Electronic paper (or e-paper) is a collective name for display technologies that offer paper-like performance - high display clarity and sunlight readability, and all that with very low power consumption (usually ePaper displays do not require any power while the image is not changing).
ePaper displays are found in many devices (most people will associate ePaper displays with e-readers such as Amazon's Kindle). Since 2019 or so, companies also started to produce e-notebooks, which are large tablet devices with ePaper displays, mostly used for note taking and reading reference books.
The Onyx BOOX T10C is an Android tablet based on a color 10.3" 2480x1860 4096-colors E Ink Kaleido 3 display. The BOOX T10C offers stylus input, support for BOOX's Super Refresh technology 2.0 (BSR) to reduce ghosting and enable smooth transitions, 2.4Ghz Snapdragon octa-core chipset, Wi-Fi, 4GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage.
The BOOX T10C is aimed for the Chinese market only, and will cost 3499 Yuan (around $490).
The Remarkable Paper Pro is an ePaper color tablet, that offers a 11.8" 2160 x 1620 resolution (229 PPI) color E Ink display with 12 ms response time, 64GB of storage, a quad-core CPU, 2 GB of RAM and an adjustable reading light. The tablet is 5.1 mm thick, the thinnest ever ReMarkable tablet.
The Remarkable Paper Pro will ship soon in the US starting at $580.
Buigme inkNote Color+ is the company's latest E Ink color tablet, and the first one on the market to adopt a Kaleido 3 display - 10.3" 1860 x 2480 (greyscale) / 930 x 1240 pixels (color). The latest generation CFA ePaper display offers better color saturation and a higher resolution. Other features include a MediaTek Helio P35 chipset, 6GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, a mciroSD slot and a heavily customized Android 11 OS.
Bigme will ship the inkNote Color+ in China soon.
Amazon’s Kindle Scribe is an E Ink eNote (tablet) device that can be used as an eReader and writing device. It has a 10.2" 300PPI front-lit touch E Ink display, a built-in Wacom stylus, 16/32/64 GB of storage and wi-fi connectivity.
The Kindle Scribe will ship soon, and can be pre-ordered starting at $379.99.
The Bigme inkNote Color is an Android tablet that uses a 10.3" color E Ink display (Kaleido 2). The resolution is 1872x1404 (226 PPI) in monochrome, and 936x702 (117 PPI) in color. The tablet also features 6GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, a 2.3 Gbz octa-core chipset and a 8MP back camera.
The inkNote Color will ship soon for $699.
ITOCHU's Alteric Note is an eNote device that is based on a 13.3" E Ink display. The device, which will be exclusive in Japan and sold by Conexio, is targeting the B2B market for businesses that move from a paper-intensive environment, to one that focuses on a more sustainable solution with increased efficiencies.
The Alteric Note was developed in collaboration with E Ink and Sony Semiconductor Solutions.
Hanvon's N10 is an e-Note reader offers a 10.3" touch-enabled HD E Ink display, an electromagnetic pen (included) and an Android OS.
The N10 will ship soon, and is already avaialble for pre-order in China for 1,999 Yuan (around $300).
Avalue's Digital Paper Tablet (2022 edition) is an E Ink tablet that is aimed towards the industrial and educational markets. The 2022 edition offers the latest E Ink Carta 1250 displays, and comes in two sizes: 10.3” 1404×1872 note size and a 13.3” 1650×2200 letter size.
The DPT offers touch support (Wacom), 32 GB of storage, an eMMC card slot, and an .MX 8M mini chipset.
TCL's NxtPaper 10s is a tablet device that sports TCL's NCVM reflective LC display. The display is a 10.1" 1200x1920 (224 PPI) panel and the 10s offers an Octa-core Mediatek MT8768 chipset, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage and a microSDXC slot.
TCL syas it will ship the NxtPaper 10s by April 2022. We do not know the price yet.
The Ricoh eWhiteboard 4200 is a large digital whiteboard that use a 42-inch E Ink Carta display with support for two pens. The device is waterproof, dust-proof, and highly power efficient. It weighs 5.9 Kg and is only 14.5 mm thick.
The eWhiteboard is now shipping, in Japan only.
