Review: The Supernote Manta is a fun writing summit

Few ink e ink is loyal like super users. Since NOMAD (also known as A6 x2) was released earlier this year, the fans of the private sector ink maker were demanding the embodiment of the last A5 tablet. This did not help to describe Supernote as an imminent release of most of 2024, only for history to decline until weeks before the holidays. But despite the hidden belief in many followers, Supernote presented her promise and released Manta (A5 x2) in the wilderness.

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Suprinot Manta

8.5
/ 10

accuracy

1920 x 2560

storage

32 GB

Screen size

10.7 inches

Processor

Quad -core 1.8 GHz RK3566

SUPERNOTE Manta is the next A5 x2 development. It is lighter, larger and more functional than the A5 X, while maintaining everything people love about the Supernote collection, that is, her feeling of first -class writing and custom programs such as Chauvet OS and Atelier’s drawing program.

Pros and negatives

• Written writing experience
• A very machine note and fees
• Light device in its category

• The most expensive of its competitors
• Side download applications routine work
• Some applications of the first party are the subsequent

$ 460 in Supernote

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Price, availability and specifications

Certainly not an electronic budget reader

If you want Manta, it will cost you $ 460, which is only available to buy directly from Supernote through its website. If you want to get some protection for your purchases, Supernote sells a semi -fulio cover that will run $ 60, and the cheapest first -party pen will cost you another $ 60, which causes the total cost to $ 580. If you feel flowing, Supernote sells 12 different pencils for $ 90 for pop.

Inside the shell, with its quad -core processor and 4 GB of memory, the manta is stronger than most competitors. It is also one of the first 10 -inch e -readers to charge Carta 1300 screens from E ink, which means faster update and more severe updates. However, you remember that this is a specialized device, focusing on writing, so you will not find any loudspeakers, microphones or front lights, just a USB-C port, power button, and touch sensitive strips along the left and right edges.

What is good in Manta Suprinot?

It is good to write

The first thing you notice in Manta is how wonderful it is to write on it. Most ink devices feel the first writing such as writing on frozen glass or blackboard. It is not an unpleasant experience, but it lacks some corresponding magic to write on paper. Supernote uses a special movie on his head called Feelwrite 2. Although it is not a substitute for paper, it is close to most of its competitors.

The first thing you will notice is the fine flexibility of the surface, which can distort and recover under the pressure of your writing. It looks like writing in a notebook, with dozens of layers of paper below your pen. In addition to this flexibility, the surface is clearly tight. This combination of Manta features is given a unique writing ticket for any other disk.

The soft screen also allows Supernote to withdraw another trick that most other writing tablets cannot. Since most of the writing tablets have a solid surface that covers their display screens, the nationalities on their methods should be soft to avoid scratching them. This means that, over time, these boats wear and must be replaced. Thanks to the soft offer for Supernote, NIIBS can make more difficult, giving them much longer.

It is a good feeling of use

The Manta is actually the third repetition of the Supernote A5, and instead of trying something completely different with each version, it has been improved and saved instead. You may not agree with the Supernote user interface options for its Android operating system (I think it’s very good), but there is no doubt that it is a mature and intentional product.

He – she He is The E ink e, so you have to handle a degree of cumin, but in general, the Manta is not quick to respond. I still have to get stuck waiting for the list to update or download the application. Writing response near perfection. The cumin between the stroke of the pen and the mark on the screen is almost imperceptible, as well as the view between NIB and the digital line.

The first Supernote applications (one to write down notes and one for drawing) is so much that you will need to refer to a 160 -page guide on the device to find out everything they can do. Nevertheless, thanks to the good user interface, it is easy to give up the most important things on your own and browse the guide to discover hidden gemstones as you feel comfortable with the strengths and restrictions in Manta.

What is bad in the super Manta?

$ 500 is a lot of money

Let’s address the elephant in the room: expensive Manta. At $ 460, it’s the most expensive white and white reader less than 11 inches. For more money, you can pick up a similar BOOX device with a colorful screen, faster processor, more random access memory, more storage and larger battery. It will not have a glamorous writing surface in Manta, but if these other specifications are important to you, it is not difficult to choose box on the super.

Likewise, Manta’s first -party accessories are also expensive. Pay $ 60 for half the cover and $ 90 for a great pen is a big demand for someone who has already decreased nearly $ 500 for a very specialized device. Fortunately, this bite can be reduced by the fact that you can buy a decent EMR pen for about $ 30. Unfortunately, there are no third purchased cases easily and designed for this purpose available to Manta until now, so the only protection available to your price is the first party, which is that only It protects the screen from cross damage; It does not protect it from the drops.

One of my fist is a stressful extent some reactions. For the device specially built for handwriting with photosynthesis on the letters based on devices, I should never be binding with a virtual keyboard. Manta is a joy in writing on it-it meets a lot of promises about what the digital stationery might be-but the screen is very large so that it does not accommodate writing comfortably, and writing is one hand in the same amount of complexity. We hope that there will be some mysterious trick to enable OCR writing that I have not yet found.

Supernote also needs to organize more “approved” applications. Outside the box, Manta comes with observations applications, email, evaluation and task. If you explore the settings, you can find a “App Store” to download Atelier and Kindle. Side download applications are easily enabled on the device, but actually doing this is a routine action.

Find a future educational program, but it is sufficient to say that it includes downloading the tools of developers directly from Android and using the command line on your computer or Mac while connecting your device via USB. It is a shame that Supernote did not wear the process, or at least simplify more applications. There is Ton One of the capabilities in Manta.

Should you buy it?

Yes, but only if you can use it

It will not be an exaggeration that the year 2024 was the year of the tablet to write ink. Kobo added Stylus to the 7 inches scale color reader in April. In June, Box Go 10.3, followed by the wonderful Paper Proop in September, Box Note Air4 C in October, and the updated Kindle writer in December. In other words, there are many tablets for writing to choose from and almost all of them are cheaper than Manta.

After saying all of this, none of these devices will feel prepared like the Manta. None of them raised notes and art blogging applications to Supernote level. It should be said that the wonderful approaching all these charges, but Manta is in an open ecosystem that integrates with Microsoft and Google Services. Despite the exhausting way of side applications, they are He is It is possible to download.

Manta Supernote is not a multi -purpose ink. If you want a tablet device that allows you to read books in bed, FRONTLIGHT is not the right device for you. If you want an unrestricted access to the Google Play store, buy something else again. But if you want a tablet that focuses on the writing or drawing experience while redefining digital stationery, the Manta deserves money.

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Suprinot Manta

8.5
/ 10

accuracy

1920 x 2560

storage

32 GB

Screen size

10.7 inches

Processor

Quad -core 1.8 GHz RK3566

Supernote Manta is a great machine, but it may not be your best machine. However, if the Stylus input is important for you, and you want a light device with a large screen, it may only be for you.

$ 460 in Supernote

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