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The Magic Note Pad Tablet Simulates E Ink Screens To Reduce

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Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. XP-Pen’s Magic Note Pad has three quick access color modes and a stylus with over 16,000 levels of pressure sensitivity. XP-Pen’s Magic Note Pad has three quick access color modes and a stylus with over 16,000 levels of pressure sensitivity. REVIEW – As the number and types of smart tablets proliferate, the choices just get better.

Apple’s iPad may not have been the first tablet, but it proved how useful and popular tablets could become. And boy, did they become popular with many to choose from in all price and feature categories. There are now many e-ink tablets available in both black/white (grayscale) and muted colors. While grayscale e-ink tech may seem like we’ve taken a step backwards from the bright and colorful Android and iOS tablets, e-ink’s gray-scale and (limited) color screen options have a huge advantage—super long battery... But what if you could have it all? What if you could have an e-ink and a full-color tablet in one?

XPPen tries to answer that question with their new Magic Note Pad. ⬇︎ Jump to summary (pros/cons) Price: $359.99 Where to buy: XPPen and Amazon The XPPen Magic Note Pad is an Android-based smart tablet that can be switched between full-color (think Galaxy or iPad), color e-ink look, or monochrome e-ink look with the push of a button. The Magic Note Pad measures 11″ (diagonal) at 10″ x 7″. It can be used in either landscape or portrait mode. It weighs just over 1lb.

Silver white is the only offered color. The Magic Note Pad LED screen is laminated (no parallax—that gap between the pen tip and on-screen cursor) and has a nano-etched display which mimics the drawing and writing feel of pencil on paper. Screen resolution is 1920 x 1200 ppi. With a 90Hz refresh rate, it’s good for everyday tasks. Screen brightness is rated at 400 nits with a 95% sRGB color accuracy and 16 million colors. This simply means digital artists will be happy with the Magic Note Pad.

For a time, it seemed there were full-featured tablets with color LED screens, like the iPad or Samsung Galaxy Tab; and there were e-readers with black and white e-ink screens, like the Kindle or... More recently, however, we've seen the launch of e-ink notebooks like the Boox Note Air 4C, which seek to marry the functionality of an Android tablet and full Google Play store access with easy-on-the-eyes... What if, instead of building an e-ink notebook that apes an LED tablet, you went the other way, and designed an LED tablet that offers the reduced eye strain of e-ink without sacrificing the... That's the idea behind the XP-Pen Magic Note Pad, a tablet that, as the name implies, has a pretty neat trick to show you. The Magic Note Pad's biggest selling point is its "X-Paper" screen (which appears to be a rebranded version of TCL's NXTPAPER display), which has 1920 x 1200 resolution, a speedy 90 Hz refresh rate,... It has an etched surface to reduce glare as well as three different color modes, controlled at the operating system level, that ostensibly take it from full color LED tablet to a black and...

There's a dedicated button on the top of the device that allows you to choose between Nature Color Mode, or the standard you'd expect from any LED screen Ruby has been a freelance writer since 2020, having written for MakeUseOf, Sustainable Harmony, and Nature in the Box, before adding XDA to her roster. Ruby has a BA in Graphic Communication and an MA in English with Creative Writing; she's worked as a graphic designer and hobby artist alongside other jobs in writing, pet-sitting, and photography. XPPen’s Magic Note Pad (MNP1095) is a lightweight delight, complete with a responsive and accurate stylus that's lighter than air to write with. With over 16K of pressure levels, and paired with the integrated XPPen Notes app, you’ll benefit from a myriad of digital mediums to draw with or on.

XPPen’s innovative 3-in-1 color modes intrigue me but don’t benefit me. With color switch technology developed in collaboration with TCL, Magic Note Pad's world-first 3-in-1 color options sound exciting. But after exploring, I found no desire to change color mode other than curiosity itself. It’s nice having options other than solely an E Ink tablet, but after using the full-color Nature Color Mode, it’s hard to revert to the other profiles with less vibrant colors. The built-in XPPen Notes app is optimized for writing notes, doodling, and creating basic digital scrapbooks. It has lots of functionality and customization for a digital note-taking app, and it’s included exclusively with the Magic Note Pad.

The paper-like screen is nice to draw on and replicates the traditional pen-on-paper surface I love. XPPen sent us the Magic Note Pad (MNP1095) for review in February 2025. It had no input on the contents of this article. The XPPen Magic Note Pad is the first writing slate from a brand that has, so far, only ever made drawing tablets and has practically nailed usability. It's the seamless blend of a notepad, ereader and regular tablet that makes it a special device. Offering a smooth handwriting experience with the X3 Pro Pencil 2 and a paper-like display, it's easily recommendable for sketching and write notes, plus everything else you'd want from a tablet.

