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Old 06-23-2006, 07:59 AM   #57
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Pernes. A small village in Portugal.
Device: Kindle Voyage
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Originally Posted by CommanderROR
First of all:

Nice vids Henrycat! Actually I should be cursing you now because you have reawakened my interest for the Iliad after I had sworn not to buy anything from that shoddy company...^^
The text-layout looks good, navigation looks good and everything is nicely designed.
Maybe you could send them an email to let them know what you think
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BUT:

The time it takes to load files and especially to flip pages is ENORMOUS! I have seen the vids of the Hanlin V8 that uses a 48Mhz processor and almost 0 RAM and it's alot faster at page-turning thatn the Iliad is althugh the actual screen-refresh is about the same. You can view the vids at youtube if you don't believe me or can't remember...
Like i have said before, this time is do to no page caching, and use of the "non-final" viewers. It seems the viewers available now really aren't optimized, and so take a lot of extra time.

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Is iRex working on these issues? How is battery life at the moment? Oh and btw...it the load takes so long because of the device reading from the CF card...will a fast card make a difference? does it load faster from onboard memory?
Yes they are working on the new viewers, including the encrypted format viewer that will make everyone real glad

Next week there should be a new update, that will give me the 10-20 hour battery life.

The loading time is mainly due to the viewer. The Berserk video was loaded from internal memory. The rest from the CF card. It really doesn't seem to make any difference.

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Thanks for all the good work you are putting in for us Henrycat!
Now if only I coul get an invite, I could start seriously fretting about which device to get. I like the Hanlins because I like the company and the devices (at least the V8) seem to be working well (and adaptation seems to be improving), but the Iliad has a strong attraction because it's very...geeky and also doens't look so much like cheap plastic...
Just ask Alexander, it seems he knows of a way to get an invite
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