Supernote A6X2: Real-World Usability of Hardware Keyboards
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00:00 Intro
02:26 Connectivity
03:34 Language Layouts
05:17 General Usage
10:25 Typing Test
13:32 Typing Precision and Responsiveness
15:11 Text Navigation, Selection, and Formatting
20:20 Real-World Usability
26:31 Conclusion
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Well, the time has come to revisit the real-world usability of hardware keyboards on Supernote devices and platform. Up until now, this was the Achilles heel of the platform, as the Supernote devices never had good results in this department. Let's see if things have changed, and what the reality of the situation is now :)
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Thank you! I especially enjoyed your comments on the input device. The Freewite is also "for those who write", but with a keyboard instead of a stylus. I'm looking forward to Supernote recognizing this and expanding into the market they already think they are in..
Your content is phenomenal. Thank you for being here to counter the fakeness of other youtubers i shall not mention
Hello Voja, first of all thanks for all the work with your videos, they are really helpful. I hope to bye a supernote A5X2 as soon as it comes out.
We could say that the keyboard connection is good, but the supernote word app is missing a lot of functionality, but that is the suppernote word app.
So I was thinking, as side loading is now possible, would it be possible to sideload an android text editor app that has better support for keyboard typing?
Or maybe, could we sideload Microsoft Word app for android?
This is a great review, as always. I will be interested to see when they re-release the new desktop app if it helps with some of this. When I tested the early beta, they had a bit of work to do. The idea of using your PC as a gateway to connect the keyboard over Wifi was cool. In theory, you could set up formatting on a document in Word and do a lot of editing or plain text typing in the Supernote. The other nice thing is that it could with the global keyboard for naming notes, annotating PDF's, etc.
And another fair and square review. Detailed but not exhaustive and it is conclusive.
Really good.
Surely the keyboard topic will see some love.
Personally I find Ratta's approach to avoid being "hybrid" appealing.
Rather than making the device for every scenario, they prefer to stick to the core aspects.
But typing is considered writing too! And so it is absolutely justified to fairly highlight the shortcomings in this regard.
While other devices have better results in terms of typing performance and diverse functionality I feel they have run into other issues. Colors, battery life, mimicking laptops etc.
And they don't really know how to forge their own identity around e-ink. They simply rely on the advancement of hardware (CPU, gpu, RAM, battery).
The result might be that e-ink will no longer be e-ink and this individual branch of technological development will obliterate itself because it is too close to normal Tablets/Laptops.
Cheers
I very much appreciate your detailed evaluation of the products that you review. Now that the Supernote supports sideloading, I would be very interested in apps that have been sideloaded and have proven to be usable. Perhaps you could spread the load by collaborating with some of the other e-ink gurus on UA-cam. Thank you!
I agree with all of this. Their excuse of “well this is a writers only tablet” is frustrating. They have a written note to text, but you can’t allow me to type… makes no sense.
Also, everything you said I would love, but even more is to allow text boxes in the .note files. It’s their own proprietary format, and they could even make another .notex format or something that allows both handwriting and typed text because then you could still have links which are so useful. I think this is such a huge opportunity for Supernote. They have so many things right, but the things they have wrong are really really poorly designed and make you want to reach for other devices. The whole point I got this device is to eliminate the iPads and MacBooks in my life for productivity purposes and typing is a huge part of that
Yep agree with all these points positive and negative. Currently pretty much unusable because the interface is not consistent. Typing in email is similarly not great. They really could have just implemented the Android version.
You should consider doing a video with these same test, but in a .txt file instead of in a .docx file. It turns out that .txt files work much better for typing with a bluetooth keyboard on the Supernote A6X2 than .docx files do currently.
Thank you for this! It's like you've been reading my mind lately with this video and the "best device for a PhD student" video. One quick question I have: In terms of the raw typing experience (responsiveness, accuracy, etc.) how would you say the updated X2 typing experience compares to those on the Boox and Remarkable devices? I ask only about the raw experience because, with Ratta's excellent track record, I can only imagine that they will address the other keyboard functionality issues in fairly short order. Thanks again!
Honestly, on the X2 it just works, like it does on the other two as well. The latency is the same as if you'd keep a Boox device on Normal or HD refresh mode and seems similar to the Remarkable. But those are all just personal impressions. Hmmm, does this warrant a high speed measurement comparison in milliseconds nerdout video? I think so!
@@MyDeepGuide How exciting! I'll be looking very much forward to what promises to be an exceptionally thorough and exceptionally nerdy video :)
In the roadmap, "E2.5.2 Spanish/Portuguese/Northern Europe/Czech Republic virtual keyboard" is "In progress" but it has been so for a long time. I hope it also includes external keyboard layouts. It would have been really nice to have a markdown editor on the Supernote for sunny summer days, but any editor with normal behaviour would be nice. So far my conclusion is that it is an E (a failure but giving it the passing grade E since it let me connect my keyboard and registers keypresses).
My hope is that they fix the layout, and that I then can sideload a decent markdown editor.
In my case, I'd only use the Supernote to type if used as an external monitor with my Mac, and as far as I understand it, thats not possible.
When typing I *heavily rely on the mouse/trackpad,* and unlike most, use one finger with a thumb continuously hovering over the shift key to capitalise, so I'm not too fussed about these issues, but if I could use all fingers, then I see and understand why Supernote needs to address them.
Hello Voja, thanks a lot for these very informative and interessting videos...
Could you please answer, how the Nomad-series behave with a wired keyboard (I dont like wireless too much ;) )
Thank you very much.
Greetings, Franz
Agreed here! Would love to see if that makes any of this better
But what would behave better? The precision and reliability is already great, and any potential latency differences between a wireless and a wired keyboard will be completely impossible to notice because the screen latency is way slower than that difference will ever be. So the device will physically be unable to show the difference between a wireless and a wired keyboard :)
my biggest problem - in notes you can only use stylus, not keyboard mix. In DOC - only keyboard or handwriting->characters but no notes.
Feels like they don't have the resources as a company to implement all the features users would like. I assume it's on their 'to do' list
I was able to download the French canadian keyboard but software only. I only have English layout on the Bluetooth keyboard don’t have any way to change it. Does someone know how to change it?
You're amazing, Voja! Unlike the arrogant Remarkable team, they are very responsive to consumer reactions and feedback, which is great. With the renewed A5 model, I hope they'll release a new keyboard as well. They should indeed increase the language options as you suggested. With love from Turkey.
Do you have a video where you analyse the same features on Boox devices?
Yes l, but it is not up to date, so that would warrant a revisit as well.
ua-cam.com/video/2EPTyJ-RMGc/v-deo.html