Upgraded Bundle with AiPaper, Stylus Pro and 5 Nibs, Carta 1300 AI E Ink Tablet, 10.65” 300PPI Electronic Notebook with Pen, Ultra-Thin 4.5mm, Lightweight 370g, 128GB Note-Taking Device

Very satisfied, mulitiple use cases on e-ink
After researching various e-tablet makers and products, watching at least a dozen or more YT reviews and comparisons, I was ready to finally try e-ink. Many reviewers (various brands) I saw featured comic strips, ghosting issues prominently – but wait, for me at least, at 600$ who buys this to read comic books? My use case is more hard-core professional software and cloud engineer. It has to be useful and many use cases. So their reviews I thought didn’t make sense. But I decided to keep researching, at first I thought I was leaning towards Boox – however the pricing and the add-on purchases didn’t compare to the value the Viwoods brings. For this price, I think you get a great stylus with lots of nibs, and the tablet and writing experience is fantanstic for what I do – take notes, draw software and infrastructure diagrams, draw building plans (for home improvement DYI projects). The icing on the cake was the Android and Google Play integration, I had not seen anyone going in depth about using some of my daily apps – Yahoo finance, online technical libraries, gmail, cloud storage, magazine subscriptions- in short multi-tasking when I needed to. Now I can work outside in the sun and less time behind my desk, I carry this around everywhere and keeps me focused. Battery life is very good too I find for me I can work on it regularly and the charge lasts almost a whole week. I use chatgpt fairly often to prototype stuff, so the Ai button is nice but only has 4.0 support not the latest openai 5 model, but I still use the Ai button some. The handwriting recognition is “meh” because my writing is too fast and a bit sloppy, so I use it less. I find When I want Chatgpt 5 I just go to the chrome browser and work in there as usual. Finally, the Android upgrades keep coming! It’s patched and updated more often than a Windows OS, so my verdict – top of the list recommendation for anyone who needs more than just sketching or drawing and needs cloud integration to get the most use and best value for money. I’ve learned how to use the notes and “Picking” whch took a minute to figure out, but is easy and not too complicated. I wanted somehing that was not overly complicated, and could sync to my google and integrate to cloud. I’m always bouncing between laptop and this, I like the Google play support i can upload code to my “git” via the android git client and continue to work on it on my laptop seamlessly. The only “meh” I would have is minor, I admint, but the name is just.. a little strange -“viwoods”, really? How do you even pronouce it, or come up with such a name? I dunno, but the I do admit I was suspicious at first just because of the name is just … weird. But now, I know the product and it is really a very useful e-ink tablet at fair price.

Great tablet but needs frontlight
The tablet is really good with a few smaller issues with software which they are improving. Needs a front light. I understand the writing and reading experience is better with less layers bringing screen closer but for me lack of front light is a non starter. Did not fully know this until I did not have a light. My Kindle has a glow light so miss that.The writing and reading were very good but would give up some of that for the light. Also getting docs onto and off a clunky system compared to competition from Boox, remarkable and others are easier. I will say they have been good with updates to fix and enhance the device. They are regular with those. ‘The pen is good with a really nice eraser experience. The carta 1300 screen is very good as well when lighting is good.

If you ever wanted a Remarkable that used Android and freely exchangeable EMR styli this is exactly it. The AI integrations are perfectly fine, I find the audio recording functionality incredibly useful. You can create custom templates in something like Claude and upload them reasonably easily. Highly recommend if you plan on using this is a professional setting.

A quality made item with loads of functionality. But, the basics don’t work! It does everything the advertisement says- just not well or usable.The good:1. Paper feel is pretty good. Not as good as Remarkable but close.2. Has access to apps like Teams, Notes.3. Can link pages to calendar.The bad.:1. Ai generated content cannot be pasted. It shows that it’s copied but pasting does not work. It will paste the last thing you copied from other pages.2. Handwriting to text produces so many mistakes it’s not worth doing. Sure my handwriting is not great but even when purposely neat the result is just poor.3. Interactive handwriting to text just doesn’t produce anything useful.4. There’s also a quirky function of ChatGPT. If you ask for text conversion you get nonsense. If you ask for evaluation you get an almost perfect outcome. But it’s evaluated and therefore changed so not quite what you wrote so there’s something amiss in how Ai is interpreted the source.Summary.Good if you want it just to capture notes and calendar entries. But sharing is only done via pdf or png image so it can’t edited. This is why the conversion to text and Ai paste of text is so important- so it can be edited elsewhere.I think in later versions all this will be fixed. Currently v3.7 has the above limitations. I sent mine back and will try again when they get to v4.7.