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Review Date: July 2017 – Review unit purchased from Amazon Overview The Sony DPT-RP1 is Sony’s 2nd generation 13.3-inch Digital Paper device. It was released in June 2017 in the US and Japan. It features an upgraded higher resolution and higher contrast E Ink screen, along with a faster processor, a more accurate stylus pen, […]

Sony recently created a new YouTube channel called Sony Digital Paper USA with some help videos for their new Sony DPT-RP1 Digital Paper device. The videos show things like how to setup the sync folder, how to transfer files, and how to setup the reader initially. There’s one video that shows how to print a […]

Sony’s latest PDF reader and digital notepad, the Sony DPT-RP1, was released a couple of weeks ago now, and since posting the first impressions review I’ve learned some new things about the device, so now seems like a good time for a few getting started tips. There are some notable deficiencies with the software, but […]

Yesterday I posted a video and first impressions review of the new Sony DPT-RP1, and some folks (myself included) were wondering how it compares to the Onyx Boox Max Carta. I don’t have access to the latter so this isn’t going to be a hands-on comparison, more of a general comparison outlining the main differences […]

Sony’s latest 13.3-inch Digital Paper PDF reader, the DPT-RP1, was released in the US earlier this week (and in Japan earlier this month). It’s a specialized device designed to replace paper in various business and academic fields, and it’s useful for a number of other PDF-related applications as well. The 1st gen Sony DPT-S1 was […]

Koji Seto has uploaded another in-depth video review showing the new 13.3-inch Sony DPT-RP1 PDF reader in action. Last week’s video review compared the new version with the 1st gen model and gave a general overview of the updated features. This week’s video goes more in-depth, showing how to load files onto the device and […]

One of the first in-depth reviews of the new Sony DPT-RP1 was uploaded to YouTube today. The video is in Japanese so I can’t understand a word of it and the translation feature on YouTube is so comically inaccurate that it’s no help, but the video is very long and shows a lot of the […]

Sony’s second generation 13.3-inch E Ink PDF ereader gets released in June. Up until now it’s only been shown as available in Japan, but now Sony has started accepting pre-orders for the new DPT-RP1 in the United States. Both Amazon and B&H have the new Sony listed to pre-order for $699, with the release date […]