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Wednesday, January 04, 2006
iRex iLiad, a new ebook reader
It was long ago anyone announced an ebook reader (Sony Librié was the last as far as I know), and those that came before were not successful. I bought my Rocket eBook 1999 and I still read tons of literature on it, but very few else did and do.
iLiad shows promise though. Some have speculated that it uses an E Ink type display, but I think it's actually using LCD, yet very high-contrast.
Hopefully it behaves like a hard drive to the PC (like cameras and DAPs) so that documents can easily be transferred to the player via USB.
224M Flash memory doesn't sound much, but is actually huge for plain text books, yet less so for PDFs with pictures. To compare: Rocket eBook Pro only had 16M.
The CPU power sounds overkill (400 MHz). Most of the time the device is doing nothing, so I hope it has good power-saving features. 20 hours on-time indicates that.
Both WiFI and 100M Ethernet! Nice. Doesn't say if it can run other applications like MIDlets, PDA/PIM applications etc.
All this indicates it most likely will not fall under $199, but I think it needs to be there to succeed.
See my Ebook Reader page if you feel nostalgic.
iRex : The iLiad
iLiad shows promise though. Some have speculated that it uses an E Ink type display, but I think it's actually using LCD, yet very high-contrast.
Hopefully it behaves like a hard drive to the PC (like cameras and DAPs) so that documents can easily be transferred to the player via USB.
224M Flash memory doesn't sound much, but is actually huge for plain text books, yet less so for PDFs with pictures. To compare: Rocket eBook Pro only had 16M.
The CPU power sounds overkill (400 MHz). Most of the time the device is doing nothing, so I hope it has good power-saving features. 20 hours on-time indicates that.
Both WiFI and 100M Ethernet! Nice. Doesn't say if it can run other applications like MIDlets, PDA/PIM applications etc.
All this indicates it most likely will not fall under $199, but I think it needs to be there to succeed.
See my Ebook Reader page if you feel nostalgic.
iRex : The iLiad
