The 3rd generation Icarus Illumina e-reader is very appealing to anyone who is looking for a device capable of running Android Jelly Bean and employing the Google Play Store. The size of the screen is six inches and features a resolution of 1024 x 768. You can swipe and gesture via the multitouch capacitive touch screen. You can flip through pages by swiping the screen and open option menus by tapping the screen once, there are also manual page turn buttons.
This unboxing video will give you a sense on the overall design and some of the commonality factors this device has with other e-readers on the market.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
