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Originally Posted by suninmypocket
Your first impression on speed and front light? Does it support google play?
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Frontlight works perfectly fine
(exactly as shown in vendor's video) but I have it completely turned off to save battery. I'd rather do without this superfluous feature, though. I bought this device for the exclusive purpose of reading mostly PDF files during the day with normal ambient light conditions.
Speed is about what you can expect from such a CPU/RAM combination but that's fine for my purposes. It should be taken into account that the faster and better e-ink Carta refresh is a very welcome improvement over the comparatively slowish e-ink Perl (that i was used to until now from the fine Onyx Boox i86). The screen resolution and size is gorgeous and a pure delight to me!
The whole range of Google services (Play Store, voice search and TTS, ads annoyances, network spying, blablabla) is preinstalled on the system. No idea if they work as expected from a consumer's perspective, i simply turned off everything Google i could find on the system.
I plan to completely remove everything Google and install
F-Droid instead once i have come to terms with the device. I didn't go online yet (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc) and don't plan doing so for some time while checking out the core reading capabilities of the device. Did i already mention that the only thing i care for is reading capabilities?
I am silently updating the
Wiki entry for the Likebook Note while exploring the device and stumbling over things worth an entry.
@viceant: If i'd had a quad-core device for comparison, i'm sure it would run circles around both my Boox i86 and the Likebook Note combined. So why bother comparing the obvious? Speaking only from the perspective of my own humble requirements, while reading static PDF pages CPU speed certainly is completely irrelevant. Nonetheless, page turning of PDF documents works almost instantly, most probably due to the lower latency of the e-ink Carta display. Very happy with this!