There will probably be a discussion like there is with portable DVD players VS. portable computers in this thread, but:
a) This is a really nice unit that is easy to hold
b) Closest to reading a real book that I have had
c) you can easily load you own content (any rev. of firmware of you have looked into this in the past and thought that you could not)
d) Still sells for $599 according to last week's rip-off skymall catalog.
e) I have tested with a 512MB cf card - enough to keep you reading for ages......
I personally picked up 8 of these off of ebay before they were "discovered" to give to relatives and
for the batteries ($90 for a replacement battery - why do that when you used to be able to pick up a whole unit for $60-70)? A typical charge lasts for 5-6 hours.
Very nice backlight, firmware is much more stable than the REB1100(which is actually pretty good)
I use this much more than my 1100's, the monochrome IPAQ i picked up for .lit files when Franklin FINIALLY admitted that they would not support .lit's even though it advertised the fact on their boxes, and yes, for reference, I did own an origional Rocketbook.
Through a posting in this forum I did pick up a couple of Franklin 911's for $50 and picked up several franklin units for under $30 at Best Buy when they were closing out. Now that Franklin FINIALLY has a decent OS for the thing, I would recommend the franklins as well - but at a $50 price point. IMHO if franklin had the software as well done now as they had when it first came out, palm would not exist anymore. But the origional software sucked big time, was very alpha, and turned too many people off. And they have not improved the hardware from the first generation. Best thing for the Franklin is the replaceable batteries for when you get stuck in airports. Better performance though from the new Sony PDA with replaceable batteries..... and a better backlight and higher resolution dispay. Just the darn (not the word I wanted to use) Sony memory as opposed to the cheaper more widely used standards....
Anyway - the REB1200 is one heck of a unit, easy to edit/out in markups, very easy on the eyes, and for my generation (Very Early 40's) that was brought up to read and remembers when MTV stood for Music Television,
a great way to read and save paper.
Cheaper and much more easily readable display than the Heibook, but I have not yet seen the "new"
heibook model. Easy to put in color, several nice tools that people have developed because they love the machine,
and it is just damn nice to be able to download a book from one of the many public domain places, (or Usenet, not that anyone of us would do that....) instead of paying $8 for a paperback.
a) This is a really nice unit that is easy to hold
b) Closest to reading a real book that I have had
c) you can easily load you own content (any rev. of firmware of you have looked into this in the past and thought that you could not)
d) Still sells for $599 according to last week's rip-off skymall catalog.
e) I have tested with a 512MB cf card - enough to keep you reading for ages......
I personally picked up 8 of these off of ebay before they were "discovered" to give to relatives and
for the batteries ($90 for a replacement battery - why do that when you used to be able to pick up a whole unit for $60-70)? A typical charge lasts for 5-6 hours.
Very nice backlight, firmware is much more stable than the REB1100(which is actually pretty good)
I use this much more than my 1100's, the monochrome IPAQ i picked up for .lit files when Franklin FINIALLY admitted that they would not support .lit's even though it advertised the fact on their boxes, and yes, for reference, I did own an origional Rocketbook.
Through a posting in this forum I did pick up a couple of Franklin 911's for $50 and picked up several franklin units for under $30 at Best Buy when they were closing out. Now that Franklin FINIALLY has a decent OS for the thing, I would recommend the franklins as well - but at a $50 price point. IMHO if franklin had the software as well done now as they had when it first came out, palm would not exist anymore. But the origional software sucked big time, was very alpha, and turned too many people off. And they have not improved the hardware from the first generation. Best thing for the Franklin is the replaceable batteries for when you get stuck in airports. Better performance though from the new Sony PDA with replaceable batteries..... and a better backlight and higher resolution dispay. Just the darn (not the word I wanted to use) Sony memory as opposed to the cheaper more widely used standards....
Anyway - the REB1200 is one heck of a unit, easy to edit/out in markups, very easy on the eyes, and for my generation (Very Early 40's) that was brought up to read and remembers when MTV stood for Music Television,
a great way to read and save paper.
Cheaper and much more easily readable display than the Heibook, but I have not yet seen the "new"
heibook model. Easy to put in color, several nice tools that people have developed because they love the machine,
and it is just damn nice to be able to download a book from one of the many public domain places, (or Usenet, not that anyone of us would do that....) instead of paying $8 for a paperback.
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