PocketBook InkPad Eo | 10.3″ color E Ink Kaleido 3 screen | Handwriting & stylus | Easy notes sharing | Android 11 | Camera for notes on photos | Bluetooth & built-in speaker | Audiobooks | SMARTlight
$549.00
Price: $549.00
(as of Dec 30, 2024 16:21:11 UTC – Details)
Product Description
1 COLOR SCREEN
2 GREAT AUDIO EXPERIENCE
3 SMARTLIGHT
4 BATTERY-LIFE
Technical Specifications of InkPad Eo
Display Type E Ink Kaleido 3 Touchscreen Capacitive (multisensor) Processor Octa Core (2.3 GHz) RAM 4 GB G-Sensor & Cover Sensor Yes Connectivity Technology WiFi, Bluetooth & USB Type-C microSD slot Yes Speakers & Microphone Yes Camera Yes E-book Formats AZW, AZW3, DOC, DOCX, EPUB, FB2, FB2.ZIP, HTM, HTML, MOBI, PDF, PRC, RTF, TXT Image Formats JPEG, BMP, PNG, Audio & Audiobook Formats MP3, WAV Online services PocketBook Cloud (via PocketBook Reader application), Send-by-email, File transfer via Wi-Fi Applications Browser, PocketBook Reader, Music, Gallery
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Dimensions
7.52 x 8.90 x 0.28 Inches
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GLARE-FREE COLOR-DISPLAY WITH STYLUS – Enjoy the ultimate e-reading and note-taking experience with the large 10.3-inch color E-Ink touchscreen and included stylus, offering 50% better color resolution than previous versions for vibrant images and crisp text. The glare-free, eye-friendly display mimics the feel of reading and writing on paper, ensuring comfort during extended use.
CAPTURE & CREATE – With the PocketBook stylus, the device excels at handwriting and note-taking. Ideal for drawing, active learning, daily memos, and both creative and routine tasks, it enhances every interaction. Utilize the integrated camera to take notes directly on photos, enhancing your ability to sketch and annotate in color with precision and creativity.
CONNECT & SHARE NOTES EFFORTLESSLY – Easily manage notes and share files on the go via Wi-Fi and the convenient Send-by-Email feature, streamlining your workflow and connectivity.
SUPERIOR AUDIO FEATURES – Equipped with stereo speakers and Bluetooth 5.0, the InkPad Eo offers an immersive audio experience for audiobooks, music, and more, enriching your multimedia enjoyment.
ENHANCED USABILITY – The adjustable SMARTlight allows you to personalize the screen’s brightness and color tone. Powered by Android 11, this e-reader supports a wide range of third-party apps, expanding your device’s functionality beyond traditional reading.
8 reviews for PocketBook InkPad Eo | 10.3″ color E Ink Kaleido 3 screen | Handwriting & stylus | Easy notes sharing | Android 11 | Camera for notes on photos | Bluetooth & built-in speaker | Audiobooks | SMARTlight
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Anthony –
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Matthew Howard –
So close but misses the mark on almost everything
I wanted to like this ebook system, but I can’t. I wanted it as a color ebook reader. While the pen and note-taking features are nice additions, I already have those with the Scribe.I’m a huge manga and comic book reader. The Scribe was decent for manga, but terrible for color comics because it’s black and white. I was excited to hear that Kindle was finally releasing a color e-ink Kindle, but I was disappointed to find out that it was too small. Zooming in constantly on anything in color would be necessary, which defeats the purpose of having a color e-reader.I was excited to see this as a larger alternative. I was also excited that it was Android, so I could use the Kindle app for my Kindle purchases and other apps for comics and my other books. Sadly, the Kindle app looks terrible. This is both the app maker’s fault and the unit’s. The unit should, and I hope this is possible in future firmware, show color covers but auto-detect when it’s just text and use the higher b&w resolution. Sadly, 150 dpi for Kindle books just won’t cut it.Getting to the main reason I purchased this was for color comics. Many of the apps I used didn’t like the older Android 11 and crashed all the time. Even worse, the colors, while exciting to write, are e-ink and are horrible, faded, or just not right. I understand the system has to manage and convert the colors, but I know it can do better. These do not look like the advertising. They are not vibrant in any sense of the word. They are faded and never look right.To add insult to injury, I often have to zoom in to read text even on this large screen because of the low resolution and how the text is presented on the screen. It’s frustrating because we’re so close to having an e-reader that uses e-ink (which I prefer when it works) and can be a notebook, an ebook, and a color comic reader. I’m willing to pay the high price of this unit for all of these things, but not when it’s only “okay” at most things. For this price, it needs to be great, and it’s not.I’d rather use my iPad for comics and my Scribe for ebooks and manga. That’s a real bummer.To sum