Dasung Paperlike 253 - 25.3" E-Ink Monitor Announced! By My Deep Guide

Hello, my name is Goya and welcome to my deep guide today we're going to talk about the announcement that Dawson actually made, I believe on December 30th. So just at the end of the year they announced their new upcoming e-ink monitor and that would be the Dawson 253. So, let's see what can we conclude from the promotional video and what can we expect? Darsung253 is going to be, or is I don't know because it hasn't come out yet, but basically that's a computer screen that is using e-ink technology, which means that it's not front-lit or backlit or anything like that, and it's low power consumption. But the cool thing about it is that it is 25.3 inches diagonal, which is huge, that's a very, very interesting prospect, because so far we've had 10.3 inch, 13.3 inch devices and pretty much most of them max out at around 13.3 inches. The exception is, of course, quirk logic's quilt, but that's a whiteboard King Kong of a thing for presentations. It's not a dedicated screen per se.

Deism have been making dedicated eating screens for a while now, and they seem to be upping their game. Quite a bit, I find it very interesting and very exciting to actually see this product because it's the first one that can be very, very usable in the real world if an e-ink screen is something that you're looking for what are the specifications of the screen? Well, first, obviously it's an e-ink screen, which means it's grayscale, so no colors on the screen at all, and you can display the picture in 16 shades of gray scale. The resolution is quite high. It's 3200 by 1800 pixels, so well above the 1440p and all of that kind of stuff, which is very, very cool to actually see that, because combined with the 25.3 inch diagonal. That means that you will get around 145 pixels per inch density.

Well, some people say like well. The tablets are denser. Yes, they are, but you are looking at them at you know kind of 10, centimeter, 20, centimeter closeness. That's certainly not something that you're going to be doing with a 25.3-inch screen so for screens that are like monitors. This kind of pixel per inch resolution is actually quite good.

There is no front light, which is one of the points of this screen. Why would you want an e-ink screen? Well because you want to save your eyes, so it's actually something that you're reading from an unlit surface that it's actually lit by your environment, light and as such, then it actually for me personally, makes perfect sense not to have that front light. The monitor is using something they call turbo tech which is used to speed up the refresh rate of the screen to allow for video playback refresh speeds. Now it's never going to be at 60hz or 144hz, or anything like that. No, we are in e-ink world, so um yeah.

You can probably from what I can see there. It's maybe something like 10 12 frames a second, but what we can't see because it's a very low resolution, video and there's no high-res close-ups. We can't really see the examples of ghosting, so I don't know how that turbo tech is affecting the video type of display. However, if it doesn't ghost that much, I believe that then this kind of technology can be perfectly useful for scrolling contact. Reading websites and documents, and all that kind of stuff, and especially for typing, because then you have fast enough refresh rates and if the ghosting is controlled nicely, then this screen actually would make a lot of sense.

Because then you would have responsive typing on an e-ink screen, that's 25.3 inches in scale, which is awesome if you are interested in video material gaming or anything like that, and you're. Considering an e-ink screen read up on e-ink technology and reconsider your priorities, because that's not what this technology is for. This is for something else, so you will be much, much better catered for uh by some other type of screen. Frankly, I find it absolutely ridiculous that most of the articles are actually saying this is not a screen that you would use for gaming. Bravo, what a freaking conclusion! That's just amazing, but anyway so perfect resolution, pretty good uh PPI for a monitor, excellent size and a refresh rate that promises to be adequate for that type of use.

We don't know about the ghosting, so hopefully some new promo material that they start releasing in the future will actually show what it's like. So that's the panel itself, but the computer screen is much more than just the panel. It has to be ergonomic enough to actually use it, and it has to have some type of peripheral connectivity. So, let's check out what can we conclude or infer from the video? What type of um ergonomics can we expect from the Dawson 253? Well. First, the screen is not flush with the frame, but that frame is not too deep, so that that indentation is not too deep, which is good because you won't get those deep shadows from the frame and all that kind of stuff.

