Color jetBook Color Hand-On Review

[ProDigit]

Originally Posted by PF4Mobile

I use the device for 1h/day and I recharge it after around 2 weeks.
I read epubs and that is all I do with it. Nothing else. no internet no games ...

You see, that means you actually only have about a day on battery life (or a good 12 hours). That's a lot different from e-ink devices I know, where you can read 8 hours a day, for several days (sometimes even weeks).

[PF4Mobile]

Originally Posted by ProDigit

You see, that means you actually only have about a day on battery life (or a good 12 hours). That's a lot different from e-ink devices I know, where you can read 8 hours a day, for several days (sometimes even weeks).

I have a kobo touch ..that requires almost the same. It's my wife's not sure though

[Kris777]

Originally Posted by Dulin's Books

Hanvon uses windows ce at the core to run the device. I doubt Ectaco dumped the core OS to develop from. Besides it shoudl say something about the OS in the "about" screen. anyone checked?

I found Win CE 6.0 sticker on the backside of jetBook Color:

[Ken Maltby]

There are those who have been building products that have used WinCE 6.0 since 2006.
It is old, old like Win XP. There is a new version with a lot of great features, mostly
multimedia features, but including support for dual core ARM and such, that came out
in March 2011. Check out WiKi for the WinCE version history and features.

There are still a lot of devices that WinCE is just right for.

Luck;
Ken

[Beryll Snyder]

Originally Posted by ProDigit

You see, that means you actually only have about a day on battery life (or a good 12 hours). That's a lot different from e-ink devices I know, where you can read 8 hours a day, for several days (sometimes even weeks).

The Sony tech-spec say you can read one month on the device ...

[IbnSaeed]

Does this have Arabic Language support ?

[ProDigit]

Originally Posted by Beryll Snyder

The Sony tech-spec say you can read one month on the device ...

Sure, reading less than an hour a day.
My jetbook mini actually does 2 years on a battery charge, in standby that is!

Point being, I take specs with a grain of salt.
Best way to know the real specs is from hearing it from users who use it regularly, not from companies who try to bloat specs to get higher sales numbers.

[andyh2000]

Originally Posted by IbnSaeed

Does this have Arabic Language support ?

Point us at an Arabic language PDF and someone might be able to tell you. Or did you mean the interface language?

Andrew

[Kris777]

Originally Posted by IbnSaeed

Does this have Arabic Language support ?

As I remember Lubib posted the picture of Japanese ebook so I think it will be no problem with Arabic too.

[Beryll Snyder]

Originally Posted by ProDigit

Sure, reading less than an hour a day.
My jetbook mini actually does 2 years on a battery charge, in standby that is!

Point being, I take specs with a grain of salt.
Best way to know the real specs is from hearing it from users who use it regularly, not from companies who try to bloat specs to get higher sales numbers.

Right, but somehow I have the feeling you are biased - and statements made by others donn't seem to impress you either.

[Ken Maltby]

Originally Posted by IbnSaeed

Does this have Arabic Language support ?

I would expect that a device with as much language support as this one,
made for Russian schools would certainly support the languages of the old
Soviet client states.

Luck;
Ken

[Komandor]

I've got my JetBook Color couple days ago, not happy at all. It was charged overnight, but by the end of next day it was 50% discharged. All I was doing was going through menus during maybe an hour or so. Moreover, scroll down button is not working. To scroll down the list I have to page forward to jump to the bottom and then scroll up.

[samehmi]

Originally Posted by PF4Mobile

Have you looked for an alternative to the LCD display of your computer? What else did you find?

boohbear_nc and PF4Mobile, have you looked for an alternative to the LCD display of your computer?

[LuBiB]

Originally Posted by PF4Mobile

Tha is not far...
How long does it take from placing and order to receiving the device?

Should be pretty quick as poohbear stated.

[PF4Mobile]

Originally Posted by samehmi

boohbear_nc and PF4Mobile, have you looked for an alternative to the LCD display of your computer?

The only think that I know of is this

http://www.pixelqi.com/products

I am reluctant to try it ...I will see how M92 looks and decide after that
It could be a good replacement for the color e-Ink...
The problem is that the size is still small for a monitor