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These devices are more of a paper replacement than the other ebook devices. |
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09-22-2008, 11:08 AM | #47 |
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I really really hope that the software will be available for the older versions soon, too. Oh please iRex - that would be soo cool!
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I was present at the presentation this afternoon.
Some answers. The iLiad 1000 looks good and feels very, very light. It's all made of plastic, no metal parts. The screen is still glass, but I witnessed a crash test, it fell from a meter high or so, and no problems afterwards. The battery has a capacity of 1.300 mAh. The processor can hibernate down to 0 MHz. The operating system is based on Linux 2.6.x and is Open Source, apart from the display routines an so. There are no viewers for office documents yet. Irex expects third parties will come up with them soon. |
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This is impressive. I assume since they were giving this fall presentation, they expected it not to break. Which says a lot about the product... they must have done something very well to protect the screen from breaking - considering how easy it is to break the screen of, let's say, the Sony Reader.
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09-22-2008, 11:24 AM | #55 |
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It seems to me that whether this is a leap or a nudge depends on what the individual person is looking for.
If you're looking for an e-book reader, it's a nudge, maybe even a step back, because it's arguably less suited for that application than the various existing devices, unless you need really big print, of course. If you're looking for a professional device, Adam's document reader, or nekokami's info pad, then, depending on how the features actually shake out, it's quite possibly a rather large bound forward. I'm looking for the latter, as I have a ebook reader that I'm quite happy with, but something for note taking in a meeting, or reading manuals or document on the go, that's something I'd really like to have and don't. For my wife, something to grade papers on (she's an English professor) would be a major boon. A lot of whether it would work for those purposes depends on exactly what formats it handles, how it handles them, and whether I can get them back onto a PC from the device in a usable format for downstream stuff (i.e. returning said papers, and putting said meeting notes into another app such as MS OneNote). Probably if I can get them back to a PC at all, with text and ink combined and intact, the rest can be handled easily enough. Very interesting indeed. |
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If they plan to keep selling iLiad's, then maybe we'll see further updates. But I wonder if the iLiad is going to be a dead platform. |
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09-22-2008, 11:30 AM | #58 |
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OK, so this sounds like a nice document viewer, for reading at home it might also be nice (a bit big for reading on the go though) and I think many comic lovers will be rather fond of the bigger screen as well.
One thing worries me thought: Battery Life (big surprise there for those who know me...). It is stated as 24 hours, the original Iliad was stated at 21 hours back when it was launched. Now, I just got a new mobile phone which runs a 528Mhz Qualcomm processor. When in Standby (but connected to network) it will last for 360-460 (depending on the band) hours on a 1350mAh battery. Now, if the rated 24 hours of the Iliad successor are the idle time, then I'm seriously worried that they did not do suspend this time either... 24 hours of continuos page-flipping would be cool though... For business users this would not be a big problem, but for somebody who does mainly leasure reading it would be a rather big letdown...especially if the booting times are as slow as on the Iliad. But we'll see, I guess somebody will be able to tell us more soon. Has anyone here asked for a review model yet? |
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