A RECYCLED E-NOTE Arrives | Kobo Elipsa 2E Review
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- The Rakuten Kobo Elipsa 2e is their second shot at a large-screen e-paper display that is primarily geared towards taking notes, freehand drawing, annotating PDF files and editing ebooks. There have been a few massive improvements to this model, that the first-generation Elipsa did not have. The front-lit display has been upgraded from a Comrtfortlight to Comfortlight Pro, providing better illumination for warm and cool colours. The Kobo Pen has been redesigned, it is 25% lighter, making it easier to hold for long writing sessions, a dedicated eraser at the top, is a great way to remove errant mistakes. There is a new processor architecture, providing a huge increase in single-core speed and increasing power efficiency.
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Great video, highly expected here, thanks for a full review of the product!
Wonderful review! I need one of those!
Thank you so much
Kobo has hands down the best user experience IMO. Kindle has a better finish and build quality, but I don't see myself moving away from the freedom and the usability Kobo gives me.
The remarkable 2 seems to be what I'm going to go for... the 'feels like paper' writing experience and the no distractions part of it is really the selling point.
What are your thoughts about the laggy stylus as compared to the competition?
@@JeffVan604 I didn't had the chance to use the remarkable nor the new kindle scribe, but the writing experience wasn't the top priority for me. But I think this version only came to fix previous issues with the writing, doesn't it?
@@IvanPauletti 2E's stylus is definitely a step up from the original. But if you compare it to its competitor's offerings, the 2E simply has the worst stylus lag out there. At least that's what I'm seeing from different reviewers.
Awesome to hear about the recycled bit! Also interesting to hear about dark mode, didn’t know it could work well with ereader screens!
No idea how is that important. We waste so much plastic on one-use stuff like groceries and then we will use few dozen grams of "recycled" plastic on expensive device that should last for years. What is the point except it sounds good?
Wow!! It’s perfect and it will be my birthday present. My birthday is May but the Elipsa2e will come out on April 19tn. So I can wait a little longer. I know it will be my birthday present because I asked for it
I've been buying kobo for a few years now, as I much prefer the layout over the kindle for the reasons you mentioned. Kobo aren't trying to sell me stuff all the time.
thanks for mentioning how environmentally friendly it is. More companies should follow suit.
That recycled plastic really makes the reading and writing experience better...right.
No idea how is that important. We waste so much plastic on one-use stuff like groceries and then we will use few dozen grams of "recycled" plastic on expensive device that should last for years. What is the point except it sounds good?
Love it can’t wait for mine. It’s too bad it doesn’t come with the cover as the first one does and I might prefer the feel of the original pen.
Awesome review!! I can't wait for mine to arrive.. How's the writing compared to the old elipsa? Is it better? Elipsa 1 tends to get laggy when writing long notes, is the elipsa 2 much faster now? Thanks!
This is something I would really like to see a more in depth look at. Feature wise the elipsa 2 looks perfect for me, but I would really like to know more about: what is the pen latency? How does it compare to the scribe and remarkable 2? Is the writing feel similar to an ipad with pencil? Is it useable for prolonged note taking?
What are your thoughts about the laggy stylus (even in the 2E) as compared to the competition?
@@JeffVan604 hey, I can help with this since I ended up getting an elipsa 2e!
In short, I lagginess is worse than the remarkable 2, but not a lot worse. I write happily and I never felt the latency to be an issue. Overall I'm very happy with the product. There are some gotchas, however:
Occasionally I've experienced slowdown when writing. Usually on PDFs and epubs. Locking and unlocking the screen sorts this out.
Occasionally, the stylus is detected before touching the screen. Pressing the refresh page solves the issue.
For note taking, it fully fulfills my needs. I love using it for reading as well. The number one thing I would love to see is the ability to set the line thickness on the pdf reader. For academic reading it is too thick and that means I need to switch to a notebook if I want any serious note taking to happen.
@@ptMaV that's what i was worried about. If we need to open up a separate thing to take serious notes on an ebook anyway, that simply renders the ONE selling feature of the Elipsa (writing directly on the ebooks) completely pointless.
