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Since this product is designed to replace paper, it makes sense to have all work files, housed on a central server. Take for instance a law firm, that is juggling like cases at once, and there is many juniors, interns and various levels of lawyers all working.
Do you want to print a PDF that you have edited or a note that you have made? Fujitsu sells a line of ScanSnap printers , that you can configure in one of the dropdown menus and configure whatever model that you have purchased. This makes it easy to manage documents such as inserting and retrieving documents.
The company also has mobile apps, which do the same thing, for iOS and Android , but they are only available in Japan. There are numerous things that I wished Fujitsu addressed in the design stage of the A4. A front-lit display would have been really nice, giving people the ability to work during the day or night.
I get why they did not do it though, this is basically designed and marketed to the Japanese market, where people typically just work during the day and leave work, at work. So having a product for the workday is what they decided to do. I also wish Fujitsu took advantage of the Bluetooth functionality to have a music or audio player or to even have a keyboard attached via the USB-C port.
The Fujitsu Quaderno A4 second generation is running an Android OS, but the exact version number is unknown, but we will find this out in a couple of weeks. There is no documentation on what version it is, but we might be offering an unlock service very soon, which will give users the ability to have Google Play preinstalled, to download free and paid apps, without losing any of the software functionality or menu system.
Fujitsu does not offer a home screen, in the traditionally sense. Instead, there is a main drop down menu that provides shortcuts to all of the features. This includes your notes, settings menu, Airscan, Schedual, File Browser, Settings and firmware update. This is also where you can control the remapping of your stylus buttons, manage your imported templates.
There is also a screen lock function, which allows you to establish a password for the device. Just make sure you remember the password, there is nothing Fujitsu can do to remotely unlock it for you.
The only format that this device can read is PDF files. Whenever you turn a page there is a full page refresh, which limits ghosting. There is basically a flash on the screen when you turn a page. When you pinch and zoom a PDF file, there is a percentage meter on the top left corner, but there is no mini map to assist in orientation, like Amazon does with the Kindle, or Kobo.
Pinching and zooming overall is super quick, there is no lag or anything else, it just happens. You can highlight specific passages, highlights can be done, on top of highlighters, to make it darker. There are 11 different levels of darkness, which you can highlight, then highlight it again and again, to make specific passages standout.
If you want to remove the highlights, simply use the eraser button on the stylus and it will remove all of them. One of the most compelling features about notes or PDF files, is the split screen view.
It is possible to write on both screens with the stylus, but if you are editing one PDF page, and draw across the screen, it will stop at the edge of the page, this is useful for keeping each screen independent of each other. There is also a split page view. This is really useful for PDF files, where you can view page 1 on one side of the screen and page 2 on the other. This is also useful for ebooks, manga or digital comics that are avsailable in PDF form. We tested a number of PDF files to see how the A4 2nd gen can handle them.
There were small ones, around 40MB in size, such as the Naruto manga. We tried a MB file, the Becket Baseball price guide, which we test all modern products on and a 1. Basically, from a user point of view, there was no distinction between a large file and small file, every one took about seconds to load and page turns occurred at about the same pace, which is quicker than the Kobo Elipsa, Onyx Boox Note Air or even the Remarkable 2.
There is a really nice schedule app that comes with the device. You can use the stylus or your fingers to click on a specific date, and then when you click on that date, it provides a breakdown of all 24 hours in a day.
You can use the stylus to handwrite specific notes or use the keyboard to write in specific tasks or appointments. When a specific day is edited, it will show a notification flag, click on it, and we will show a bubble of all of the tasks. Basically, the schedule feature is simply not a background template but a totally interactive feature, that I wish more e-notes had. You can achieve a great amount of detail by using the thinnest pen setting and zooming in to a high degree to do individual blades of grass or shading.
Note taking is phenomenal on the Quaderno A5. PDF viewing and editing is also a big draw and one of the most compelling aspects about the Quaderno is the split screen view and multi page view systems. Multi-page view will open up a PDF file in landscape mode and give you a secondary page. This makes viewing page documents easier to view because you can fit more pages at once on a single screen. Split Screen view allows you to have two different PDF files opened at the same time.
You can use the stylus or your finger to turn the pages of an individual document, without affecting the other. This might be a boon for students who have a digital textbook open on one side of the screen and note-taking app on the other. Alternatively, you could have two different e-books open at once, and independently make edits on both of them at the same time. If you are reading manga in PDF form, there is an option to change the directions that pages turn.
By default, you would turn a page by tapping on the right hand side of the screen and use the left hand side to go backward, you can reverse this. I believe the Fujitsu Quaderno A5 has a few good things going for it. It is designed and manufactured in Japan, so there is solid build quality.
Drawing on a plastic screen feels more natural than a glass based one. The stylus has some heft, which makes it easier to draw. Drawing has enough options and settings to keep you busy for years. Michael Kozlowski has been writing about audiobooks and e-readers for the past twelve years. Hardware This device features a Design 4. Features 4.
E INK experience 4. Functionality 3. Usability 4. Buy Now.
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