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Originally Posted by Jumpn Jack Flash
Any sign of a SIM slot? Anybody willing to pull it apart to see if a Wifi card could be put in.
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I opened the battery cover and next to the slot for the micro-sd card is another slot for a sim card. But I don't know if it's even connected.
Some more impressions after trying out a few PDFs and epubs:
- PDF rendering is of high quality and switching between pages fast. Despite the missing zoom, documents are readable which I could only read comfortably zoomed on the Iliad.
- ePub rendering quality is good, but sometimes page switching very slow (I think it is slow when the next XHTML-file of the epup has to be fetched)
- There is no support for folders. I always categorize my books on the reader in folders and subfolders. Iliad did support this, with the DR800S I'm getting all books from all subfolders in one big list.
- No direct jump to a page number. You have to use the index (if available in the document).
- The included sleeve is a joke, not much better than this
- No holder for the stylus in the device, that means I'll have to search for the stylus often
Most negative points could be remedied by a firmware update. So far I am quite happy with the quality of the display and the readability of rendered PDFs.
As a little bonus to this posting I include three microscopic pictures of the e-ink structure (done with a cheap USB microscope for kids) for the Iliad, DR800S and the Sony PRS-300.
You can see, that in the oldest display from the Iliad, there are a lot of "stuck" pixels. These will not change their color and make the screen more "gray". The current displays are much "cleaner".