Cybook Gen3 e-Book Reviewed

by Sze | Filed under MultiMedia

Cybook Gen3 e-Book

TFOT posted a Cybook Gen3 e-Book review. The Cybook Gen3 e-Book comes with a Samsung 200MHz processor, 8MB ROM, 16MB RAM and 64MB flash memory. It features a 6-inch E-ink screen with 600×800 resolution and a SD card slot that supports also SDHC.

Formats supported include: e-book (Mobipocket PRC, PalmDoc, HTML, TXT, PDF), image (JPG, GIF, PNG), sound (MP3), fonts (TTF).

TFOT has summed up the review:

Pros

* Fast—faster than the Sony PRS-505
* Thin, light, and small
* Very good battery life, (8,000 page-flips, according to Bookeen, and many hours of MP3 playback, revealed by our test)
* Latest e-paper screen—very comfortable to read in a well-lit environment
* Mobipocket format and software is excellent
* Good—and free—RSS support

Cons

* Cumbersome page-flip mechanism
* Only a few, small hardware buttons
* Current firmware (late February 2008) lacks folder and subfolder capabilities, making anything with more than 100 items difficult to find
* Incomplete PDF support—some files don’t open or crash the device
* No SDHC support
* No wireless connectivity