Onyx Boox Note Air 3 C - The E-Ink Tablet You've Been Waiting For?

Onyx books not a 3C and this is my full review I've been using the not a 3C from Onyx books as my daily planner and my productivity tablet at work and at home for the last 3 weeks and I'm very impressed you can see the journey that I've gone on with this device in lots of my content on this channel including in-depth live streams feature demonstrations and discussions of where this sits in the current state of being tablets this is undoubtedly one of the best deing tablets to date and this is the latest in a line of devices from onyx books which have enjoyed massive popularity books are doing their very best to dispel the myth that iink is slow and they're doing that better than any other company they've found a way to make iink respond with lightning fast speeds and high refresh rates with very little loss of clarity or image retention and they've put in some higher end processors here making this a device which spans the categories of e-reader note taking tablet and productivity machine key features of this are this matte and textured screen protector here it makes it a wonderful place for reading and writing and drawing there's very little glare as well and it's got a great pen and Screen feel it is an enjoyable surface to write on it's got that tactile feel of quality pencils and the tools are improving all the time for instance we now have a proper pencil with both pressure and tilt has frozen up it does it more often than previous books devices did I have since found that this only happens with the new pencil with texture with both pressure and tilt so for now just stay away from using that tool if you don't want your device to crash I have let books know and I'm sure they will fix this and I will do a video at some point drawing on the No a3c so at that point I hope to be able to tell you that that is now solved but for now use the older pencil or just use the pen tools and it is still a great place to draw on and you can be sure that it isn't just going to crash and lose your notes and it thinks it's fully restarted although it is there oh and it didn't save that note I just made don't know whether I'll leave that crash in in the sake of fairness or the thing is you see those things in live streams the S of flowing in this video review along maybe not you see it doesn't some shading will make it think that scribble is on so I'll turn that off okay that's been a bit of a surprise it's crashed twice whilst I've been drawing on it okay a few frustrating little bits with it today what I will say is I have used this at work and I have only found it actually crash with me when I've been doing a live stream and when I was filming this video so it has been stable it has worked perfectly fine for my use case at work and I did use it for two solid weeks and I did not find that it crashed it woke up every single time and you can see my two weeks of planning if you like here as my notebook it did what it claims to do and I didn't get any crashes during the week I wonder if there's just something with that notebook with the new pen tools that's perhaps making it a bit unstable and they will fix that in an update but although those pen tools are improved they're not as good as the best in the class on for instance the Scribe the pencil tool is fantastic and they're remarkable too the note taking app is fully featured it's good for drawing and for organizing all of your notes I really want to see books bring a drawing focused app such that large amounts of notes that's the issue there that actually drawing is a lot more Strokes than simply writing would be so we also need an app not just that can handle layers and all of the colors the thing can produce and lots of different texture brushes we need an app that's stable there for drawing as well it is a fully featured not taking app with all of these tools for you to be able to link between Pages or between files even and what's more the screen response is lightning fast and please remember that that is in the books note taking app in other drawing apps you don't get that kind of fast response within the not taking app it's one of the fastest latencies on the market latency means the time between the pen actually hitting the screen and the ink [Music] appearing you don't even you need to write in the Box for example to get the handwriting recognition to work when you're in the handwriting recognition keyboard the whole thing is just a canvas for writing so you can see that the screen response is just nowhere near as good in SketchBook or any third party app designed for LCD screens I do also love the vertical screen mode you could pair this with a mechanical keyboard a Bluetooth mechanical keyboard or indeed a wired one that could go into the USB here and this could become a really nice place for typing I don't have a mechanical keyboard in front of me just now but I can show you just how quickly it [Music] connects the screen response is very good for typing too you have one of the best stations for typing on the ink around and I also like that you can continue to use the onscreen keyboard and use the voice recognition and then just use the keyboard for editing the text something I use all the time the cido free screen is wonderful for different productivity amps but if you were going to be using productivity amps for more than 90% of the time I would recommend having a look at the tab Ultra SE Pro instead it has a clearer screen finish it has a built-in keyboard a faster processor and an increasing RAM and that's going to give you that smoother experience with clearer visuals on a productivity orientated device that being said it's still a better productivity device than most rival eing tablets overall I'm rating the not FC as above the books tab X for professionals that's the larger 13.3 in device and it's an amazing tablet this device can be so very versatile for you the book super refresh and the collider free screen are a match made in heaven you can just see the way it's clearing out that white space immediately without having to do a full screen refresh but for work really is the tab ultr line with a keyboard case and now even a trackpad on the pro model which is the home of the ink for productivity so stay tuned for a video where I'll compare the books tab Ultra C with this the not f3c I personally cannot wait for books to bring us a 25.3 in in monitor with this GPU acceleration so that we can all use the best of the operating systems for professionals so use Windows or use Mac OS and surely that can't be too far away you know at that point then the battery life isn't something to worry about anymore because it is the case that for certain apps generally when the screen is running at very high