I feel it’s been too long since I last covered an E-Ink reader. That’s why today we address the PocketBook InkPad One. This one is a 10.3 inch E-Ink Writing tablet, that has been freshly detailed and preiced. It’s below $400!
This machine is a touchscreen device, that comes with an active stylus, which allows to take notes and draw on the screen. The product comes from the Swiss eReader company PocketBook and uses hardware that’s a bit older. Launched in Europe in February, the InkPad One is now available in SUA for $359. However, I should mention that it packs an E-Ink Mobius Display, which debuted in 2013 and a Rockchip processor, the RK3566, which debuted in 2020.
Also, there’s the problem of ppi. Most E Ink devices today have display with 300 pixels per inch, but this one has 226 ppi. It also supports 16 shades of grey and has a front light. Plus the panel is a 10.3 incher, with a 1404 x 1872 pixel resolution. Should be enough for reading and writing text-based documents, which is what it was designed for. The RK3566 processor is a quad core ARM Cortex-A55 chip, with Mali-G52 MP2 graphics, coupled with 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage, as well as a 3700 mAh battery.
There’s also an USB-C port and no SD card reader for extra storage, just so you know. It also doesn’t run on Android, so you won’t be able to load the Amazon Kindle Android app for example. It does have a Linux-based OS, with support for eBooks with Adobe DRM and DRM-free documents. It supports formats like MP3, M4A, OGG, JPG, BMP and TIFF. There’s also other basic features, like an RSS reader, web browser and games like Sudoku and Chess.
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