So I do like that. The thing that I don't like is that the frame itself is actually quite wide, not thick but wide. For my taste, the design looks a little old, especially with those wide edges or the wide frame, and it would have been nice if the actual frame was of the gray or white color of the screen itself, so that it becomes a little more kind of modern that it differentiates itself from other screens, because then that would actually make a lot more sense. Now the screen itself seems to be relatively on the medium thinner side. It's definitely not super thin, but it's not a thick monster, especially for a 25.3 inch panel. So that seems to be a good thing, at least what we can see from the images.

Another thing that I'm not a big fan from the design that they actually showed are the buttons on the bottom, the control buttons, and they are quite large, which is okay, but they're like they seem very old and clunky and the thing the design decision. That actually puzzles me is that you have a grayscale uh display with bright color buttons on them, and that just feels like a design mismatch to me, I wasn't able to find information if the screen surface is glass or plastic. However, since the screen is not flush, we have that indentation. It's a fairly safe bet to assume that the screen surface is going to be plastic, which is good, because that means that it's going to be a matte surface, which is excellent, definitely something that we're looking for on an unlit device such as this one. Now the monitor comes with the stand.

For me, these stands are important, a very important consideration because especially a bigger screen like this needs to be ergonomically flexible, and I was like dreading like. Oh, no, it looks kind of fixed, yet you can't do anything because too many screens actually come with, like just a put it on the desk and that's it like just everything else around it, not so with the Dawson 253, which is excellent and towards the end of the video they finally show it that you can swivel tilt and turn the screen itself. And, yes, you can tilt by 90 degrees, which is absolutely perfect, because that's basically the use case scenario where I would use this screen and I would turn it into vertical mode and use it for coding and in that kind of uh setup. That would be absolutely perfect. So I'm very, very happy to see that and additionally, it is also it looks like it at least that it is height, adjustable an extremely important consideration as well and finally, as far as the mounting and the ergonomics of the screen goes, it has a visa standard on the back, but a proper visa standard on the back, which means that you can mount it on a wall mount or a desk arm or anything like that.

But what do I mean when I say a proper visa mount? Well it's flat, and it's unobstructed by any kind of indentations or protrusions around it or anything like that, which means that it's going to be compatible with pretty much every single visa mount that you might have or might want to use and that's actually a problem, and it can be a huge hassle if you encounter a product that is, for example, indented into the frame, I'm looking at your dell, you know what you did anyway. I couldn't find any information about whether the device has USB ports or an USB hub. Is it powered by a normal power, cable or maybe by an USB cable itself, because that would be freaking awesome, because that's one of the huge benefits of e-ink technology? They are low power consumers, and that means that if it is USB powered that would be fantastic because fewer cables, you can use it with a laptop and yeah. You can use it with other things as well. So that would be an interesting thing to actually see, but unfortunately, yet I don't have any info regarding those things doesn't 253 should come out sometime this year.

However, it's undisclosed when it could be anytime. We have absolutely no idea. Similarly, the price we don't know what it will be. However, um these are very pricey devices, because it's a niche kind of area, not many people are going to be buying it. Not many of the units are going to be produced and plus it's like a bespoke technology, almost especially in this one, when, when they're, using a 25.3 inch ink panel, considering that they're Carson's 13.3-inch screens are around 1200 dollars, which is really expensive, we can only assume that this is going to be a lot more expensive and there are some indications and some people actually suggesting that the price is going to be between the range of fifteen hundred and three thousand dollars which really hurts like properly hurts. So yeah, it's going to remain a niche product, but then again it's the first of its type and first of its class, and the firsts always are gonna.

Be a rare beast to find. Nevertheless, I will attempt to establish contact with dating and see if it's at all possible that maybe at some point I could receive a review test unit of the the song 253 so that we can check it out and that I can bring it closer to you so that you know if it's something that is right up your alley. Is that something that's worth the price tag, what the price tag might be and all that kind of stuff? I hope you liked the video I'm quite excited about this kind of thing, because it potentially could be something very interesting. However, that price is, if you like, the video please like and subscribe and ding the notification bell to get notified when the new videos on my dip guide are coming out. Also consider checking out my deep guide on patreon.

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