top joy is a company out of china and is one of the few manufacturers using the new des
slurry technology the one and only direct competitor to e-ink
this is a 7.8 inch with a full color display
and note-taking layer they have a 6-inch as well that we hope to cover in a future video
this device has been all over the internet with
ads displaying on social media platforms and various websites
but how does this stack up to the competition and what is it really about well let's find out
it has an 1872 by 1404 resolution with 300 ppi black and white and 150 ppi
on color it has a quad core processor along with wi-fi bluetooth and a built-in
single speaker with no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack
it also has noise cancelling dual mics and a 3200 milliamp battery good for about 70 days on standby
looking over the home screen you have everything you need up top here from bluetooth wi-fi location
and all of your services you can also use this button to invert the colors and create a dark mode
anywhere you want now you do have some things on the side as well and all of your apps
in the middle but of course what is in the middle will all change every time you go to
a different section so when you go to reader all of your comic books and your manga and your pdfs
and ebooks which this runs a multiple amount of formats will be there you have your notes
here and your settings down below settings is where you can change a lot of your preferences
sound storage etc most importantly the preferences itself because this is where you're going to find
refresh mode and refresh mode is where you're going to find those four modes display graphic web
and video and the lower down the mode down towards video the faster the device gets the wi-fi has the
ability to connect to not only 2.4 g but to 5g as well because this is naturally running a color
layer physically regardless of what you set your color status to that it's never going to be quite
as black and white as a non-color device so the background is always going to be a little bit
of this gray but the text is a very good contrast so overall your experience with reading books and
images within the books is quite nice of course this being a note taker you can take notes within
a regular epub book as well des is a very vibrant screen when it comes to color however it's not the
most consistent when it comes to staining there is a little bit of staining on des and you can never
really 100 percent get rid of it this is not the blame of top joy or anyone else that employs this
technology it's just the inherent problem with the technology currently of course this is the stock
experience but this is running android and as you saw there are various apps on here so you can
download and side load in apps anytime in the future and you can load them in to be able to
craft a better experience for yourself different palettes adobe whatever the case may be the
note-taking experience is quite solid and yes you can rest your hand on the screen you can rest five
points on the screen and it still writes perfectly fine you have a bunch of things up top different
pen styles a bunch of different colors so far 30 individual colors are pre-bundled on this unit you
also have the back of the pen for erasing or you can choose the eraser itself in which case you can
scrub away with the tip you can clear the entire page like so you even have a drop down to be
able to do recordings hello i am recording on the top joy with the dual microphones
hello i am recording on the top joy with dual microphones you also have by default
11 page backgrounds that you can choose any page you want and you can actually use
pdfs and images as the background themselves to your own notes so you can get full customization
tapping this gives you a grid view of all the notes and pages in your notebook and tapping
the share icon actually allows you to share with all of the pre-loaded apps on the unit
so far for example there's only facebook and kindle on here so those are the ways you can share
but if you put on outlook gmail or any other applications you can share your notes instantly
using those apps the pen itself is a nice shape it has a triangular design but it feels good in the
hand it's not too heavy and it is responsive especially while using the color palette
unfortunately there is no warm lighting but you do have the ability to control the glow
light it is a very good glow light with a very good light distribution because this is a flush
screen and bezel you don't have any spillage or anything like that around any of the sides while
the glow light is on you can invert the colors and you can use the glow light via dark mode
as well this allows you to still be able to see the screen but is way easier on the eyes
the speaker is not the loudest speaker we've ever
heard in terms of decibels but it definitely is a clear experience
the top joy butterfly gives you pretty much everything you'd want in a color e note
it's fast vibrant capable and it's fully loaded with dual microphones
wi-fi bluetooth a note-taking layer on-board audio and a glow light
it's priced at 259 dollars usd which is far below the other color note-taking devices
currently available as with many manufacturers its beginning stages are always a little bit rocky
but all of that will change in time especially with over-the-air updates
with two devices in their repertoire we expect big things from top joy in the months to come
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