On Thursday, the Interfax introduced a new e-reader model, the ABC n618. This is where the official part ends, and the unofficial one begins with a photo review of the device. Let's start with the box. The box turned out beautiful, as our designer said. But the main thing is not the box, but what is inside.
Here's a look. Open up. Here is such an accessory to the sofa, kitchen or subway.
View from the end - the power button, it is also the power button of the Wi-Fi. Connector for microSD, headphones and miniUSSB. ')
Immediately about the main thing. What's new: The screen has become larger - 6 inches, as well as whiter and more contrast.
The most important technical innovation is the wacom touch screen. The screen, if it does not touch the stylus, falls asleep, so as not to eat the battery, and when you press the first time - it wakes up, and the second time you press on what you need. The touch screen extends the control of this device - many buttons are displayed on the screen.
The stylus, by the way, snaps into the case and does not fall out anywhere.
Wi-Fi module. There is a built-in Opera - it automatically scales sites for mobile devices. For example, if there is a mobile version of the site, then it will automatically load it. You can see the mail, not only see, but also respond to letters. You can also edit the text immediately.
Flipping through It has become even faster. Just enough for the eye to notice leafing, but not too long to get bored. Leafs really fast. Do not believe? Here's a video:
You can by the way, and leaf through the stylus. But if you are uncomfortable using the stylus, then you can only control the buttons.
Easily removed from the cover. Very comfortable and fast latch.
Many more technical details that are very important. It has become more convenient menu - no need to scroll back and forth across the entire folder. On the device is Win CE 5.0. This is so that any interested developer can make or polish the program under the book. The book supports hyphenation and viewing pictures. There is a letter that you can enable or disable. Supports a bunch of formats. We will not list here all the sea of ​​formats that the reader opens, but let's say for sure - Doc and RTF opens. Opens files from archives without problems.
Appart is charging through YUSB. And so that a person every time when connecting to a PC does not twitch with it as with a flash drive, we made this option. If a person simply connects the device to the PC, it will simply be charged, and to connect the reader as a USB flash drive in the settings, you need to tick the “Automatic USB connection” (in the photo below). The sound is not bad. Audiobooks can be listened to calmly.
You can translate foreign words on the fly. You can work with dictionaries, load them, for example dictionaries from Lingvo. While reading, you can immediately see the translation of the word, you can also convert dictionaries for this book yourself.
You can read with the right and left hands. You just need to flip the device. Of course, it would be more convenient if the buttons were right under the left hand too, but did not sculpt more buttons, as this would make the device more cumbersome.
And most importantly - the cost. It will cost approximately 1880 UAH. It's about 235 dollars. UPD: price comparisons with competitors are removed, because prices are constantly changing.
As they say, velkam to use.
Reasoning about the future of electronic and simple books, copyright and so on Previously, people wrote on birch bark or clay tablets, and now, as a carrier, they will be e-incons, or there will be something similar - this reader is a grandson of clay tablets. This reader is only a tool. And he refers to what publishers should do - copyright preservation. This exacerbates the problems of the e-payment system. books. In our opinion, one of the main problems is micropayments for e-books, often because more than half of this money goes to payment operators, and not to the authors of the books. About the future development of email. books can be said at all - it is clear that the future is behind them, the paper book is dying out as a carrier, but it will remain as a respected monument, such as the cinema appeared, but the theater still remained, though not so massive.
We want to take into account all the constructive and useful suggestions from users of the product.