Elonex 700Eb perfomance

[TFTC]

I found the Elonex 700Eb Colour ebook reader at Kalahari(http://www.kalahari.net/electronics/Elonex-700EB-Colour-e-Reader/18950/38931913.aspx ) at a decent price with decent battery life. For all those who have used the tablet can anyone confirm the following: 1) that the device allows you to take notes as you read 2) that it runs on Android - which means it can be rooted to bring more functionality and apps

 

[abraxis]

One word .... DON'T! It's a POS ... reboots all the time and the claimed battery life is a complete fabrication. Trying to get hold of Elonex for support is a joke.

I see there's a firmware update that may resolve the reboot issue - I'll give that a try and report back.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Is Elonex still alive?

I thought they died out long ago....

 

[TFTC]

One word .... DON'T! It's a POS ... reboots all the time and the claimed battery life is a complete fabrication. Trying to get hold of Elonex for support is a joke.

I see there's a firmware update that may resolve the reboot issue - I'll give that a try and report back.

thanks for the heads up. do you know of any similar alternative on the SA market?

 

[Hemps]

Can you load downloaded PDF magazines onto this thing?

 

[TFTC]

Seems its possible according to the spec sheet

 

[Hemps]

I must admit having done research since this morning, it seems like a very good deal, well for what I want it for and that's reading magazines I download.

I'm busy with calibre now, only thing that bugs me is converting pdf docs. to a format this device can read - and then making sure I can actually read them on this device and the font isnt too small or too much zooming etc.