Sony's latest tablet is aimed at reducing paper usage

[Shawn Knight]

Tablets have been a mainstay in consumer technology for well over half a decade yet surprisingly, they haven’t been able to unseat the traditional pen and pad for general notetaking. Sony with its new digital paper tablet, the DPT-RP 1, is hoping it can change that.

The DPT-RP 1, an updated version of the DPTS1, features a 13.3-inch “non-slip” display sporting a resolution of 1,650 x 2,200 that comes with a stylus. Under the proverbial hood is a quad-core Marvell IAP140 64-bit processor and 16GB of local flash storage although only around 11GB is usable. That said, Sony estimates you can store roughly 10,000 PDF files measuring 1MB each.

The slate utilizes 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac dual-band Wi-Fi and has both Bluetooth 4.2 and NFC. It’s both thinner and lighter than its predecessor, measuring about 224mm x 302.6mm x 5.9mm with a weight of 349 grams. With Wi-Fi and Bluetooth disabled, the tablet can last about three weeks on a single charge. That figure drops to around one week with Wi-Fi turned on, Sony notes in the device’s specifications.

Sony’s DPT-RP 1 won’t come cheap. According to The Verge, the tablet will carry a price point of about 80,000 yen (around $720) when it goes on sale in early June. That could be a tough sell considering you can now get a 9.7-inch iPad for less than half that amount but then again, Sony is targeting an entirely different demographic with its latest offering.

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[Skidmarksdeluxe]

It's a nice gadget and makes some sense but with a traditional paper notepad, you can toss it about, use it and abuse it, don't care if you lose it (depending) and most importantly, you can buy one from just about anywhere for about $719 less. Some things will never go out of fashion and the good old notepad is just one of them.

 

[Uncle Al]

Seems I remember not too many years ago this exact idea being tried and failing miserably. The monochrome doesn't bother me too much and the 1 week charge with the WiFi running is still impressive. If it does handwriting to text conversion that will be great but I'm guessing the photo is showing a .pdf and not a document the person did "on the fly".

Might just be a matter of timing but I'm going to have to say that it will probably fail again .....

 

[Reehahs]

I hope it is not the OS that is taking 5 GB of space. MS DOS use to run on much less than this and do lot more.

 

[amghwk]

Even if Sony is "targeting an entirely different demographic", it's still non-economical and excessively costly, considering a tablet with either Android or iOS can do much more and can can double up as a notepad too. And with larger storage expansions to boot, at least with Android tablets.

 

[merikafyeah]

As someone else said, this is the same device they tried years ago but it didn't take off because it was too expensive. Looks like that hasn't changed.