MobiScribe Wave - Black & White

MobiScribe Wave - Black & White

The hardware is decently made, it is a step down from the origin. The original hardware designer having got in a car accident in northern Norway is really unfortunate. The wave color hardware is decent. The non chamfered edges along the screen is incredibly bad however. The usb c port is also flimsy, the screen is too dark but that is expected with kaleido plus. The marketing materials are very deceptive about the screen. Be aware.
Those are the good, now for the bad.
The software is very very VERY buggy. It crashes constantly, and there is severe lag throughout the OS and the default applications (this is separate from the general unresponsiveness of eink) The Bluetooth is near unusable, the Wi-Fi is very unstable, the touchscreen is unresponsive, the screen refresh is poor (with the limitations of color eink in mind) and the pen input is poor. DO NOT expect to use a bluetooth keyboard with this device. There is about 5-10 seconds from a keyboard input to the device registering it, and then several more seconds before the screen refreshes with the input.

There is a huge amount of software buggyness that is interfering with taps and refreshes. As well as general instability throughout the device.
The color wave with kaleido plus doesn't seem to be getting anymore software updates, and they will only be supporting the bw and kaleido 3 mobi wave. Which is very unfortunate. 
All in all the hardware is passable 2/5
But the software is horrid 0/5

Overall the device is good, i recommend it if you know what you’re getting into.

There is a forum out there that has rooted the device and has fixed the software bugs, you need to find it in chinese if you are interested. With modifications the device is extremely responsive and very fast. The bugs with the audio, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, touchscreen, OS stability, pen input, keyboard responsiveness have all been fixed already by the community.

I am looking for a device to free me from the many pads of lined paper I use for notetaking and brainstorming on my several projects. The Mobiscribe Wave was available at a good price. I liked that it is based on Android and so in theory can run a wide range of software, such as Dropbox and Kindle Reader. The Wave will create “notebooks,” which are a series of pages on which the user can take handwritten notes using the included stylus. The writing process is usually quite similar to writing with a pen or pencil on paper with only occasional glitches, such as a lag (rare) or a sudden closing of the file (when you bump the wrong button on the toolbar). The Wave will convert handwriting, even mine, into typeface with remarkable accuracy. That can be saved as a pdf. I can see a potential value of that, which is one reason I bought the device, but the converted text comes out as typewritten words strewn across the page in some way that is superficially similar to how the handwritten words were distributed in space. There doesn’t seem to be any way to organize the typed words in the hierarchy that I was creating in writing. I tend to use bulleted lists and so forth, but they don’t seem to translate well.
The notes themselves are very much like the pencil on paper notes that I have taken for many years. The plus is that I can carry a gazillion pages with me in this one device, saving old notes in the cloud.
What I don’t like: The device is too small. I barely start with my notes and the page is full. I can start a new page, which takes just moments longer than flipping a physical page on a pad of paper, but I’m doing it too often. I don’t (yet) have the rhythm of flipping back and forth to review things. Also, the device times out fairly quickly. To wake it back up, I have to push a tiny button on the top edge, which takes just long enough for me potentially to lose my train of thought. Simply tapping the screen does not seem to work. I have no idea how to change the time out period because...
There is no users manual! This is a serious problem as I don’t even know what many of the icons represent. For example, at one point, a vertical toolbar switched from the default left side of the pad to the right—a much better place for a lefty like me. But I have no idea how to make that happen at will.
I wrote to tech support—to ask about a manual—and received a reply in a day or so. There is apparently a Facebook users group. Seriously, Facebook??? What is this 2013? The quality of advice from that group might be excellent, but I’m not going to create a Facebook account just to check it out. The user interface is not sufficiently intuitive so that a manual isn’t needed.
It seems you have to buy this directly from MobiScribe, so no next day delivery from Amazon, and no generous Amazon return policy. I tried it for a day or so with no cover—that would be a good way to lose the stylus. The cover is available as a separate order from MobiScribe. The cover looks and feels nice. It does have a sleep and wake function and it stores the stylus. I haven’t seen any third-party covers.
I am forcing myself to continue taking notes on the Wave in the hope that it will become smoother and that I will eventually realize some of he advantages of e-notes. But I feel like this device is not yet a valid replacement for paper and pencil.
Oh-by the way-you can use it as an e-reader using the Android version of the e-reader apps. But why would I do that? A standard tablet is brighter, easier to use, and faster.

Delivery tracking is only available until the 3rd party location which is located in the US (international shipping ), after that there is no where you can track your package to see the progress of the shipment, no ETA, nothing.Still waiting for the package. I will definitely reflect this issue on my social media page.

I'm verry happy with the wave. Exept the switch app icon. Wich is not available in the note app