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CommanderROR · 07-13-2006, 03:37 PM

The boot-up time of the device is quite long....something that is rather awkward because you have to switch it off quite often (due to the missing power saving) at the moment. Once it worls as it's supposed to you could probably just leave it on most of the time. The manual indicates something like that.

The Software looks good from a design-point of view, but it is still severely lacking in MANY aspects. Contents of my SD card often don't show when selected, but I found a workaround for this...i'll have to do further testing to see if this alawys helps solve the problem.
I've used the HTML viewer and the PDF viewer so far. They are both not good at all...
The HTML viewer is a little better in my opinion. It allows changes in font size and displays text on the whole width of the screen (a bit too much so, I think adding a small margin would be good, but you can do that in the document I guess). The trouble is, that you only get one page at the moment. That doesn't mean that there is only one page of course...it just menas that you can't select a page number. The "page breaks" are also sometimes in the middle of a line...but it looks promising.

The PDF viewer...ok...it isn't that bad. Pages are shown quite well, if they have the right format. My document had large margins left and right, but I guess that was my own mistake while formatting. You can jump to any page and in the document I used it worked quite well. It was also quite fast (especially compared to the vids we've seen). We are still a few steps away from getting 1 sec. page updates, but it's looking better.

One thing that slightly bugged me is the fact, that the little indicator light on top of the device is constantly blinking weakly....weakly but very fast. This can be a bit annoying, but you can hardly see it in daylight, and in the dark you can't see the screen, so it shouldn't be a problem. I'd still like to know why it does this...looks like an error to me.

Notes works quite well as far as I can tell...the templates are also cool...at the moment the WACOM features are not really used, but I was told that they would be implemented in a later software version. I also didn't manage to save anything and export it to PC (I'm not sure whether this works yet), but I'll try it some time and let you know.

So far for now...i'll have to wash the dishes now...^^

Any special questions you think I can answer, just post them here...i'll look in later.

07-13-2006, 03:37 PM	#58
CommanderROR eink fanatic Posts: 2,022 Karma: 4924 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Germany Device: STAReBOOK, iRex Iliad, Sony 505, Kindle 2	The boot-up time of the device is quite long....something that is rather awkward because you have to switch it off quite often (due to the missing power saving) at the moment. Once it worls as it's supposed to you could probably just leave it on most of the time. The manual indicates something like that. The Software looks good from a design-point of view, but it is still severely lacking in MANY aspects. Contents of my SD card often don't show when selected, but I found a workaround for this...i'll have to do further testing to see if this alawys helps solve the problem. I've used the HTML viewer and the PDF viewer so far. They are both not good at all... The HTML viewer is a little better in my opinion. It allows changes in font size and displays text on the whole width of the screen (a bit too much so, I think adding a small margin would be good, but you can do that in the document I guess). The trouble is, that you only get one page at the moment. That doesn't mean that there is only one page of course...it just menas that you can't select a page number. The "page breaks" are also sometimes in the middle of a line...but it looks promising. The PDF viewer...ok...it isn't that bad. Pages are shown quite well, if they have the right format. My document had large margins left and right, but I guess that was my own mistake while formatting. You can jump to any page and in the document I used it worked quite well. It was also quite fast (especially compared to the vids we've seen). We are still a few steps away from getting 1 sec. page updates, but it's looking better. One thing that slightly bugged me is the fact, that the little indicator light on top of the device is constantly blinking weakly....weakly but very fast. This can be a bit annoying, but you can hardly see it in daylight, and in the dark you can't see the screen, so it shouldn't be a problem. I'd still like to know why it does this...looks like an error to me. Notes works quite well as far as I can tell...the templates are also cool...at the moment the WACOM features are not really used, but I was told that they would be implemented in a later software version. I also didn't manage to save anything and export it to PC (I'm not sure whether this works yet), but I'll try it some time and let you know. So far for now...i'll have to wash the dishes now...^^ Any special questions you think I can answer, just post them here...i'll look in later.