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The Daylight tablet is the closest to Playdate display among the tablets listed in the article.

The device does have white LEDs too. So you can adjust the color temperature. It is just that most of the marketing materials are done to highlight the amber display feature.

The brownout prevention hack you mentioned in the pcb design page is really neat!

Any Bluetooth keyboard will work.

Source: I was the chief hw designer for this project.

The tablet does have page turn buttons! There is a side button and a top button. The side button in particular is nice as a page turn button.

Source: I was the chief hw engineer for this product.

Yes - the backlight temperature allows you to adjust it from a pure (albeit on the warmer side) white to pure amber.

Source: I was the chief hw engineer for this device.

The colors do not invert when the backlight is on, which is great because you can turn on only a slight amount of backlight if you need it, and have it blend to the ambient lighting.

It supports 256 levels of grayscale.

You can use an app called Duet Display on it. It works quite well (can’t remember the exact ms latency now)

Source: I was the chief hardware engineer for this device.

The problem with eink tablets is that they must use front light, and not backlight due to how eink works. This means there is an extra layer in front of the layer where the pixels are, which causes parallax effects which makes writing feel fake. This is (likely) why remarkable deleted the frontlight from their product.

Whereas with the daylight tablet, we have a trans reflective display and a backlight. Since the backlight layer is behind the layer where the pixels are, the parallax does not suffer.

I find the experience of writing with a Wacom EMR pen on mine very pleasing :)

Source: I was the chief hardware engineer for this project.

Thanks for your comment! I grew up using a Palm III that was already super old when I had it in high school. But years later, my fond memories of the sense of focus I had using it became a major inspiration for deciding to join Anjan’s team for this project :)

Source: I was the chief hardware engineer for this device.

Anjan can comment further to see if the team these days has any further optimizations in store, but with my personal Daylight tablet anecdotally, these days I am charging it every other week, and using it for 1-2 hours a day to browse the web and read PDFs. I usually have a low backlight setting on it.

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