refresh rates then you're going to be using the battery life quite quickly so for just reading as a Kindle actually is quite low battery drain certainly for having the brightness of the lights above 50% increases the battery drain quite considerably and you're going to want to run the lights reasonably bright most of the time because the darkness of the coloring screen I tend to run them about there about 2/3 some new features in the latest generation of their software which will be coming to all devices that are less than about 3 years old are the AI what they call Smart scribe features I really like the quick and generally accurate text recognition although I will say the best handwriting recognition is just in the book's keyboard which you can use to enter into any text box you also have a feature like shape Perfection which allows you just to hold down the pen at the end of any stroke and you get a shape or a line which conforms to a perfect shape you can also use fill as well which is just a nice to have and this is going to let you make some quite nice diagrams and drawings as well I also like the strike through erase which just means any kind of scribble is interpreted by the note taking app as a just delete that please and any sort of ring round is interpreted as a select that stuff please which is quite nice so you don't need to go into a tool on the side here or indeed even turn the pen there's not an eraser on this one but there is a quicker way to get access to just delete this stuff please and this makes it a much more capable and intuitive place to make your notes that means it's a good device for thinking and decision- making for professionals I know air2 plus was already a great place for reading and learning but I'm actually going to rate this higher for reading the color screen has made it even more usable for academic and educational texts and one it's just generally a benefit of books is that you can go to a browser and download your PDFs this [Music] way it's just a nice place for documents that have color figures for instance and you can really easily enjoy this top and bottom article mode if you're wanting to read something which is designed to be read A4 that being said for reading you will need to temper your expectations for battery life it will not last for the weeks that the Kindle scribe will last for for instance and the darker background of the screen although I actually think that the blacks are dark enough to give it enough contrast between the grayish background of the white space and that gives it enough contrast to be a very comfortable place to read there's definitely some personal preference to come into play here between whether you prefer this darker background and color ink or the lighter background of the black and white screen I am actually rating this as one of the best devices for reading and just hear me out sure that coloring screen is not perfect but I think there is a subjective Choice there the other best screen for reading is the 300 DPI screen on the Kindle scribe and uh this is 300 DPI still in the black and white but it's slightly lower contrast with the white space and the issue is for you guys as consumers is that it's not easy to find places where you can actually see these great devices in person and that's a marketing opportunity for books in my opinion I did see they do have some in a store in New York city so if you're in the area they seem to stop them in B&H photos as well so I'm not sure if they'll have them in store but they've certainly got them online perhaps you could ring and find out the other option of course is to take advantage of one of the great returns policies in Amazon for instance but I digress what is not subjective is that for many purposes having color is a helpful thing to have for instance viewing magazines or reading academic or professional documentation or of course reading online and the books PDF reader is one of the best in its class it may take you a little bit of time to get your head around all of the features that it has for example example the article mode which can let you go into this top and bottom mode and now they've introduced smart scribe where I can highlight whole passages and then I can edit how much I want to actually keep into that passage and I can highlight them with different colors and attached to that I can add a separate annotation have it recognize or of course use the audio to write this out and then all of these will be kept in my table of contents along with any scribble notes that I choose to make is just kept as notes on top of the page see my annotation with the thing I've highlighted and the text I've written and you can see every page I've written on will be here in this handwriting menu and I can just select the ones I want and I can export those I can also filter these highlights by color here as well there really powerful reading tools on this device and that's why it's such a great reader and it is in this size for books at least it is the lighter and more portable device I really loved having this on my planner it is thinner and lighter than the Alternatives it makes it a pleasure to slip in and out of the B it wakes back up in seconds and returns to wherever you were in whichever PDF you were so return back to my planner like this planning the PDF is an absolute pleasure it's a wonderful place to make your notes and I can now add in blank pages or I can link out to other web locations or other documents so my final verdict on the not a3c this is great value sure it's not cheap it's €550 or $500 but you get it with some extra tips and a case as well I think it's good value and if you're certain that you just want a large in ink reader then sure save yourself some money and go buy a Kindle scrip that will be a Kindle that you can write on and it will do for some basic note taking stuff if you're certain you just want note taking then again save the money and go buy a remarkable to but when you get either of those and you fall in love with the ink for your professional life which you probably will you'll wish you had spent a little more and you'd gotten Onyx books and really the only competition for the note FC is from books itself you do want something smaller or larger or you fancy a device with a keyboard case and a little higher performance well you can check out the full lineup of books devices on my channel get started with these videos now and there's links in the description for all of them or of course you can just get this one from the links below because this is where the value is at right now thanks so much for watching and supporting the channel

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Length: 12min 15sec (735 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 18 2023