A yr after Exceptional launched its Paper Professional digital pocket book with an 11.8-inch shade E Ink display, the corporate is following up with a smaller model that prioritizes portability. The brand new Remarkable Paper Pro Move looks like what you’d be left with should you had been to snap final yr’s Paper Professional in half over your knee. With a 7.3-inch display, it’s nearer in dimension to a skinny paperback novel you’ll be able to simply slip right into a pocket, however because the Paper Professional Transfer is as tall because the Paper Professional is vast, when turned sideways it supplies the same quantity of writing actual property that shouldn’t really feel cramped.
The brand new Paper Professional Transfer is accessible to order beginning immediately for $449, which incorporates the corporate’s Marker stylus that costs whereas magnetically hooked up to the system. The Transfer can be obtainable in a $499 bundle that features Exceptional’s upgraded Marker Plus stylus with a built-in eraser button. The bigger Exceptional Paper Professional will still be available for $629, so regardless of being lower than half the dimensions, the brand new Transfer is much from being lower than half the value.
At 7.7 inches tall and 4.24 inches vast, the Paper Professional Transfer is comparable in dimension to the Seventh-gen iPad Mini however narrower by about an inch. It’s barely thicker however lower than half the burden of the unique Paper Professional, and whereas each gadgets embrace 64GB of inner storage, the Paper Professional Transfer has a slower 1.7GHz twin core Cortex-A55 processor and a a lot smaller 2,334mAh battery which, in keeping with the corporate, ought to hold the system powered for as much as two weeks.
Though corporations like Amazon and Kobo proceed to make use of E Ink’s Kaleido display know-how that generates colours utilizing an added filter layer atop a black and white display, the Paper Professional Transfer makes use of a 7.3-inch customized model of E Ink’s extra superior Gallery 3 panel that can be discovered within the Paper Professional. It’s able to producing extra vivid and correct colours by mixing 4 shades of microscopic ink particles, however at the price of noticeably slower refresh charges.
Regardless of its dimension and extra superior shade display, the Paper Professional Transfer isn’t a substitute for shade e-readers just like the Kindle Colorsoft. It lacks entry to on-line e-book shops, its doc help is proscribed to PDFs and ePub recordsdata, and its entrance mild is far dimmer than different E Ink gadgets. It’s nonetheless firstly a note-taking system with a big choice of templates reminiscent of day planners, the power to transform handwritten notes into textual content for sharing over electronic mail, and the power to annotate paperwork.
Exceptional additionally plans to introduce new options to its gadgets beginning with the Paper Professional Transfer, together with the choice to reposition the on-screen toolbar that gives fast entry to totally different pen sorts and writing instruments, and the power to look handwritten paperwork. Nevertheless, whereas options like handwriting conversion, third-party cloud storage choices, and accessing notes in Exceptional’s cell app are all included, extra superior options, together with modifying notes within the cell apps, sharing to Slack, and looking handwritten paperwork, will solely be obtainable as a part of a $2.99/month subscription to Exceptional’s Join service after a 100-day free trial.