Pandigital Novel 7 Colour Ereader Prd07t20wbl1 4 at Amazon
Most helpful customer reviews 115 of 119 people found the following review helpful. 19 of 21 people found the following review helpful. The Pandigital Novel attracted my attention because it looks like a cross between the Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble NOOK Color. I know that when used as an eBook reader, the Novel is probably not as good as neither Kindle nor Nook. But it is very inexpensive, and seems to be more flexible than a dedicated eBook reader. For example, when compared to Kindle, the Novel has the following advantages: When compared to Nook Color, the Novel is: My initial impression on the Novel was less than favorable. The main problem is that its processor speed is too slow. The machine takes about 1 minute to boot up. The touch screen needs about 0.5 second to register any command. Every program launch is preceded by 5-10 seconds of blank screen. Web page refresh takes 20-30 seconds, and so on. It was truly frustrating in the beginning. But eventually, I was able to train myself to slow down enough for the machine to catch up. The usefulness of Android market is greatly over-rated. Novel runs an ancient Android 1.5 operating system. So most new apps are not available. That means NO ANGRY BIRDS! You can forget about YouTube and Amazon “Free App of the Day”, too. Fortunately, I was able to download the two most important programs from external web sites, namely: With FBReader installed, I then went to ‘Project Gutenberg’ site (look up ‘gutenberg dot org’) and downloaded dozens of classical books for free. Some are even available in audio book formats, which allow me to both READ and HEAR the same book from my Novel. The Novel has very limited video capability. It is supposed to support MP4, but only in SP (simple profile). Most of the MP4/AVI files I tested cannot be decoded. Fortunately, I found a program to download MP4 files from YouTube using my ‘real’ tablet (the VIZIO VTAB1008). After that, I was able to show off “Who’s on first?” and “Duck Season! Rabbit Season!” on my Novel. Oh life was good… but not for long. Right from the beginning, I have had intermittent problems in booting the machine. Initially, I was still able to boot up after several retries (sometimes with the AC adapter connected, sometimes without). But as of yesterday, this machine is no more… It has ceased to be… This is an EX-MACHINE! Amazon doesn’t have any machine available for exchange, so my only option left is to get a refund. This is such a pity. But frankly, after investing so much time into this machine only to have it die on me, I’m not sure I can go through it again. For those of you who still want to try the Novel, I can only say: GOOD LUCK! [Update on Oct 23, 2011] |
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