I suppose it was one of those evenings when I felt too lazy to do anything and pondered how to burn time. Since I am a bit of an electronic ink addict (this line should've made it to Neuromancer!) I went for making this handy 13.3" readers comparison table and how Onyx fares against the rest of the world. The situation is becoming quite interesting at the moment, hence the idea.
Specifications:
Notes:
A few observation based on the given data:
Any mistakes gimme a shout! :thumbsup:
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Onyx Boox Max [a] Icarus A4 [c] Good e-Reader 13.3 [b] Sony DPT-S1 [d] PocketBook CAD [e]
* based on | Onyx 13.3 | Onyx 13.3 | Netronix [10] | --- | --- | * based on
* ships from | Germany | Eindhoven, Netherlands | Vancouver, BC Canada | various retailers | ? | * ships from
* screen | 1600x1200 E-ink Mobius | 1600x1200 E-ink Mobius | 1600x1200 E-ink Mobius | 1600x1200 E-ink Mobius | 1600x1200 E-ink Fina [3] | * screen
* input technology | inductive, pen based | inductive, pen based | capacitive + EM [5][9] | capacitive | capacitive | * input technology
* dimensions | 23.7 x 32.5 x 0.75 cm | 24 x 32.5 x 0.9 cm | 23.3 x 31.0 x 0.66 cm | 23.3 x 31.0 x 0.68 cm | 24.1 x 30.9 x 0.96 cm | * dimensions
* weight | 490 g | 500 g | 350 g | 358 g | 700 g | * weight
* operating system | Android 4.0.4 [1] | Android ? | Android 4.0.4 [2] | Sony's own or Android 2.2 [6] | Android 4.0.4 | * operating system
* CPU processor | iMX6 SoloLite 1GHz | ? | iMX6 SoloLite [9] | Freescale i.MX508 | Dual-core 1GHz | * CPU processor
| Cortex A9 | | | at 800Mhz or 1Ghz | Freescale iMX.6 Dual-Lite |
* RAM memory | 1 GB LPDDR2 | 1 GB | 512 MB | 1 GB [7] | 2 GB | * RAM memory
* internal memory | 16 GB | 16 GB | 4 GB | 4 GB | 16 GB | * internal memory
* battery | 4100 mAh | 4100 mAh | 1270 mAh | 1270 mAh | 8000 mAh | * battery
* Bluetooth | yes | yes | no [4][c][8] | no | ? | * Bluetooth
* audio | yes | yes | no [4][c][8] | no | yes | * audio
* Text-To-Speech TTS | yes | yes (Pico TTS) | --- | --- | ? | * Text-To-Speech TTSNotes:
- [1] Upgrade to Android 4.4 possible. (source)
- [2] Will be offering Android 5.0 as an optional firmware update soon after we release the product. (source)
- [3] Pocketbook spoke about two similar devices, at first, about one with Fina and, later, about the other one with Mobius. (source)
- [4] (source)
- [5] (source)
- [6] apparently hackable to Android 2.2. (source)
- [7] (source)
- [8] (source)
- [9] (source)
- [10] (source)
A few observation based on the given data:
- Both Sony and Good e-Reader are considerably lighter, whereas PocketBook is considerably heavier.
- If there was a way for a *free* upgrade of Sony to Android, I think that Sony could make an interesting option if cheap second hand units became available given the above. Or maybe not, too many ifs here and that extra hassle...
- Pocketbook has a dual-core processor but can/will PDF page rendering be parallelised? If so that would be nice because for me personally quite often the bottleneck is not the screen refresh but the page rendering.
- Pocketbook has 2 GB RAM thrown in to support big PDF (CAD) documents, I suppose, but this may not matter much for regular folk.
- While Boox and Icarus are generous with the battery, PocketBook has double that.
Any mistakes gimme a shout! :thumbsup: