I’ll post a separate review to test a Bluetooth keyboard and speakers next week. It has no text-to-speech support or audio apps built-in, and there’s not even a note app for using a Bluetooth keyboard, so you pretty much have to sideload something to make use of it. The InkBook Prime has Bluetooth support but I’m not entirely sure why. The only downside with the frontlight is that it’s a little too bright at the lowest setting in a dark room for my eyes to tolerate. The screen’s frontlight looks really nice it doesn’t have any weird colors or tones at all like some frontlights. It features a 6-inch 1024 x 768 resolution E Ink Carta screen and a two-point capacitive touchscreen with good responsiveness. The speed can go up to 1.6 GHz and that certainly helps for some things, but when comparing ebook page turns and menu actions with the InkBook Classic 2’s dual-core processor they were virtually the same-the Prime does turn pages faster with PDFs though.Īside from the processor, it has the same 512MB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage space as the earlier InkBook Obsidian, and it has a microSD card slot as well. The InkBook Prime is the first ereader I’ve reviewed with a quad-core processor. It doesn’t activate if you just brush over it or press and hold down on it like when you’re holding the device from the bottom it only activates with a deliberate press and release action so accidental presses aren’t a problem. The page buttons work well and their placement makes it easy to rest a thumb on the page forward button while holding the reader comfortably one-handed.Īt first I didn’t think I would get along with the back button sensor below the screen because the one on the Nook GlowLight Plus is super sensitive and easy to trigger, but the one on the InkBook Prime has been programmed more effectively. The page buttons can be programmed for a number of functions in the settings menu, which is nice because that gives you more control over how to use the device and it makes the buttons useful with apps like Kindle that require using volume buttons to turn pages. It has an attractive design with a flush glass screen and a set of two page buttons on each side, with a sensor button below the screen that acts as a back button. The InkBook Prime excels in the hardware and design department. The InkBook’s reading app is very basic by comparison, but one of the main benefits with the Android operating system is you can install a number of other reading apps if you want to, and the Kindle app even works pretty well. The device makes a good option for those that want an open Android ereader, but in terms of reading alone it’s hard to compare the InkBook Prime with dedicated ereaders like Kindles and Kobos because they have way more reading features included. The Prime is more comfortable to hold and the page buttons are easily mappable so they work with 3rd party apps. The design is an improvement over the Obsidian, though. They removed all the non-reading apps like email and the notepad and just left a bare minimum of apps to start with, and it’s not easy to add more because they removed the Midiapolis appstore that had a wide selection of apps, so you have to go find app files yourself and sideload them manually. The software has been trimmed down from what was on the InkBook Obsidian, the previous model. It’s noticeably faster and more responsive than Android ereaders I’ve reviewed in the past, and the screen refresh is better with 3rd party apps, but the software is also more basic and there aren’t as many features so it comes with some trade-offs. The InkBook Prime is one of the best Android ereaders that I’ve reviewed in terms of performance.
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