reMarkable Paper Pro: Everything you need to know

Intro we just got our first new remarkable device in 4 years and it's not the remarkable 3 it's the remarkable paper Pro there's a ton to unpack about this new device and in this video I'm going to share everything you need to know about the newly announced remarkable paper Pro but before we get into that if you're new around here welcome my name is Brandon I'm a product designer who loves helping people improve their focus and creativity and I use devices like the remarkable to slow down write out my thoughts and create thought apps I'm currently building playlist which is a digital planner that understands that the modern human has a lot going on and life is much more than just work playlist enables you to stay on top of key things while still creating space to focus on the things that truly matter I just released it in beta a handful of weeks ago and I'd love your help in testing and shaping where it goes if that sounds interesting to you tap on the link down in the description below to join the beta all right let's get into it so what is the remarkable paper What's interesting about it? Pro and what makes it interesting well at the end of the day it's a bigger faster more premium remarkable the standout marketing feature is the fact that it now has color and a good crowd favorite is the fact that there is now an adjustable front light for the first time in a remarkable but I think the thing that's perhaps more interesting is that it's not claiming to be a different experience it is the same remarkable experience that you know and perhaps love I think they're kind of banking on that but now now with color and in a larger workspace so to give you a feel Size Comparison with Preproduction Unit for the size difference between the remarkable paper Pro and the remarkable 2 let's go to my early pre-production prototype here it is in its full 11.8 in glory the remarkable paper Pro and I need to go ahead and say that this remarkable feels way more like paper than the remarkable 2 ever did I don't know what they did differently but the feel is just crazy here is the difference in size between the remarkable 2 and the remarkable paper Pro and you'll see that that adds up pretty quickly if you have an existing remarkable I think the easiest way to think about it is think about the full dimensions of your remarkable 2 and those are pretty much the dimensions of the screen on the remarkable paper Pro Historic Color E-Ink Issues the other piece to be aware of is with the color aspect of this device there are plenty of color eink devices but this one is a little bit different every iink device that you you've seen that's in color up to this point uh is based on this technology called Koo and what it does is it uses color filtering to generate the full spectrum of color it's not very full spectrum and in my opinion color ink just really hasn't been there yet but today is a new day remarkable Canvas Color Screen has a new screen technology that they're calling canvas color think of this a bit like how Apple creates their own custom screens as well in this case it's a screen based on the gallery 3 technology from eink which has existed for quite some time but it's been reserved for use cases that were slow in nature and not as fast-paced as writing on paper remarkable has Custom Engineered this version of it to get the latency down remarkable is claiming 12 millisecond response time which is 40% faster than the remarkable 2 which is good because the remarkable was starting to feel a little sluggish by today's eink standards the potential upside with the new screen technology is true CMYK color without color filtering and I'm really excited to see how this works in the wild what's interesting is remarkable is only claiming nine colors for writing and sketching so they're not going to give you custom color blending but they are claiming full spectrum color when using a PDF or an ebook it's a little tough to know for sure based on any of the marketing materials they've done because all the colors are heavily dithered in all of those screenshots and there's a ton of film Grain on everything so I'll be really excited to see what that actually looks like in person in a handful of days all right Tech Specs let's get into the spec differences between this and the remarkable two we already covered the 11.8 in screen versus 10.3 um but there are a couple other key changes it is a little bit thicker jumping to 5.3 mm up from 4.7 mm it has a built-in front light which is a huge win for people who want to be able to read from their bed and have one device to do everything there's obviously no Kindle bookstore or Android apps on the remarkable so if you're a Kindle user you're probably still a little out of luck but if you're willing to use PDFs or ebooks this potentially could be an all-in-one device for you the other big changes are we're going from 8 GB of internal storage to 64 GB which is a huge change I never bumped into the 8 GB limit before but I especially won't at 64 um we also get a pretty good processor bump we go from 1.2 GHz dual core up to 1.8 GHz quad core and we double our memory from 1 GB to 2 gb but perhaps more importantly it's going from DDR3 RAM to ddr4 Ram which should make a big difference in throughput battery capacity jumps from 3,000 milliamp hours to 5,000 milliamp hours but I think in practice it's probably going to be a bit of a wash or perhaps actually slightly worse battery life assuming that the color screen is going to use up more battery along with that stronger processor going back to where I started this video I think at its core it's the same platform just upgraded with color speed a front light and a slightly bigger footprint to give you more real estate to work but along with that change in size is the need for new Accessories accessories something you'll immediately notice with the new remarkable is a different stylus and a different tip one that more closely resembles the apple pencil which I find really interesting they're claiming a more paperlike experience here um I'm I hope that that's true but uh we'll have to wait and see on that with that new footprint means new folio so we get a new type folio that will use up that full 11.8 in size that means now we get a fullsize shift key this time around and we also get a new refine button which I'm excited to see how that works once we actually get it in our hands we also get a bunch of new book folios in New colors we have leather and we have this new fine woven knit again following Apple's lead a little bit here but I think these look pretty good there's another shot of this here I don't think this actually has gold lettering I think this is just the coloring of the light that they used but it would be cool if it actually did have gold lettering then the other big change here is they gave a magnetic strap to ensure that you don't lose your stylus uh which the current book folio does not have but some of the other devices do like the books for example has a folio that's just like this one Cost and Value vs reMarkable 2 let's go ahead and talk about cost and whether it's worth the upgrade so I think the first thing we should get out of the way is the remarkable 2 isn't going anywhere it'll be sticking around it'll have a slightly lower price point starting at 379 bucks with the remarkable paper Pro headlining the lineup at $579 with the basic marker and $629 with the marker plus I I think for existing remarkable users who are still using their device every day that 579 is probably an easy number to jump on board with especially if you've started to feel the age of your existing remarkable too for new users who've never used a remarkable before 629 bucks is a lot of money to get started I'm curious to see the numbers on how many new purchasers start with the remarkable 2 and then upgrade to the remarkable paper Pro versus how many people just jump straight to the markable paper Pro New Features the last thing we should probably cover are the new features that this device enables which are file encryption and secure boot a longtime criticism of the remarkable 2 has been the fact that you couldn't encrypt the file system all the files were readily available if someone were to load that device up in Linux or shell into it in some way and I think for those people who are in a corporate environment where this is ultra critical I think this opens this device up to a whole new audience of people that is everything I know about the remarkable paper Pro but I'm curious what are your thoughts is it a worthwhile upgrade over the remarkable 2 for you and your workflow let me know down in the comments and while you're down there don't forget to like And subscribe and if you'd like to support the channel further you can do so over on patreon a huge thank you to all the members who make this channel possible thank you so much for watching and until next time cheers