor and with built in EPDC controller….hardware is there today for screen swapping is my point.

As much as I want to have the Onyx 13.3″ device its already clear it wont be latest specs device and god knows whats lurking about the price tag.

At least they confirmed something kind of specific. Thats an achievment in its own right( if it pans out as promissed that is… too many delays already).

The whole ereader segment is somewhat held hostage on two monopolies. We have NXP/ Freescape monopoly on the ereader processor side and an eink monopoly on the epaper screen.
Whatever these two think is OK to give an ereader is what the public says thank you very much! – master.
Onyx, Pocketbook, Icarus, Kindle etc can flip a few switches on the software side and yet past experience shows that they all hit a roof with performance pretty soon and become more or less identical devices.

Freescales new processor i.mx7 specs and design lend some new possibilities but am I being opinionated by forecasting another 4-5 years of “no innovation cycle” in the EPDC processor segment? A cash cow so to say for the Freescale eink duo?

Freescale i.mx6 has a quadcore beast of a chip packed with features and so it happens it has no epaper support…same thing is to be found on the new i.mx7 version perhaps?

Apple- Mirasol, Amazon liquavista and whatever else still exists (no matter how sketchy) should do a home run in the segment.
My money goes to them if any of them reach market…

Then ofcourse 3d printing has exploded in unforeseeable Ways/ direction(s) and magnitude. It has also become a “home desk/garage affair” now.
Its pointless to be clinging on to old ideas about manufacturing your own product.
The ereader plethora needs a new business model to ride on the waves of innovation. A license for home production of epaper is a lot more inline with reality.

P.S. Eink do not deal with “individual” requests…thats what I was told when asking for more detailed and specific product information.
OK Eink. I am a startup now, can I please get a foot in the door?
Not before a flury of questions ,few if any of which relate to the developer side.
Yes, Eventually the response was : Sure , what do you want….

Feels a lot easier to get a working Eink product and bypass all the unnecessary jumping hooks.

I approached Eink to help me with a trial concept to modify an existing device to accept HDMI input. Did some research on the processor side and everything points that it is indeed possible.The abillity, to be able to just plug in any HDMI dongle( Android, Linux, Windows 10, …), laptop etc to a “kindle like” modified device retaining its native OS (Like kindle FireOS) appeals to me.
Touch screen connectivity can be USB exported back to dongle OS.

Yes I am aware that ereader eink screens today wobble on basic scrolling, screen flashing and what not. HDMI sounds like a bad idea but Dasung Paperlike 13.3 ” acts as an external monitor using USB.

This might just be an idea worth trying, No?

Which type of screen does this ereader has ? Plastic or glass ?

(585€)

Guys, fancy a peek? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ZwqIAn-ME

This is really exciting. I have been waiting for a decent e-reader since I worked at a textbook publisher in 1998-2000 and saw how bad the first e-readers were back then. Awful. I said so at a meeting and it was not appreciated by the tech department. I was 100% right.

What was needed was this:

1) No glowing light-emitting screens, they are murder on the eyes and affect the ability to tuck into long documents or books. Regular paper blows all glowing screens away to this day for resolution, ease of use, and easiness on the brain and eyes. E-ink screens have now 90% solved this problem and are getting better every year, and use far less power.

2) Large size. Sorry, for most documents/books/magazines etc even a decent paperback size screen is too cramped and annoying. Good for paperback reading. Not for technical PDF or textbook pages. 13″ screens are the minimum. Now we have them.

3) Decent resolution. Obviously a higher resolution has more processing issues, but there is a minimum you need. This 207 ppi seems to hit the sweet spot.

4) Be able to handle multiple formats natively. PDF with all bookmarks. Kindle. Etc. This e-reader, unlike the SONY, seems to be able to do that.

5) Affordability. That seems to have been a careful consideration here. This probably could have been built five years ago but would have cost $6,000. They seem to have brought this right down.

6) Ability to annotate, flag, highlight, and make notes with them, on blank pages but also on documents. That appears to be a full part of this.

I can’t wait. I’ll be one of the first adopters. I read PDFs all day long and this will make my life a thousand times easier. I literally print out lots of pdfs because I can’t read them on IPad type screens and e-readers were too small. The idea they will now be readable in the right format and size is incredibly exciting. I held off the Sony because I was worried that it was not flexible enough to read multiple formats and also may not handle PDF bookmarks.

This may be the revolution we have been waiting all these years for. People can finally create e-journalism, e-magazines, e-newspapers etc that will be extensively read and delivered overnight electronically. You sit down with your morning coffee and read away.

Later improvements would be:

1) Higher resolution.
2) Full color.
3) Gizmos/apps to make it easier to use and integrate with work.
4) Bluetooth and wifi stuff so you could pay music to your bluetooth headphones while you read.
5) Getting rid of that annoying flash as you change pages.

The revolution starts now. Cross your fingers.

Is the CPU really that big of a deal? What would the new processor get us that would be that big of a deal? Instant page turns or just a shade faster? Its always nice to have extra processing power, but I think we exaggerate it’s importance.

On the other hand, clearly if we can get a full color, high resolution, fast e-paper reader, it would change the world in important ways. In a sense, we could get back to the quality that paper has given us for so many years and free writers and creators of content from the tyranny of glowing small screens that make reading such a chore and so choppy these days.

We could get back some of our ability to sit, stop, think, read and concentrate. Maybe one day the glowing screen will vanish. Good riddance other than for movies.

I’m still kind of skeptic about this product. I have a onyx boox m96+, which seems like a smaller version of the “max”. The m96 is barely usable as a reader. E.g. the rendering of some pdf documents are a bit random (texts around the edges are often fainter) and you have to often fiddling with the contrast, the interface is unresponsive so things like highligting text is really tricky. And there are also some other minor hardware/software issues.

If “the max” had the same quality as a kindle then this would be an easy choice. But the “vertical line in the video makes me think it has the same low quality as the m96.

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