Been thinking about getting some sort of Android tablet to read comics on, but worried my preferred feature set ("rectangular screen" "rectangular means the edges of the displayable area are ninety degree angles. that's not a rectangle" "cheap, like tablets were five years ago back when you could still get tablets with rectangular screens" "preferably not Samsung") might reduce the pool of available devices to zero
It would also be cool to have a device I could maybe start tooling around with learning some basic drawing on, but from how people talk it sounds like attempting this on any device other than an iPad is a quick route to trying it once, going "oh, this doesn't work very well" and never touching it again
@mcc maybe not color-rich enough for you but I have to shout out Boox for making solid, well-performing e-ink tablets that are a joy for reading.
@krisbrowne42 I guess LCD, since it seems like eink is not so good for color?
@mcc Not as vibrant, certainly slower to refresh, but it’s the only thing that you can get from an Android device that you can’t with an iPad… This seems to be the “closest analog” to iPad-class hardware with e-ink: https://shop.boox.com/products/tabultracpro
That being said… Android devices just don’t have the maintenance lifetime to make that price tag click… How many ever get even one major OS update, much less continued updates over years.
@krisbrowne42 hm, for drawing that IS interesting…
have you seen this?
the OS update thing is frustrating because it's not like android OS gets better over time or anything. 10 year old Android phones would work fine except for the unpatched security holes. Upgrading devices is a hostage situation now
@mcc My daughter draws a lot on her tablet, but it is a Samsung 😐