@@JeffVan604 it really is up to what you're looking after. Writing on the ebook is more than fine. I'd argue it is as good as writing on an actual book, with the advantage of being able to change text settings to leave space on the margins and between lines for you to write on.
If the ability to have sticky notes like the scribe is more appealing to you, unfortunately that seems to be the only option as of now.
Hi, can you tell me what firmware version does it come with?
Is there a game included like chess or checkers?
Vs Kobo sage ( exept thé différent format and audio part ) what do you thank ? Thanks for your work
We have a lot of different comparisons coming up soon :-)
Thank very much for the review, but I don't see you commenting on the new processor. It has a mediatek core inside, I wanna know if it improves the performance and the autonomy.
The autonomy issue is one of the greatest reasons why I didn't change my Kobo Forma for a Sage. If there's an Elipsa, obviously there would be a new Sage 2e. I wanna know if I'm correctly hyped for it.
we are going to muscle-measure when we get to the Elipsa 1vs2 :)
Kobo Elipsa 2E versus Lenovo Smart Paper?
Can you attach a keyboard and type long documents?
But the outcome of the equasion at 11:25 seems wrong to me
I'm a psychologist looking for moving from paper to digital not caring much about the "feeling of the pen experience" and caring more about latency and smothness experience of the tablet itself. Would you recommend this to me?
Look at the Remarkable 2. It has has the best writing experience, hands down...
@@zenlayman i just bought the supernote A5X
@@angelsolano2829 the supernote is solid, too. I rank it a close second. Others like it better than the RM2. Regardless, it's a solid choice and you should be happy.
the Kobo Forma, which came out about 4 years ago, has better dpi (300). Why did Kobo choose to give this Elipsa 2e just 227 DPI?
Perhaps less pixel give you a fast refresh rate of the screen and more battery. You don't need such detail in a electric ink device.
Good effort in trying to be more environmentally friendly... but I think they kinda messed up with the choice of pen there. Getting users to use their pen that has an additional battery inside is not exactly environmental. It adds to the production of more batteries and more electronic waste. Using standard Wacom pen (that can also provide a similar or better writing experience) is definitely a “greener” choice. But then again, they may have a lot of pens leftover from previous model lying around unsold. Who am I to comment on this? 😅
the pen from the previous gen uses aaaa batteries but the new one has a rechargeable battery
@@sant_vauls so ok then they replaced a battery with…. Another battery. Potato potato
Should've waited for this for my STEM classes instead of getting the boox :(
Thanks, the moment the presentator said, it feels like plastic writing in plastic. I will pass on this one. I'm looking for e ink that no distraction focus only in reading and writing with a good feels.
I dont like android on e-ink as it will just distract me with so many apps available on Playstore and will drain the battery more.
Now, I need to dig deeper with Remarkable 2 vs Kindle Scribe.
Why is this device not having a 300ppi pixel density?
A very well known reviewer showed that the first version WOULD NOT highlight a pdf in a standard way. You failed to show whether 2E has fixed this.
Sounds good, hit up the very well-known reviewer for questions :-)
Your not writing on an ebook your writing on a screen shot overlay
I like Sony product ....
Yes Sony is nice :)
Why are you showing up front the features that EVERY SINGLE KOBO has? Who CARES? Has the WRITING EXPERIENCE been improved? That's what we want to know!
:)
I think the recycled plastic case is ok but they should really be using aluminium or something for that. Cut off the manufacturing of virgin plastics entirely and use the recycled plastic for things that have to be plastic. Especially because they can only be remade twice or so before they get really degraded and can only be used for insulation or things like that. And once we have replaced that virgin plastic with plant based alternatives or whatever we do, then presumably it would be far easier to keep recycling that kind of material. Maybe you could eventually compost it. But the key thing is to stop making new plastic. Use up the recycled plastic as much as we can and move on.
Kobo is negligent and fails to save notes or even bookmarks. Don’t trust this mole.