It looks like E Ink’s Gallery 3 screens are finally ready for prime time. Remarkable has just announced the release of the Remarkable Paper Pro, and it features an 11.8″ E Ink Gallery 3 screen with actual colored micropixels instead of relying on a color filter layer like E Ink’s Kaleido 3 screens, which all other color ereaders and eNotes currently use. The resolution of the new screen is listed at 2160 x 1620, which equates to 229 ppi.
They also added a frontlight to the Remarkable Paper Pro, unlike the last two Remarkable tablets that had no light.
It’s supposed to be faster than the Remarkable 2, with 15% less screen glare, and the writing distance is closer, with less writing latency at 12 milliseconds instead of 21 milliseconds.
It has a 1.8 GHz quad-core CPU (Cortex-A53), with 2GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. It has a USB-C port, it supports dual-band WiFi, and the battery size is 5,030 mAh. The software is Linux-based. It’s a bit on the heavy side at 525 grams, and the dimensions are 274.1 x 196.6 x 5.1 mm.
Remarkable’s devices are mostly for note-taking. They do support PDF and EPUB (DRM-free) files, but their reading app is about as bare bones as it gets—I don’t recommend them as reading devices at all, but they are very good for taking notes.
The Remarkable Paper Pro starts at $579 with the basic stylus and no cover, and prices go up from there.
There are a bunch of videos showing the new Remarkable Paper Pro on the Remarkable YouTube Channel, but none really seem to focus on the new color screen much, and the pictures on their website don’t show it very well either. It’s like the new color screen is a minor detail to them. It’ll be interesting to see some ereaders coming out with these new Gallery 3 screens. E Ink still hasn’t updated their website and they haven’t issued any press releases about their new and improved Gallery screens, so hopefully we’ll get some more details soon.
I was wondering if Kindle would be the first to get an exclusive on a faster refreshing Gallery screen. Now that probability of new gallery readers soon, I will wait for a large format reader. Kobo may jump the gun and put out a Kaleido large format. Hopefully they wait a couple months, if needed, and go Gallery….no color film overlay.
No doubt that Onyx will be working on 86, or some other crazy number, of different devices.
The fact that Remarkable got first dibs on these new screens makes be question how good they really are because the past two Remarkable tablets were pretty terrible, in my opinion, at least from an ereading standpoint. Their reading software is so bad it’s laughable, and their whole approach to loading files and syncing and exporting is the worst. I don’t know how they ever got so popular. I’m interested in seeing what these new screens look like in person, but there’s no way I’d ever spend $600 on a Remarkable tablet that’s only good for one thing: taking notes.
One of the ereader companies should’ve been the first to get these new screens if they really are that great. Onyx has embraced color E Ink from the beginning and they’ve released over a dozen different devices with Kaleido screens over the past few years. So how does Remarkable, who has only released two E Ink device total before this, none color, get first crack at it? Something doesn’t add up. There must be some major drawback to these new screens that has yet to come to light.
From what I remember with the Bigme Galy, which jumped on Gallery 3 screens early then disappeared shortly after, the issues were poor battery life, slow refresh rates and green or yellow did not display accurately.
Course these could all be because of Bigme rushing to be first in a race with no competitors.
If that is an accurate representation of how the screen looks (in the video) – this looks exceptional! The first time I have been excited about a Remarkable. I have a Libra Colour, and a Kindle Scribe – would love to see them both use this technology one day. Glad the slow refresh issues Gallery 3 has been known for have been fixed. Very exciting times for e-ink.
This screen would be a great selling point for new Oasis… It would again feel premium compared to other Kindles… I wonder if that’s what they’re gonna do or if it’s gonna be something completely new. I don’t expect them to make Scribe 2 (at least not at that size).
A 7″ Kindle Scribe color with that technology?
Kobo will be dead.
I think they’d go for 7.8″ or 8″… To make it bigger than Paperwhite again. But I’d love 7″ too, so that I can take it everywhere with me.
In July E Ink posted the press release with the title “E Ink and Himax Unveil Advanced Color ePaper Timing Controller ASIC T2000”, so I guess it’s used to speed up rendering on the Gallery 3 screens as well.
That’s interesting. Voja said on his MDG video that rM told him about their special method for refreshing, but he’s not allowed to say exactly what it is.
Sounds like rM developed it in-house for years. And sounds like an alternative that any company can use has also been developed and is available now.
It took a few years for the competition to match or better rM2’s screen and pen features. It would be interesting if competitors had Paper Pro rivals out within six months to a year.
The partial refresh, which can be seen in Vojas video (https://youtu.be/ZkEg8WLeW4Q) is an interesting concept. Yet, it is still an annoying refresh that a device with a matte (LC-)display like TCL NXTPAPERs, Lenovos P12 or Huaweis MatePad 11,5 S doesn’t have.
Besides 64 GB storage is ridiculous small. With a SD-card slot that wouldn’t be a problem, but, alas, Remarkable don’t want their users to expand the storage to their needs, they want to sell place on their computers (aka cloud).
Not so sure about the 2 GB RAM either. It may be enough for their Linux based OS but then, more RAM is almost always better.
Plus I’m not a fan of a rather closed ecosystem (e.g. I can’t install apps I like to use for reading, annotations etc.) and a subscription model for certain things to do with a device. Besides the Paper Pro is just too expensive for what it offers. Moreover 229 ppi for an e-ink device in 2024 is really preposterous.
The only thing that would suite me is the form factor of the device. Bigger is always better for reading PDFs.
Would rather see 300 dpi.
It’s not a tablet, but a ereader. I find it useful if you want to read text with some graphics or images to understand what it’s said, as in textbooks.
Correct me if I’m wrong but at no point is the guy in this video is actually writing in real time. The part when he’s writing on the right side of the video and the text magically appears on the left side doesn’t count. So I won’t believe that the Gallery 3’s latency is now good enough for writing until I see it on MyDeepGuide.
You said the reader app isn’t great and I believe you, but definitely the zooming is stunning if you compare it to Pocketbook’s
https://youtu.be/LMeVWrvAijA?si=NwbpTSNectiNmH92