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cutterjohn42 · 04-10-2013, 05:52 PM

Well, I just received my lite and an original(charging ATM).

The original came in a plain white box but with everything that had been described in other posts from years ago.

The lite came w/ Software: v0.16e and Patch: v16 (I'm trying this one out right now as it did actually come in retail packaging(apparently) along with 4xAAs, USB cable, and a 4p quick start guide.) Seemed a bit sluggish at first, but now that I'm moving back and forth between menus it appears to be responding a bit quicker.

Color via newegg via ectaco will apparently be probably whatever they have. The newegg product pix were black while the one I received is grey. The "original" jetbook was black as described on the newegg page.

So next steps will be to track down firmware versions for both and then try some books. A quick look after googling up the actual ectaco lite page, I'm not finding fw so off to browse the forum and/or more indepth googling of the ectaco site... [EDIT] another quick Google seems that 16e is it for fw... [/EDIT]

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The jetbook lite page on ectaco only shows white & grey as available options, so I guess that I'm glad that they sent grey rather than white. (I generally prefer dark/black for readers as they end up being used in sunlight and light colors/shiny surfaces are annoying in direct sunlight...)
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04-10-2013, 05:52 PM	#6
cutterjohn42 Addict Posts: 274 Karma: 1029955 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: Palm IIIx, EBM-911, REB-1100(dead), PRS-505	Well, I just received my lite and an original(charging ATM). The original came in a plain white box but with everything that had been described in other posts from years ago. The lite came w/ Software: v0.16e and Patch: v16 (I'm trying this one out right now as it did actually come in retail packaging(apparently) along with 4xAAs, USB cable, and a 4p quick start guide.) Seemed a bit sluggish at first, but now that I'm moving back and forth between menus it appears to be responding a bit quicker. Color via newegg via ectaco will apparently be probably whatever they have. The newegg product pix were black while the one I received is grey. The "original" jetbook was black as described on the newegg page. So next steps will be to track down firmware versions for both and then try some books. A quick look after googling up the actual ectaco lite page, I'm not finding fw so off to browse the forum and/or more indepth googling of the ectaco site... [EDIT] another quick Google seems that 16e is it for fw... [/EDIT] [EDIT2] The jetbook lite page on ectaco only shows white & grey as available options, so I guess that I'm glad that they sent grey rather than white. (I generally prefer dark/black for readers as they end up being used in sunlight and light colors/shiny surfaces are annoying in direct sunlight...) [/EDIT2] Last edited by cutterjohn42; 04-10-2013 at 06:13 PM.