[beruli]

For what I paid for this device ($85), there is not much wrong with it.

It is a Linux Build based on 2.6, according to Skytex anyways.

The battery needs to be drained a couple of times to get full potential. The first time I tried it out it lasted about 2 hours. From what I can gather, the blue light at the top is also the battery indicator, plugged into a wall socket, when it’s charging the blue light blinks, but from what I can tell, it's fully charged when the light stays blue.

Other than DRM protected books, it has read everything I have thrown at it. I even have done some conversions with Calibre and all but a few have turned out to be good reading. For some reason, maybe Calibre did this, I will have to go back and look, but when reading it cuts words off at the end of the word, nothing in the middle of the word. ODD indeed.

I was also in contact with Skytex and they confirmed that they are releasing a firmware that will add protected DRM's to the Skytex, which should make this a viable ereader.

The video is what I expected, I have tried avi files of every size and quality that I could find and it has played them all. But then I tried MP4...uugh...It would not play any MP4 video that I had, so I broke out GSPOT codec information and while it plays MP4 video's, these are generic MPEG-4 video and nothing high quality will play.

Audio is quite good through headphones but the speaker on the back is less than spectacular, very bad quality here, even on the highest setting it’s very hard to make out.

Has a standard microphone which I tried and tested, seems to work as expected.

The radio is good as well, I auto scanned all the stations and on the most part come in clear.

Picture are well....pictures, the quality is up to the user taking the picture, I put on some really HQ pics, they show up nicely.

It has an expansion slot for a micro sd card up to 16Gb, whats nice about this is that it does not matter how you put the files on the card, the device itself will sort them for you. If you only want books that is all it looks for, if you only want pics, that is all it looks for.

Other than that, it’s good; I knew coming into this it did not have wifi, so it did not bother not to have it. It’s a cheap E-book reader that reads books and as soon as it gets to read DRM protected books it will be better, what else could you want?