up, if you want this as a comic book reader, hard pass. Pale incorrect colors with terrbile text visibility that requires you to constantly zoom kills it.If you want it because it can do other things as it runs Android, think seriously about the pale colors and limited refresh rate. For me, it’s a pass.For book readers, it’s a maybe, depending on your needs. I love that you can read many formats outside of Kindle, so if you have a lot of ebooks that you don’t want to mess with importing into another device, maybe. For me, it was a pass as I have other systems that can do just as good if not better.For just note-taking, it’s another maybe. If having pale colors will be a benefit, then this might work. For me, a Scribe does great note-taking, or my iPad Pro. I didn’t test this fully as this was not why I wanted the device. I did test the pen, and it worked well, but again, I wasn’t interested in this feature.For me and for this price, this device needed to do all the things I listed above as good if not great but not ok, it was a pass and a return.
CG –
Great reader with a super bright backlight and responsive note taking feature
There are a lot of really nice things about the InkPad Eo, but it’s not a perfect device. I requested this tablet because I was interested in a large format black and white e-ink reader. I will discuss the color e-ink capabilities and some of the tablet functionality, but my primary focus will be on the device as a reader and not a tablet as I think that’s what it excels at.Pros:1) Standard black and white reading experience is good. The e-ink display is not as sharp as recent Kindle products, but it is perfectly acceptable for standard reading. Page turns are moderately fast and text refreshes quickly. However, like with older generation e-ink readers, page turns don’t always completely clear out previous text, and sometimes there is a bleed through/ghost letter effect. Not horrible, but it’s noticeable at times.2) Backlight can go from completely off to SUPER bright making the text readable in pretty much any lighting condition.3) Color temperature is adjustable from a more traditional white to a softer, more eye-friendly sepia tone. Super nice feature for reading at night.4) Form factor is excellent. The device is thin and light weight. It’s not as light as a smaller Kindle, but for a 10.3″ tablet, it’s light enough in my opinion. Having a 10.3 inch screen is a game changer if you need larger fonts but want to retain more words on each page.5) The digital pen is INCLUDED! The pen doesn’t feel as sturdy as an Apple Pencil or Wacom style pen, but it works just fine and doesn’t require batteries or charging, which is a HUGE plus in my opinion.6) Note taking is responsive and accurate using the included notepad app. I was actually shocked at how well this worked. I’ve never used note taking on an e-ink device before, so I didn’t know what to expect. However, the digital pen strokes were pretty much perfect. I didn’t have to change my writing style or pressure at all. Note taking just worked without issue. I did not test note taking in any other apps, so your mileage may vary when using this feature with other 3rd party apps.7) This device runs Android!! This opens up a world of app possibilities as the Google Play store is accessible from this tablet, and you can install apps just like you would on any other Android device. Want to read Kindle books? No problem! Just install the Kindle app and you are good to go.Cons:1) Color e-ink display is NOT great. It looks very much like a first gen attempt at color here. Color is washed out, quite grainy, and just not very good for the price of the device. If you are buying this device hoping to get fantastic, high-resolution color, I will stop you now. This is not the device for you. If you’re okay with low-res quality similar to poor color print in a newspaper, then this device will work fine. Just don’t expect any miracles.2) Battery life. So I was bit torn on this as I think for what the device can do and the size of the screen, the battery life is actually okay if you keep the backlight down low and don’t leave wifi on all the time. However, if you need high brightness, wifi, etc., battery life will drain much quicker than a Kindle or similar e-reader.3) The placement of the power button. I know this is a nitpick, but the top mounted power button is super sensitive and easily pressed accidentally. This leads to putting the device into sleep mode unintentionally, which can be annoying.4) The tablet can be slow at times, especially when accessing 3rd party apps, the Google Play store, etc. Slowness is sort of expected for simple e-reader devices, but for a device advertised as a tablet, and especially one at this price, I expected snappier performance.Overall, If you want a full featured tablet, this might not be the device for you. However, for a large format e-reader, I think this InkPad Eo does a good job and works great for my needs.
