I picked up one with big lots insider discount for about $48. It looks good but the firmware is pretty weak. It doesn't sync and the menus are laid out in a way that doesn't make much sense. The reader app is in one menu, the music player in another, and the video player is in the setup menu! Its pretty slow for reasons that I can't ascertain, because it plays videos just fine, so it has the horsepower. It plays music quite well but the music player is rudimentary and has no playlist option I know of and the music is listed in A-Z format regardless of how you organize it in the e-reader. It doesn't even seem to care if you put things in subfolders, it just presents your songs to you in a great big list.
The video tends to be distorted so doesn't seem to do proper aspect ratio scaling. The speaker is at the lower rear of the reader so when you put it in the protective flip cover, the speaker volume is muffled. There are brightness and contrast controls so you can adjust for a dark room or outdoors.
PDFs are SLOWWWW, even smaller ones. Sometimes it looks like its locked up when it actually is just loading the next page, which can take up to a minute or more.
The firmware upgrade from southern telecom gives no noticeable changes, it must be a very minor bug fix, but not a fix for the bugs I'm experiencing.
http://www.southerntelecom.com/slick...rmware138.html
Make sure you install the slick USB driver first!
Overall a very mixed bag. The reader looks nice without annoying branding on the front, the buttons all seem to work as expected, it comes with a free protective flip cover mounting, it has a charger and a USB cord, it supports SD cards and has a headphone jack. You can even charge it from the USB port so you don't have to whip out the charger all the time. The firmware is what really trips this reader up. It feels like its still in Beta stage.