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25

Video Review of the Ectaco Jetbook Color e-Reader

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Welcome to the review we have all been waiting for! We go full hands on with the first e-reader in the world to use color e-ink, which mimics real paper! It features a 9.7 inch screen with a resolution of 1600×1200 and 2 GB of internal memory. You can increase the memory via the Micro SD card to give you even more room for comics, magazines, newspapers and more!

This video review documents the entire hardware and shows you the entire unit! The main aspect we focus on during the course of this tutorial is how magazines, newspapers, comic books, game manuals all look! Colors remain crisp and vibrant and I really think this is the closest we get to full color e-paper. We also check out all the student apps that come with the unit and what you can expect.

Stay tuned for our fall written review coming next week and our next video where we compare the Jetbook Color and the new Mirasol Color e-Reader!


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  • AlexM

    Thank you for this review! Where can I buy jetBook Color?

  • uli

    E-Ink Triton on a 9.7 inch screen looks cool. The apps seem to be ok. But everything else is quite disappointing! I can’t imagine to read a book on this device if page turning takes a second. Reading an article of a scientific journal will be practically impossible, as you have to jump between pages a lot. Also there seem to be some bugs (Menu button not working, Zoom, Highlighting) and functionaltiy weaknesses (unable to translate highlighted text, must use OK button to open book, no software implementation of wireless) that hopefully will be resolved in the retail firmware.

    Something important that hasn’t been said in the video:
    In the specified resolution of 1200×1600 all color subpixels are counted. The real resolution (e.g. for displaying b/w text) is 600×800.

  • Andreas

    Do you realize they are using pirated media to review the reader? Shame on you guys.

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     everything we displayed was purchased in its original format. We loaded in the EPUB book with Adobe digital Editions and the PDF Monsters Manual was purchased, ditto with the newspaper which was open source.

  • Andreas

    Pray tell me, where did you buy that Superman pdf ?

  • Andreas

    Or the D&D rulebook, I’d love to buy that a pdf but as far as I know that is NOT available by WOTC.

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  • def4

    The screen looks great, but the software is horrendous.
    I sure hope a more competent company uses the screen to build a great product.

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