Announced: the iRex Reader DR1000

[tribble]

Originally Posted by Hadrien

Aside from Office and PDF, any dedicated e-book format ? ePub, Mobipocket ?

Mobipocket is still in there.

[Adam B.]

I've compiled a list of question I'm going to ask iRex.

You can view them here: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ajfk38cck9c8_18j4vf9vfk

[The GreatGonzo]

What happened to the flipbar?

[TadW]

Other than looking prettier (by a lot), what exactly are the differences to the iRex iLiad/2nd edition? There is the bigger screen (8.1" vs. 10.2"). What else?

[igorsk]

Is storage SD only? No internal flash partition? When will SW model be available?

[zerospinboson]

Originally Posted by TadW

Other than looking prettier (by a lot), what exactly are the differences to the iRex iLiad/2nd edition? There is the bigger screen (8.1" vs. 10.2"). What else?

Resolution: 1024 x 1280 pixels, 160dpi
iliad v2: 768 x 1024

Greyscale, 16 color

CPU: Freescale i.MX31L processor (which appears to be designed to work at a speed >=532MHz)
128MB RAM
iliad v2: 400MHz, 64MB RAM

Out of box file format support: PDF, PowerPoint, HTML, .txt, Mobipocket, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, BMP
No ePub ("yet?")
iliad v2: no ppt?

Battery(life): Li-Ion, ~24h (duno battery capacity though)
Recharging time 5 hours with USB charging from powered computer
iliad v2: ~9-13hrs, cannot charge via USB (This one seems to be able to)

With Regard to the "Touchscreen" stuff:

It has "Navigation keys" that respond to being lightly touched, with optical feedback to show you that you managed to hit the key correctly. doubt it will have more than that by way of touch screen, since i don't think the Wacom and touchscreen can be combined in the same screen. (sort of like the Samsung u700 phone has)

Edit in response for/to Adam: yes, i read dutch, and am getting most of the info from there as well, along with doing some WP:Synth :P
It appears the weight difference between the Reader 1000 and 1000S is 35g.

Companion software/thing itself installs a printer driver that allows you to print to (a directory on) the Reader

New(?): Text searching in PDFs (with built-in keypad+stylus)

(From a review):the OS has been redesigned, which has "greatly improved" the responsiveness of the OS and it has a "Low power consumption mode that disables the CPU"
Also, the casing's strength has been improved, and you can drop it on a hard surface without necessarily breaking it.

[Adam B.]

This site seems to have a lot of technical information.

[bob_ninja]

Given the large screen, what sort of case is supplied?
How well will the case protect the display/device from bending, accidental drops, etc?

[bob_ninja]

Well that is interesting. If runtime is only 24 hours then WiFi is not very useful since you have to plugin often to recharge anyway.

[HarryT]

What eBook formats are supported? If MobiPocket, have they added the "missing" features such as:

- Bookmarks <---- my #1 priority!
- The ability to display the cover of a book.
- The ability to load and select different fonts.

[Mambo]

24 hours battery life, come on!

Maybe 24 hours battery life with Wacom used would be acceptable.
Otherwise you end up charging this thing every day as usual.

Where is my 60-70 hours of battery life?

[carandol]

Looks like a very nice device. Assuming the software has search capabilities and the ability to have several documents loaded at once (I don't think anyone knows that yet?) it would be great for table-top role-playing GMs. This is probably not a market they've even considered, but most RPGs are available as PDFs these days, and it beats carrying a rucksack full of rule books around.

However, I've only had my iLiad six months, there's no way I can afford one of these...

The iRex blog said the the big announcement today would be about software as well as hardware. Haven't seen any sign of the software announcement yet.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Mambo

24 hours battery life, come on!

Maybe 24 hours battery life with Wacom used would be acceptable.
Otherwise you end up charging this thing every day as usual.

Are you really going to use it 24h a day?

If you read on it for an hour a day, you'd only recharge once every 24 days.

[prlwytzkofsky]

Just ordered a DR1000S! Loved my Iliad, this should prove to be even better. Since I live in the Netherlands I hope it will be delivered quite soon

[JWLaRue]

Anyone have some insight as to whether this new device actually supports PowerPoint document in native format? I'm a bit suspicious of the "print to" language that iRex is using. Seems that if it can directly support PowerPoint that it should also support Word documents as well......

-Jeff