Thomas William Davie –
From ordering to receiving it was ~81 hours. Pretty quick for living in the middle of nowhere/Nova Scotia.The ereader arrived with an 88% power charge, and the first thing I did was assign it to my network. Upon rebooting it connected to the i ternet and detected a firmware upgrade. Updated without any issues.First piece of software I downloaded was Koreader from github/koreader. There is a learning curve, but Koreader is well documemted – and is extremely well documented. It can handle any software file (I use mostly epub, PDF, CBR & CBZ) and is regularly updated. Open source > free. Allows wireless transfer *and* integration with Calibre ebook management software, which os what Iâve been using since way back when I had a Sony PRS-300.No comments on the colour or Pen since all I did was verify that those features worked and then I just started reading.Integration with ODPS library files and Open library is nice to have.
Alu –
1. Pen doesn’t work where the magnets of the cover are located2. Splitscreen doesn’t work with anything other than the Notes feature, you can’t have two apps running side by side3. The Notes feature in splitscreen isn’t the same as the Notes feature itself, you can’t combine them and from splitscreen notes you can only do a dumb PDF export.4. battery drain: i unboxed it at 6pm, charged it to 100% and at 10pm it died. (at 15% backlight setting, around 3h of usage)5. native apps like the todo list only allow you to create one item, then you need to exit out, and go back into the dialog to add another, very tedious6. the calendar app doesn’t support any kind of syncing to for example a work caldavand so much more… like all the native reader apps being atrociously slow with PDFs and 3rd party apps (while fast) never work properly with handwriting, half the strokes are just missing – `Hello World` pretty much turns into `IIiIIc IIIciIcI` – comlpetely unusable… Palm rejection seems to only work in native apps, even there its not perfect, but acceptable.I’ll be returning it, I’d accept this experience if it was a 150$ tablet but not a 550$ one…
Mariluz –
Tamaño ideal para leer, peso ligero, pantalla cómoda para la vista, interfaz intuitiva con manual en castellano, buen servicio de atención al cliente del fabricante
Nicomon –
Il reader funziona bene è veloce nel cambio pagina e gli effetti di “ghosting” si possono limitare nella lettura di pagine a colori ; le immagini a colori sono discrete anche se ancora non raggiungono la saturazione e la definizione dei tablet tradizionali , quindi bene per la lettura di fumetti et similia al limite dell’accettabilità video e foto che comunque questo ebook reader è in grado di produrre/riprodurre facendolo assomigliare ad un tablet tradizionale (il S.O. è Android 11); però non bisogna commettere l’errore di confrontarlo con macchine nate per scopi diversi , il pocketbook EO è nato per leggere senza affaticare gli occhi e per essere usato come un blocco note avanzato e la penna in dotazione è un ottimo complemento. Passando a quello che mi è piaciuto di meno ovvero i menù per la gestione delle varie funzioni devo dire che non sono molto intuitivi , li ho trovati un pò dispersivi e occorrerebbe, credo, una migliore organizzazione anche se dopo qualche esperienza d’uso non sorgono difficoltà di sorta. Ultima nota la capacità della memoria di massa espandibile tramite microsd non viene dichiarata dal produttore e chiedendo all’assistenza mi è stato detto massimo 128 GB in realtà ho inserito una card di 512 GB ed è stata riconosciuta perfettamente e se come sembra il dispositivo è simile ad un altro uscito in precedenza, dovrebbe supportare fino ad 1TB.
