I feel like the specs on rm2 are a bit outdated. Personally compared to an iPad for example there is a noticeable delay. Any1 any updates about a new version coming out?
I feel like the specs on rm2 are a bit outdated. Personally compared to an iPad for example there is a noticeable delay. Any1 any updates about a new version coming out?
Repeated response to a repeated question.
The best indication of an rM3 in development is new device filings by the company to the US Federal Communications Commission. Schematics and other documentation for new devices with any wireless radios must be submitted to the FCC for approval before going to market. ReMarkable’s pattern so far has been to lodge documents with the FCC 18 to 24 months before their devices launch. There not being any new filings on their company page at the FCC website, there is nothing in pipeline that we can expect to see in the short to medium term.
Secondly, considering the screen to be the most critical part of the reMarkable platform, there have been no developments in the e-ink space that has produced a significantly clearer, more responsive or faster refreshing panel in greyscale or colour to trigger the company to want to do a hardware refresh. The company’s current standard would require the panel to be whiter, faster, and fully usable without back or side lighting.
That said, they may be watching developments in the colour e-ink space around which they might build a device. But, as noted, a colour rM would have to beat the rM2 in all performance areas. Colour e-ink isn’t there yet.
Yeah, for me to upgrade it would probably have to be everything as good as the RM2 plus colour.
I’d be happy with very basic colour that is adequate for highlighting, but not if it was at a lower resolution or was a drop in performance.
I don’t see much advantage for a relatively small company to do anything other than software improvements until then.
I’m on the fence of a Rm2 right now only because the device has been out for so long and don’t want to be burned buying so late in the product life.
I’d definitely jump in if they kept everything the same, updated the screen to the Kindle Scribe 300 dpi and added current gen color e ink at the current 150 dpi.
I also only recently started journaling and have a goal to either finish the notebook I just bought front to back or to go all of 2024 writing a jounral entry every day.
So maybe by Christmas time 2024 what I want will be out.
Consider this.
The original reMarkable is equipped with the same resolution screen, uses the same pens, and is installed with the same software as on the rM2. The only functionality difference is that the rM1 has buttons on its chin and the rM2 does not.
Given how dependent the software platform is on 1872 x 1404 resolution, a more pixel dense screen is going to mean a smaller device, or a device with a worse screen to body ratio in order to accommodate reMarkable’s first and only peripheral - the Type Folio.
If a new rM is going to be produced, given economies of scale, it is more likely to replicate the form factor of the rM2. To be worth the factory retooling effort, that’s going to have to be a way superior greyscale e-ink screen, or colour at the same resolution and size that matches or improves on the current greyscale experience. Neither is in discernable pipeline at present.
Given that there is nothing on the FCC site and the state of development of components of the device, you should get some years out of a device purchased today.
If writing were all you wanted to do, you wouldn’t hedge on the reMarkable 2. It does that, it does it extremely well, it’s still better at it than all its competitors, and the company continues to improve that experience exclusively in software, meaning the hardware has legs.
Don’t be taken in by other hardware manufacturers’ forced refresh induced by marketing.