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Hi everybody. I received my T61 yesterday and immediately played with it taking into consideration "didierm"'s excellent instructions. I noted that T61 looks identical to Icarus Illumina. So, I am informing you all, that I took the plunge and downloaded the most recent firmware update from Icarus's site (a simple 'update.zip' file) and risked bricking the device. Result: The little thing now reports that it is a 'Icarus Illumina' and seems to work fine.
I am attaching a relevant pic (the dark round spots are because of my failed attempt to place the screen protector). Attempt it at your own risk.
First impressions:
1. The overall feeling about the font used is not as good as on the Kindle Keyboard (here they are more dim). On the other hand, I presume that one can install additional fonts to improve things (haven't tried it yet).
2. There is some variation in terms of the light at the bottom, but not annoying (I do not used normally, since I have a proper external light source)
3. The touch responsiveness is occasionally not precise and the reader seems to lag for some reason. Not very frequent, but can become annoying occasionally.
4. I installed Google Play, but running it did not produce anything useful, so I removed it. I used "didierm's" instructions, plus I installed F-Droid which does work straight from it and used it to install FBReader and MuPDF.
5. The s/w still is not as good as Duokan in the Kindle for reading - especially PDFs. Also, the Dictionary is problematic and does not seem to work often. The Icarus manual states that one has to place all stardict-type dictionaries in /mnt/sdcard/Dict, but even after that the results are not as good. Furthermore, it states that the dictionary is integrated for epubs only when using FBReader (not pdfs).
6. I find it annoying having to adjust (manually) the page-text so that it appears large enough on the display. For example, I would expect a proper auto-crop available for page-width adjustment.
7. For this reason I installed Adobe Reader. The latter does have a very good PDF text re-flow function (but not dictionary integration), although Duokan's (in Kindle) is unparalleled. I also installed an old version of Duokan for Android I found (don't know Chinese), but the results are not what I want.
8. The left and right physical arrow keys ('>' '<') are an excellent idea, but do not seem to work for most of the readers, even when setting them not to be used as volume +/-, which is their android meant purpose.
I think the firmware should have complete Dictionary integration and easier settings for system font selection as well as for keyboard layout (I use 2 languages and shifting from one keyboard to the other is a bit of a pain), plus a Task Manager to switch among processes as well as to easily see and kill unnecessary running ones.
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