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Originally Posted by wvcherrybomb
The weather here hasn't been much to brag about lately. 
Looking forward to your first impressions! |
It's snowing like a you-know-what and we're expecting 2 inches. But it's pretty so I won't offer to trade.
Okay, first impressions. The box was kind of cool, and the free cover was a nice touch. Note: It says to charge for 6 hours before use. I let it charge for as long as I could stand, which was about 3.5 hours, but left it plugged in and turned it on.
I like the screen. I like the responsiveness of the controls. I turned it on, set date, time, and such and then enabled wifi and logged on to my network. It connected quickly and immediately notified me of an update. It updated to 1.6-something. I didn't immediately remember that I needed to manually turn the wifi back on, but as soon as I did, it notified me of another update. I let it do it's thing, and now I have v 2.0.
Note - after the first update, it remembered my network key, but after the second update I had to re-enter it, so keep it handy if you don't have it memorized.
Reading - The page turn buttons are far more sensitive than I expected. Touch-sensitive rather than push. Took me a minute to adjust since all the other controls require a firm touch. Pages turn quickly. The default settings were hard on my eyes, but with the brightness controls I was able to get to a level I could read at for a while. I noticed that the pre-loaded books (or at least the few I browsed through) have more whitespace than I'm used to.
Other - I think it's cute that I can change the shelf style. Navigating through the shelf pages was a little slow, but not too awful. It goes faster if you switch to "cover and text" view instead of the covers-only shelf view. Though I don't plan to use the store much if at all, the store loads quickly and is no harder or easier to use than the Kobo site.
That's about the extent of my impressions right now. Very nice. I like it, it's functioning properly so far, and I got a heck of a deal, which always makes everything seem better. I'll probably change the store tab to a search engine with the web hack later.
One more thing - mine is the older hardware version, not the newer one, so no free gig of space for me. Fortunately I have a 4gb SDHC card I'm not using at the moment.
EDITED TO ADD: (kind of important) - The included USB cable did not work properly - my computer would not recognize the device (it installed an "unknown device" driver then said the device was not working properly) and the device did not recognize it was plugged in. I found a cable with the same size in my bag of miscellaneous cables, and at first it didn't work - I had to go into device manager, uninstall the flagged USB storage device driver and then reconnect. After that, it installed the correct driver and is working as it should.