A year after Remarkable introduced its Paper Pro digital notebook with an 11.8-inch color E Ink screen, the company is following up with a smaller version that prioritizes portability. The new Remarkable Paper Pro Move feels like what you’d be left with if you were to snap last year’s Paper Pro in half over your knee. With a 7.3-inch screen, it’s closer in size to a thin paperback novel you can easily slip into a pocket, but since the Paper Pro Move is as tall as the Paper Pro is wide, when turned sideways it provides a similar amount of writing real estate that shouldn’t feel cramped.
The new Paper Pro Move is available to order starting today for $449, which includes the company’s Marker stylus that charges while magnetically attached to the device. The Move is also available in a $499 bundle that includes Remarkable’s upgraded Marker Plus stylus with a built-in eraser button. The larger Remarkable Paper Pro will still be available for $629, so despite being less than half the size, the new Move is far from being less than half the price.
At 7.7 inches tall and 4.24 inches wide, the Paper Pro Move is similar in size to the 7th-gen iPad Mini but narrower by about an inch. It’s slightly thicker but less than half the weight of the original Paper Pro, and while both devices include 64GB of internal storage, the Paper Pro Move has a slower 1.7GHz dual core Cortex-A55 processor and a much smaller 2,334mAh battery which, according to the company, should keep the device powered for up to two weeks.
Although companies like Amazon and Kobo continue to use E Ink’s Kaleido screen technology that generates colors using an added filter layer atop a black and white screen, the Paper Pro Move uses a 7.3-inch custom version of E Ink’s more advanced Gallery 3 panel that is also found in the Paper Pro. It’s capable of producing more vivid and accurate colors by mixing four shades of microscopic ink particles, but at the cost of noticeably slower refresh rates.
Despite its size and more advanced color screen, the Paper Pro Move isn’t a replacement for color e-readers like the Kindle Colorsoft. It lacks access to online book stores, its document support is limited to PDFs and ePub files, and its front light is much dimmer than other E Ink devices. It’s still first and foremost a note-taking device with a large selection of templates such as day planners, the ability to convert handwritten notes into text for sharing over email, and the ability to annotate documents.
Remarkable also plans to introduce new features to its devices starting with the Paper Pro Move, including the option to reposition the on-screen toolbar that provides quick access to different pen types and writing tools, and the ability to search handwritten documents. However, while features like handwriting conversion, third-party cloud storage options, and accessing notes in Remarkable’s mobile app are all included, more advanced features, including editing notes in the mobile apps, sharing to Slack, and searching handwritten documents, will only be available as part of a $2.99/month subscription to Remarkable’s Connect service after a 100-day free trial.