[ProDigit]

Well, it finally arrived, 2 days after the mailman delivered it in a wrong address!

First of all, it's so tiny!
The screen text is pretty refined too, although I think the resolution of my Sony PRS-505 is a bit better, though not by much!
Text can be displayed at a pixelsize so small you can barely read it (say font 4 or 5pt).
The contrast is way less than an e-ink, and the images are washed out, and the device is rather difficult to read, especially when reading in a reasonable dark environment where the prs-505 would easily do.

The jetbook is for dailight activities.

It does not have an internal speaker to playback sound, but has a headphones included.

The zoom level for pictures is pretty limited (upto 2x zoom) which may be too small for hi-res pictures). Even their demo picture, a flyer of the jetbook with it's specs, the letters are too small to comfortably read at 200% zoom.

The usermanual tells me the device is not compatible with SDHC cards, but it read my Apacer class 4, 4GB SDHC card just fine! It was formatted in FAT32.

In the settings, most settings are optimized in a way I would optimize the reader. There are 2 font sizes in the reader; arial and verdana. Arial being the standard and best looking of the 2.
The screen has a considerably faster refresh rate than an e-ink screen. Animated graphics playback much better and faster.

Stock internal memory is only a 90MB, with 36MB free.
I think I will delete most books, and store them on the SD card.

Mine came standard with firmware software version 0.35m, and patch 18. Any updates from there?

The nice thing is that this device has an internal file manager.

When plugged in the power (AC), the reader's led operates in reverse order. When it's doing nothing, the LED is on. When it's loading a book or doing some disk reads, the led blinks off. When unplugging the opposite happens (which is what you'd expect from devices like this.

On the left side there's a slider bar, to flip pages. I find the bar quite unhandy. My fingers slide over it, and do not have sufficient grip to move it. The spring system is a bit too tight.
I prefer a flip bar over buttons, and buttons over a slide bar. It would be the only negative practical design flaw of the device, next to the hatch that covers the SD and power plug. Many readers have no hatch over their power plug, and that's how I would want it, but it's fairly easy to remove the piece of plastic from the cardslot and usb connection!


I have the black version. Glad, because I don't like red.
Aside from the headphones and AC adapter, the package also included a user manual (also found on the jetbook in digital format), usb plug, and neoprene pouch with hardened cover (for the screen).

The books included, some of them are full books, from the