LCD E-Book Reader Matrix
From MobileRead
LCD display technology has the distinct advantage over E Ink of instant page turns and on a few devices, color. Since the display is instant, interactive touchscreen features such as search with on-screen keyboard, annotations, and highlighting are possible. Often these devices have an instant boot time due to not using Linux as the OS.
There is some technical information and another matrix comparing reader devices here: (it is oriented toward eBook formats)
[edit] Matrix (LCD devices)
| Brandname | EBookwise-1150 (GEB 1150) | REB 1200 (Gemstar eBook 2150) | jetBook also Dr. Yi, Aluratek, Chinese eBook reader M218B] (M218A, M218B) | Jointech JE100 |
| Dimensions | 5” x 7.5” x 1.5” | 7.5” x 9” x 1.25” | 154mm x 110mm x 13.5mm (6" x 4.3" x .53") | 182 × 117 × 14.5 mm |
| Screen Technology | Grayscale LCD | Color LCD | Grayscale Reflective LCD | Color LCD |
| Primary Display (with ppi) | 5.5" HVGA 320x480 4 bit, 104 ppi | 8.2" Color VGA 480x640 15 bit, 97.3 ppi | 5" VGA 480x640 4bit, 160 ppi | 7" 480x800, 16bit |
| Screen Color Depth | 16 grayscale | 32,768 colors | 16 grayscale | 65,536 colors |
| Touch Screen | yes | yes | no | yes |
| Full-screen Refresh Rate | 0.03s | 0.03s | .02s | ? |
| Power | Li-ion ?Ah | Li-ion 970 mAh | Li-ion 3Ah | Li-Ion 1500mAh |
| Battery Life | 20 hours | 10 hours | 22 hours | 3-6 hours |
| Weight | 18 oz | 33 oz | 7.5 oz | 8.8 oz (250gr) |
| OS | proprietary | proprietary | Linux based proprietary | proprietary and WinCE 5.0 |
| Boot Time | 1 to 2s (100 ebooks) | 10s (100 ebooks) 5s (no ebooks) | ? | ? |
| SDK | no | no | ? | ? |
| CPU | Cirrus Logic ARM-7 | Motorola MCF5102 ColdFire | ARM9 200Mhz | Samsung ARM920T 400Mhz |
| Memory (internal) | 8MB | 8MB | 128MB | 64MB Ram, 128MB NAND Flash |
| Expansion Slots (external) | SMC (max. 128 MB) | CF (max. 2 GB) | SD (up to 2 GB) | TF (micro SD) (up to 4GB) |
| Other Interfaces | USB 1.1 | USB 1.1, Ethernet | USB 1.1, Wifi(M218B only) | USB2.0, WiFi (with external USB device) |
| Supported Formats | IMP (Grayscale HalfVGA) | IMP (Color FullVGA) | FB2 JPG GIF PNG BMP PDF TXT MP3 , (Dr Yi: PDF, TXT, HTML, EBA, WOLF)(Aluratek: PDF, TXT, RTF, FB2, HTML, EPUB, MOBI, PRC. Picture formats supported are BMP, JPG, GIF, Animated GIF. Audio format supported is MP3.) | (proprietary ?), Powerpoint, Excel, Word, JPG, PNG, BMP, TXT, PDF |
| Supported DRM Formats | internal | internal (with ETI firmware upgrade) | EBA, WOLF | (proprietary ?), PRC (Mobipocket) |
| Search functionality / Dictionary lookup | yes | yes | (proprietary ?), yes (Mobipocket) | |
| Note taking? highlighting / underlining / bookmarking? | yes | yes | yes | (proprietary ?), yes (Mobipocket) |
| Software | eBook Publisher | eBook Publisher | Ectaco | ? |
| Services | ? | ? | none | |
| Content Partners | ? | ? | LingvoSoft (for Translating Dictionaries) | none |
| Price | US$99 | US$700 (about US$200 Ebay) | US$300 (Aluratek list $249 Oct 2009) | US$270 |
| Release Date | 2004 | 2001 | 2008 | June 2009 |
| Misc Info | ? | ? | available in red, grey, white and black housings | USB Ports: Host: 1 Device: Built in Speaker/ headphone |
[edit] External Links
- www.ebookwise.com for EBookwise-1150
- REB1200 for Dummies for REB 1200
- eBook Publisher for content conversion and publishing software
- Everything about electronic books reading
- Where to Buy?
