Hello everyone,
There have been some questions around the battery and some speculations weither it was replaceable or not.
The battery is buit-in and replaceable. You have to unscrew one screw and open a small compartment which contains the Li-Polymer battery cell. This cell is connected to the device through a 2 wires connector.
You just need to unplug the connector to distach the battery from the device in order to replace it.
In first step, we will not propose spare battery for sale but we will certainly do it in the future.
Concerning the formats, Bookeen's philosophy is
- to support as much formats as possible (both encrypted and unencrypted) in a native way (no conversion)
- to keep the device simple.
The Cybook will support one encrypted format and other open formats.
Concerning the navigation button, we have tried to keep a very simple and intuitive interface with an accessible control (on the front and not on the side as with the last Cybook). Our main concern is speed, our average speed is clearly above other devices and we try our best to make the interface even more reactive (Vizplex helps a lot).
Concerning images, we have implemented a very good dithering algorithm which renders an astonishing image quality.
When connected to a host machine through a standard mini-USB cable, the Cybook is seen as an external mass storage device. You just need to drag and drop your files in the device memory and you can start reading.
Mor info are to come concerning especially the format support, the release date and final price.
Best regards to all of you,
Michael Dahan
Bookeen