eReaders and the true reading experience
Recently we’ve seen some media coverage and blog posts about whether eReaders can deliver a true reading experience. голова болит секс Smile Pretty release
Growing Out movie full Concerns about readability when it comes to eReaders are valid and, we’ve found, a major decision point for people purchasing these devices. And this is exactly why all IREX devices, and the new DR800SG in particular, are carefully designed with the reader and the content in mind. It’s less about having a shiny device that slices, dices and chops, it’s first and foremost about a natural reading experience. голова болит секс
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To get technical for a second, we’ve been working for more than nine years to get our screen brightness level to where it is today. Our testing has enabled us to determine what the right brightness is for a natural reading experience. There are some devices on the market right now that have a finger-touch screen. What they don’t tell you is that to enable finger-touch, an extra screen is required on top of the eInk layer which is highly-reflective and ultimately dulls the brightness and the crispness of the words. So you can touch the screen with your finger, but you’ll feel like you’re reading your computer screen. Considering how often you actually interface with the eReader screen – very little! – it seems like a big trade-off. And that’s why our touchscreen has a stylus.
We think the DR800SG device is just-the-right-size for reading books, newspapers and magazines – the right balance between readability and portability. And when you lose yourself in the content, the fact that you’re holding an electronic device and not turning the pages of an actual book will hardly matter.
Willem Endhoven VP Marketing & Business Development iRex Technologies
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Does DR800GS support Chinese charactor? Or we have to install the font like your other devices by ourself?
Will your next firmware release have the note function?
Thanks.
As a researcher, I’m anxious to see an affordable ebook reader capable of excellent hand written annotation.
The devices (and especially the Iliad) might have been designed with ‘the reader and the content in mind’, but as soon as the reader has bought the device he seems to be gone from IREX’ mind… No updates, no replies to support tickets or forum posts, no support for new content formats.
In my opinion IREX greatly underestimates the possible positive (or negative…) leverage that your early (or less early – these devices are still being sold today) adaptors can give your product.
The DRS-1000 seems to have become another example of unkept promises (battery life, wireless version anyone?).
Really interested to see where this will be heading but as the DR-800 seems to come with another ‘feature to be implemented’ (the option to use the pen to take notes) it appears that history keeps repeating itself…
Definitely hope to be proven wrong though
I’d like buy a DR800SG very much. But when can I get one? And can I buy this in Canada, or in USA only?
in this post you talked about the main problem that stopped me from buying the dr1000s. When I tested it I found it too much reflective, I was seeing myself like in a mirror with a normal ambient light, and I didn’t buy it. This is due for sure to to the extra protective screen layer you put over the e-ink screen to let use the stylus. With other devices,like cybook for example that I just tested the same day of the dr1000, there is not this problem, ’cause they have not the stylus and wacom stuff.
It would be very good if you solved this problem with dr800..
I needto have one in hand to tell
Can you post some pictures of the device displaying a 8.5×11 PDFs? My non-leisure reading materials are printouts of journal articles, and I’m interested in seeing if the DR800SG would work as an alternative.
When the units show up at Best Buy, would I be able to load a paper from its USB port and try it out myself?
@ ex-customer: the wacom sensor is behind the display, so it doesn’t affect how the display looks. In fact, because Cybook and iRex use the same materials, the displays look almost the same. And the iRex displays have 16 greylevels instead of 4 for the Cybook. Did you look at a Sony Reader (700 or 600)? These have an additional sensor in front of the display.
When do we actually get to see the DR 800SG sold in the US Market? Was the best buy pricing of $449 an accident? (I hope so).