We’ve all been there – using a notebook and pen and wishing there was a better way to do things. Enter Lenovo’s Smart Paper tablet, announced at CES 2023, which is an infinitely, and heaps more fun, way of getting your thoughts, notes, doodles and messages down.
This e-paper tablet has a 10.3″ anti-glare touch display with a very wide aspect ratio – all wrapped up in a nice metal chassis. All up, it seems to be gunning to take down the Kindle Scribe – and it’s in a pretty good position in the race.
One thing that puts it in pole position is the Smart Paper pen with 4096 levels of pressure sensitivity, 23-millisecond latency, and nine different pen settings that you can customise.
Adding to the “paper” experience, the display has a matte coating so the surface feels a lot like you’re writing on actual paper with something that feels like a regular pen. It’s a much more natural feel than a stylus on most tablets trying to do the same thing because there’s a level of physical resistance on the tip due to the matte.
There’s also a voice recorder for a no-fuss way to add memos to your notes, if you were, say, in a meeting and wanted to quickly and easily say something about what you’d just jotted down.
There’s 50GB of storage to pack in all your notebooks and doodles, and you can hit E-books.com or load DRM-free books from wherever you choose to so you’ve always got something more entertaining to read than your work notes…
Because it runs on Android, you can throw any file on there to read or annotate as well.
At the end of the day, in terms of tech, Lenovo have it all over the Kindle Scribe, but the Scribe does blend the appeal of e-ink tablets with the Kindle universe of content and brand recognition, so the ball’s in your court as to what you’re really after.
