Pandigital E-Reader Review

Sunday, December 19, 2010
If you know of Pandigital, you probably know for digital photo frames. However, the company moved into the electronic book reader market hot for a device that many people have been waiting for affordable color display e-book reader with links to a large bookstore.


Integrated with Barnes & Noble store e-book, the novel is a Pandigital eBook Reader Android has a touch screen 7-inch color screen, wireless and multimedia capabilities.


In addition, the novel is driven by Pandigital ARM11 has 2 GB of internal memory and an SD / SDHC. The device has a mini-USB port, built-in battery lithium-ion battery for up to six hours of reading and orientation sensor. This new book is compatible with popular e-book formats such as PDF and EPUB, and comes with built-in dictionary and word / character search function.


Throughout the novel a brave attempt to establish a value price, color, mail Reader is based on Android, the short of its mark. A $ 175 (rates to 10 August 2010), the novel is expensive compared with (competitor) 's latest $ 139 for a single function, the Kindle e-ink based e-Reader. And as a tablet / e-reader combo that will compete with Apple iPad, the novel is slow, and lacks the diversity that awaits the user a true tablet.


With Wi-Fi, you can view and buy books Barnes & Noble e-book or import your own PDF and EPUB. (You can drag and drop files from any PC with Windows or Mac, or load it on an SD card.) Resolution is something that can be expected to struggle in the novel. The resistive touch screen 7-inch 800x600 pixel LCD screen is mediocre at best. If the screen is white (as read in the rule books), lit the light of the deflection of the text is confusing, with conspicuous places. to use Indeed, I found it easier on the eyes to the option of the night reading, which makes the background black and white text - although the pixelation, the text was more explicit.


the image quality is not the only one suffering. The performance of the device is slow, the navigation and basic tasks such as making page flipping on a task (click on the side of the page to move forward or backward, or your finger in the desired direction to change the page.) Some questions about the ability of the reaction, the resistive touch screen, the staff, provide an ability to touch, but it was very frustrating to use, and not responding. With a simple pencil the trick, but the defeat of the purpose of the touch screen functions.


The many useful applications preinstalled. Included Barnes & Noble Reader is a Web browser, music player, videos and photos, e-mail, a boutique B & N ", the request for the purchase of books and more, an alarm clock, calendar, a search application, one for the import of content from the SD card, and others for actions, Facebook, contacts, weather, games, Adobe eBook, a dictionary and an improvement (update firmware). But the implementation of the Market (you need to Android receive applications from non-market sources can.)


In theory, I have the idea of a tablet, not more with the functionality of many found in practice, I pretty boring novel that these tests is best left on a smartphone or laptop.


Pandigital novel is too expensive given its many flaws. For those looking for a portable device that does not need a smartphone, I see that it might be nice, but the novel is simply too slow and the screen is difficult to meet many people. The novel is a positive step in the compressed universe, but it takes a lot of work before it can survive in this booming industry.

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