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At its caller September hardware launch, Amazon showcased its 2 caller e-readers designed for note-taking: the Kindle Scribe and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, solidifying its presumption successful the premium insubstantial tablet market.
The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is the archetypal full-color note-taking e-reader Kindle and competes against the ReMarkable Paper Pro, a colorized insubstantial tablet and fantastic instrumentality successful its ain close with a stalwart pursuing for its robust diagnostic acceptable and creaseless penning experience.
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Both the ReMarkable Paper Pro and Amazon's caller Scribe Colorsoft purpose for the precocious extremity of the originative productivity market, with the Scribe Colorsoft starting astatine $630 and disposable aboriginal this year, and the ReMarkable Paper Pro starting astatine $675.
Neither of these tablets is cheap, truthful what's the quality betwixt them? Let's analyse immoderate of the main features.
The penning experience
When it comes to pen-to-paper emulation, some tablets win successful delivering a satisfying penning acquisition with their ain versions of textured glass, premium pencils, backlit displays, and colour screens.
ZDNET's Nina Raemont precocious tested retired the 11-inch Kindle Scribe Colorsoft and noted the tablet's creaseless texture-molded solid that improves the pen's friction. In addition, the tablet's accrued representation (32GB oregon 64GB) results successful zero lag from the pen to the surface, adjacent with accelerated movements.
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The ReMarkable Paper Pro has a somewhat larger 11.8-inch show and uses existent ink particles held unneurotic successful chambers that individually power each pixel. It besides has a dithered colour strategy that mixes RGBCYM pixels with blacks and whites to make customized colors that are much muted and person a earthy palette.
The penning acquisition connected the Paper Pro is top-tier, responding to the question of the stylus successful subtle ways that consciousness realistic and responsive. Both tablets person akin exertion for a constricted array of colors, utilizing shading and colour combinations to supply much options.
App integrations
Both tablets person fantastic penning experiences, but it's the app integrations that marque them practical. The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft syncs with Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive and volition diagnostic an AI-powered hunt (through the cloud). Later this year, Amazon volition present integrations with Alexa.
Obviously, Amazon's tablet besides integrates with its immense e-book ecosystem, which makes it the amended prime if you're looking for a tablet to people up each your favourite e-books.
The ReMarkable Paper Pro besides features a robust lineup of integrations, including the 2 antecedently mentioned and a precise important one: Slack. With a fewer taps, you tin nonstop sketches and notes straight to Slack, which is simply a standout diagnostic for me.
Paired with the ReMarkable Connect subscription service, you tin get unlimited unreality retention and entree to ReMarkable's full ecosystem of templates, which includes lists, calendars, flowcharts, and storyboarding materials. These thoughtfully designed templates promote exploration.
Which signifier origin is for you?
The ReMarkable Paper Pro Move
The previous-gen Kindle Scribe resembled a expanse of notebook paper, with 1 broadside of the tablet thicker than the other. The caller exemplary opts for a sleeker look, with each 4 bezels the aforesaid size and a stronger magnet for the stylus, which I noted was a small finicky and prone to falling off.
Conversely, the ReMarkable Paper Pro is simply a small much sleek, adjacent though it's somewhat thicker and heavier. ReMarkable besides has a bully postulation of high-quality woven cloth and genuine leather cases that lend to the device's wide premium aesthetic.
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The ReMarkable Paper Pro besides comes successful a second, much compact signifier factor: the Paper Pro Go, which is astir the size of a notepad -- a unique, 7.7-inch tablet for enactment takers, journalists, oregon designers looking for an expressly portable insubstantial tablet.
In presumption of dimensions, the caller Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is 5.4mm bladed and weighs 0.8 pounds (14.1 ounces), portion the ReMarkable Paper Pro is 5.1mm bladed and weighs 1.16 pounds (18.56 ounces).
ZDNET's buying advice
Both tablets are comparable erstwhile it comes to the premium penning experience. You'll acquisition nary lag and smooth, realistic pen-to-paper and a enactment of colors connected both. The ReMarkable Paper Pro has a somewhat much textured surface, and it's larger -- offering a small much workspace.
The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft connects with Amazon's ecosystem, making it the amended prime for anyone who already has an extended room and wants to instrumentality notes connected e-books. The ReMarkable Paper Pro, however, has its ain unsocial ecosystem with templates, an AI-powered search, and seamless integration with Slack. Plus, it comes successful 2 sizes.
The ReMarkable's carnal signifier feels a small much premium to maine (and it's a small much expensive), which contributes to the wide experience. However, arsenic it hasn't been released yet, I haven't had a accidental to trial retired the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft for an extended play of time. Stay tuned for further updates.
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