


While the sound quality ain’t great – it’s quite tinny – it’s a lot louder than what the PocketBook Era can manage and, unlike the Era, the Note Air 2 Plus can actually keep playing tunes on the speaker or via Bluetooth while you’re doing other things on the device.

One of them is a music player and the device has its own speaker. A true multitaskerĮven without access to the Google Play Store, there are a bunch of apps available by default on the Note Air 2 Plus. Unlike the Kobo Elipsa’s sleepcover, there’s no notch on any of the cases for the Note Air 2 devices to safely stow the stylus when not in use. As it is now, the stylus does stick to the slim side of the tablet, but gravity is just too strong for it and it gets jostled off inside a bag. I just wish the magnet on either the stylus or the device body was a little stronger so they’d stay together in transit. I’ve taken to scribbling my weekly to-do list for work on it, making notes for any product I might be testing, listing article ideas and just some general doodling. It’s been smooth these last few months and not once did the stylus feel scratchy or strange to use in any way. It’s real time and feels just like a pen on paper. This is the best natural-feel writing experience I’ve had on any E Ink tablet. What I truly love about the tablet though is its writing experience. When asked why there’s no pre-loaded dictionary, an Onyx spokesperson told me that it was an omission that the team is trying to rectify in upcoming devices. While there’s no default dictionary on the device (and adding one has not worked as per Onyx’s instructions), the dictionaries in the apps work just fine. When it comes to using it for the simple task of reading ebooks, I’ve got access to both my Kobo and Kindle books via their respective Android apps, plus other titles I’ve purchased from elsewhere have been sideloaded and neatly arranged in the Library.