It doesn't hurt that it's easy on the eyes too, both in terms of design and the filters that reduce blue light. Doubles as a regular multimedia tablet and ereader Reading experience doesn't match true e-ink devices Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you're buying the best. Find out more about how we test. The XPPen Magic Note Pad aims to deliver the best of both worlds – a digital writing pad that’s easy on the eyes while also functioning as a true productivity tablet running Android 14.

It claims to be the first of its kind, being a digital note pad with an X-Paper display featuring three modes: Ink Paper, Color Paper and Regular. It wasn’t until recently that tablets shed off their “media consumption device” identity and stepped into productivity and content creation. The larger screen of the iPad Pro and its accompanying Apple Pencil proved that you can do a lot more on such a device. Over the years, however, this market has somewhat stagnated again, but the rise of E Ink tablets like Bigme, BOOX, Supernote, and reMarkable are once again shaking up the industry. The only problem with the latter group of devices is that, even if they displayed colors, their displays were more muted and pixelated, better suited for reading text and nothing else. There are now a few tablets that are trying to offer the best of both worlds, delivering true colors and fast screen refresh rates for regular digital content while being friendlier on the eyes.

One of those comes from a rather unlikely source, a brand that’s better known for color-accurate pen displays and drawing tablets for artists and designers. <img decoding="async" src="https://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2025/03/xppen-magic-note-pad-tablet-aims-for-designers-note-takers-and-book-lovers/xppen-magic-note-pad-08.jpg" alt="" width="1280" height="960" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-542023" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt="" data-jpibfi-post-url="https://www.yankodesign.com/2025/03/24/xppen-magic-note-pad-tablet-aims-for-designers-note-takers-and-book-lovers/" data-jpibfi-post-title="XPPen Magic Note Pad tablet aims for designers, note takers, and book lovers" data-jpibfi-src="https://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2025/03/xppen-magic-note-pad-tablet-aims-for-designers-note-takers-and-book-lovers/xppen-magic-note-pad-08.jpg" > To be clear, the XPPen Magic Note Pad doesn’t use a Color E Ink screen or even a transflective LCD screen. It has a rather standard 1920×1200 display with a 90Hz refresh rate, 95% sRGB gamut, and support for 16.7 million colors. Its special sauce, however, is the three modes you can set for the display, depending on your activity or preference. <img decoding="async" src="https://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2025/03/xppen-magic-note-pad-tablet-aims-for-designers-note-takers-and-book-lovers/xppen-magic-note-pad-07.jpg" alt="" width="1280" height="960" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-542024" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt="" data-jpibfi-post-url="https://www.yankodesign.com/2025/03/24/xppen-magic-note-pad-tablet-aims-for-designers-note-takers-and-book-lovers/" data-jpibfi-post-title="XPPen Magic Note Pad tablet aims for designers, note takers, and book lovers" data-jpibfi-src="https://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2025/03/xppen-magic-note-pad-tablet-aims-for-designers-note-takers-and-book-lovers/xppen-magic-note-pad-07.jpg" >

512 GB, Titanium Yellow, 6.80", Dual SIM, 5G Reading and writing on regular tablets can be tiring for your eyes, which is where E Ink can help. But colors often appear washed out and page refresh isn't exactly smooth. XPPen has launched an ePaper note device with three color levels and fast refresh. The Magic Note Pad doesn't use E Ink technology, but is rather a modified 10.9-inch LCD panel in a similar vein to TCL's NXTPAPER technology. XPPen is calling its display solution 3-in1 X-Paper.

This offers a sunlight-readable Paper Mode for a monochrome user experience, a low-saturation Light Color Mode for a similar effect to using color E Ink, and a Nature Color Mode for full-fat vivid onscreen... Onscreen resolution tops out at 1,920 x 1,200 pixels, the nano-etched matte display is reported to significantly reduce reflection and glare, and backlighting is available for all modes, which automatically adjusts up to 400... Where E Ink note-makers generally suffer from relatively low refresh rates, XPPen's device promises "fluid writing and minimal latency" thanks to its 90-Hz panel. This means that video watching should be a fairly painless experience, too. The technology is also TÜV SÜD-certified for low blue light and to meet paper-like display standards, meaning it's kinder to your peepers for long-haul scribbling sessions. Buy now for $4,295 or pay $178.96 per month for 24 months

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