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Old 05-21-2012, 04:32 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby View Post
As I understand it, it does have "wifi" enabled and where do they say it has a browser?

Are you unable to find the official data plate most such devices are required to have
that includes the registered name of the device?

Luck;
Ken
I bought mine from here - http://www.ectaco.com/jetBook_Color/ - and it calls it a jetBook Color. I have no idea what an official data plate is - I described all the names it appears to have on, in or around the device itself.

Yes it has wifi, and I can happily connect and disconnect from my home network. Of course, I can't DO anything with it because it doesn't have a browser or any other network aware software. Despite saying this in their advert text:

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"Wireless access to online textbooks, www.ck12.org and other resources"
And this on their blog regarding the April 1st update (which arrived around about the 5th of May, still without a browser):

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Web browser has been implemented to display Web resources related to ebook reading using open networks. This has been limited as per school requests, but can be modified in future updates
You seem remarkably pleased with a device that you don't appear to own, and scornful of others who do own one and are less than ecstatic with it. Why is that?

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