No, but I have been following the project for awhile. Frankly the whole thing has felt very underwhelming, what with the lack of being able to go back and edit )not even a backspace button.) The use of their own cloud storage thing (sure it’s tied to evernote but it still requires their own servers.)
Frankly the Alphasmart would be better due to being easier to carry around in a bag, having less of a ‘LOOK AT hoW tRENDY AND COOL AND RETRO I AM!’
That and the alphasmart had 700+ hours on a set of three AA batteries. It did the ‘one stroke text dump’ thing too. Sadly it couldn’t compete and it was, when netbooks started becoming a thing, $225, then down to $175, then finally $120, and then they got outpriced by tablets even though they had the advantage of an education market that could buy them in bulk rather than hoping and praying hipster douchbags will want to be SEEN writing with their giant clunky thing.
As you can see, I am not a fan. Then again I just want my alphasmart neo back. It wasn’t perfect; as it could have used an sd card slot and a better screen, but I like it far better than this thing.
To anyone that gets one. Please, enjoy it. Don’t let my salt shaker’s worth of annoyance turn you off from the device you want. Also if you can, hack it. See what this ‘open’ device will really let you do. Tell me if the e-ink screen is as fragile as the one that was on my nook (which didn’t survive a six inch drop.)
Prove me wrong and show me that it is an awesome device.
Same reasons I haven’t I expect. It’s impossible to gt a raspberry zero, and finding a satisfactory screen that both meets power and size requirements is difficult without it costing a small fortune. Seriously, how is it we can get near IPS full color HD screens for cheaper than a decent sized black and white lcd screen?
Edit: For those wondering, or that have the electrical knowledge. I listed on this BBS the sort of device I want for these kind of situations.
I do not have a little salt over this thing getting the hype it did right as rennisance learning stopped selling the alphasmart. I do not have a shaker, canister, or even trailer of salt over it. I have entire mines worth of salt over the verbose press and fawning this hipster centric piece of junk has gotten right as Alphasmart died. Where was the press then? Where was all the praise and fawning when that device needed it? Where were people publicly and loudly going on at how it is the best counter ever to useless iPads in every classroom?
When the Alphasmart needed that press it was just the niche that were flustered and frustrated at how hard it was to get anyone to care, and then this stupid thing comes along and is suddenly everyone’s little darling.
