My own personal review for this WISEreader N526 5 Inch Touch Screen E-Reader. Let’s get straight to the point. This time I list the cons first.
Cons:
Buttons sometimes get stuck for Page Down and Page Down
The included notepad sleeve enables you the keyboard useless sometimes simulating two buttons at the same time due to the plastic covering the keyboard.
The writing part for memopad and notepad has a delay where its un-natural when doing handwriting with it.
Reading a text file was cutoff to the bottom. Making no sense when reading it and no way of going up or down by a little bit. No matter if you make the screen size bigger or smaller.
The sym key takes you back to the Home menu. And the menu key is a menu settings page. The button to make the text bigger has some weird icon to it, not straight to the point. There’s a refresh look alike icon on one of the button and it doesn’t do anything.
There’s no way to rotate the screen, but they claim rotation is capable. We’ll have to wait for a software upgrade or something.
I would have thought that it would bookmark automatically, but not for the pdf. It would jump around to pages that are two too far or two too early.
It doesn’t go into save mode in 5 minutes increments, but rather by 30 minutes increments.
No WiFi in this demo model, so I can’t compare how it would look if I were to look for books online directly from it.
Pros:
It allows you to create folders when you put files in there. So that’s a good thing.
It reads text to you in English and Bahasa Indonesia very well, supposedly Chinese as well, but not tested here.
You can set the text size while reading a PDF. I can’t do that with the kindle. So that’s a plus.
Touch Screen with e-ink.
Conclusion: It’s just too bad that the Operating System is Win CE 5.0 on this demo unit, though Linux is an option, I would opt for that one instead. This device bill of material should be $170, but they claim it’s $250. WOW! Definitely not worth it and it doesn’t make sense. The built of material for Kindle is about $155. a 9 inch touch screen add-on module for EEE by itself is $15, not including the controller. This device is 5 inch, so the cost should be at most $170.
The only part I really like about this device is that it’s very light, lighter than the Kindle, 200 Grams vs. 292 Grams and I can tell the difference. The other part I like about this that distinguish it from the Kindle is the touch screen. I can have my son doodle on it, or I can take notes with it if I don’t feel like bringing my Tablet PC.
Overall: I would get it if the screen is 6 inch at least, has the 3G module, I don’t really care for the WiFi module, and if the placement of the buttons would be on both sides. Other than that, it’s good enough, but still not satisfied with it, not until I test it with WiFi.
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