onewheeldoin200 –
DON’T buy this unless you fully understand what e-ink is and what its limitations are (ghosting, slow screen response, etc etc). If you want to watch YouTube or play games, you’re going to have a bad time. I will edit this review if/when software updates fix some of this stuff.Note: I bought a replacement stylus from Staedtler at the same time I bought the tablet. I did notice that pen pressure was much more responsive/effective with the Staedtler vs the OEM stylus. Otherwise similar experience with a slightly softer writing feel.THE GOOD:- PocketBook is headquartered in Switzerland, and complies with EU privacy laws and Google’s GDPR and GPL requirements. It has an excellent privacy rating from the Mozilla Foundation. This is *very* unique in the e-ink tablet space, which is completely dominated by Chinese firms that don’t bother with any of this.- Device is bad at all the right things (YouTube, games, doomscrolling social media, etc). I find it much easier to choose to read a book, or jot down my thoughts, or organize my calendar, vs when I have my phone in my hand.- Hardware is acceptably fast, and SD expansion storage slot means I can copy all my documents over and then not need much internet use on it.- Screen looks great, and I do find it reduces eye strain for me. I spend all day staring at LCD screens – this helps.- Screen looks great in daylight especially – this is a big thing for me, as I need this device outdoors and LCDs are often almost impossible to read in direct sunlight.- Battery life is good, not great. I use minimal backlight most of the time, and use the device sporadically throughout the day to jot down notes, manage task list, etc. With that use cycle I can get a solid 2-3 days use without needing to charge.- Handwriting and OCR works extremely well within the native PocketBook apps *only*. Writing is a very pleasant experience.- OCR doesn’t require an internet connection – processing for this is done on the device itself.- It doesn’t get warm – very good for something you’re constantly in contact with.- Pretty slim and light, enough that you can read a magazine for an hour or so without much discomfort.- Software isn’t good yet, *but* they have issued almost one patch per month for the last few months, so they are actively improving it.- PocketBook is known to support their devices for a long time.THE BAD:- Android 11, with a Sept 2021 security patch. Ouch. This version is old enough that not all apps are compatible with it.- Handwriting in anything but native apps is pretty terrible: 1) Normal handwriting “works”, but is unusably laggy, and palm rejection in this mode doesn’t work at all. 2) There is a “global handwriting” function you can enable, which uses the native handwriting function and then transfers it into the app once you stop writing. Fabulous in theory, but for me it is dropping pen strokes constantly, whether in OneNote, marking up a PDF, or any other 3rd party app. Currently means I can’t take notes anywhere but native notes app.- Native “Reader” app is much too slow to use for marking up PDFs, which would have been a “fix” for me with the above PDF markup problems. It is fine if you want to read a comic/magazine.- Split screen mode *should* be an amazing feature (have two apps open at once, like notes and a PDF), but it doesn’t work. You can pick one 3rd party app, and the other pane can only be the *reduced-function version* of the native notes app. That’s it.- Split screen notes app has fewer features (including lack of OCR), and the notes are separated off in their own little container, with no simple way to get the information out (with the “normal” notes app, I just use OCR and paste into OneNote when needed).- “Floating ball” control can technically be disabled if you want, but it keeps coming back every 5 minutes.- Lots of other software quirks and limitations. PocketBook is clearly still developing their Android implementation.SUMMARY:Great hardware, software obviously in early development. Android 11, with associated potential security and life cycle issues. Lots of frustrating limitations that really shouldn’t exist for a $750CAD device. Ultimately I’m enjoying it and will keep it for what I need it for: focused handwritten notes, reduced eye strain, reading longform documents.