Nowadays, in addition to focusing on mobile phone applications, book resources and other software, Palm Reading also focuses on hardware products such as ink screen electronic paper books, and in the domestic electronic paper book brands, Palm Reading has also achieved the level of "one brother". On February1this month, Palm Reading released a new electronic paper book with 7-inch ink screen, light, portable and side-holding design: iReader Ocean 2, which not only enriched the product line, but also gave users who like portable and side-holding design a new choice.
Then, let me show you all aspects of the design and experience of reading iReader Ocean 2.
Look at the design first. IReader Ocean 2 is equipped with a 7-inch ink screen with a resolution of 1680* 1264 and a PPI of 300. The ink screen is covered with a glare-treated glass screen. Personally, I think this screen size is just right, and it belongs to the kind of reading experience that is convenient to carry and can bring moderate display size.
There are two physical buttons on the right side of the front of iReader Ocean 2. When reading a book, you can page up and down, and you can customize the buttons, that is, you can freely set the functions of the buttons, such as global refresh and return.
Palm reading iReader Ocean 2 screen display effect real shot, clear and delicate.
The weight and body design also affect whether an electronic paper book can bring a high-quality reading experience. The weight of reading iReader Ocean 2 is about170g, so reading for a long time will not bring discomfort to hands.
The body of the palm reading iReader Ocean 2 adopts a side grip design, which can make the electronic paper book thinner on the one hand and bring a more comfortable grip on the other. However, this side grip design is not original, and the Kindle oasis series is also used.
In addition, the surface of iReader Ocean 2 is coated with anti-pollution and wear-resistant UV, which can effectively prevent the fuselage from being contaminated with hand lines and scratches.
From another angle, I'll show you the slim body of iReader Ocean 2. The thinnest part is only about 3.5mm, and the physical buttons are on the right. The top position of the palm reading iReader Ocean 2 is equipped with MIC, Type-C interface, charging indicator light and power button.
A loudspeaker is arranged at the bottom position. At the same time, I personally feel that the practicality of reading iReader Ocean 2 is greatly improved because of the design of speakers and microphones. Theoretically, it can be said that it is a 7-inch ink screen tablet without a camera.
In terms of design, I think it can only occupy one-third of the whole experience of reading iReader Ocean 2, and it cannot completely determine the "good or bad" experience of reading iReader Ocean 2. The remaining two-thirds of the experience is mainly in system, reading, function and so on. Otherwise, if the experience is "there is a golden place outside", can it be applauded? So this part mainly talks about the reading system, reading and functional experience of iReader Ocean 2.
Palm reading iReader Ocean 2 is equipped with a closed self-developed system, that is, no third-party APP can be installed, but I think everyone likes a different reading platform. Although the palm reading iReader Ocean 2 is backed by the palm reading bookstore and has hundreds of thousands of books to read, it is suggested that other reading platforms can be built in subsequent updates to meet the needs of different users.
As for the system of reading iReader Ocean 2, it is mainly divided into three functional areas: bookshelf, book city and setting. The bookshelf contains all the books you have read, which is equivalent to historical browsing; Bookstore is online reading; Setup is to set up the system, send books and open some system functions.
When reading iReader Ocean 2, slide down from the top of the screen to bring up the system shortcut setting bar, and you can quickly set WLAN and screen brightness. At the same time, there are three reading light modes in the setting bar: day, night and bed. Because reading iReader Ocean 2 supports 28 levels of cold and warm light adjustment, choosing appropriate reading lights in different scenes can bring better and more comfortable reading effects, such as using warm light when the light is poor at night.
In addition, in order to operate the palm iReader Ocean 2 more conveniently, the palm reader is equipped with an "intelligent assistant" function in the shortcut setting bar. After opening, a "point" will appear on the system interface, through which some operations such as global refresh and returning to the previous page can be quickly realized.
The above picture shows the effect of clicking the Smart Assistant. You can perform four shortcut operations, and you can also change the settings of enabled shortcut operations through the bottom management function. The intelligent assistant, plus two physical buttons and a touch screen, makes it possible to read iReader Ocean 2 in the whole palm.
The above picture shows the setting function area of iReader Ocean 2. You can set and operate WLAN, Bluetooth, reading, display, general, tools (other functions) and so on.
In the reading settings, we can freely set whether the page turning mode of reading iReader Ocean 2 is right or left. Or page number, whether to double-page in landscape mode, the most interesting function is "Eye of the Sky".
After the Eye of Providence is turned on, some keywords in the text will be automatically marked when reading. Clicking on the keywords will give some relevant knowledge, but only if the reading of iReader Ocean 2 is in a normal online state.
For example, in the book Water Margin, the "Song Jiang" in the book is automatically marked. You can see Song Jiang's encyclopedia and related knowledge chain by clicking on it, which is equivalent to an intelligent science popularization.
In addition, the content that is not automatically marked in the text also supports long press through the touch screen and manual query with the eye of the sky. One more thing, long press on the touch screen can not only use the function of Eye of Heaven, but also take notes, underline, look up the dictionary, translate and listen to pronunciation.
Both Chinese and English support dictionaries and translation operations.
By the way, I have also measured that when reading imported books with my palm reading iReader Ocean 2, other functions such as dictionary and translation can be used normally except the eye of God. In this way, reading iReader Ocean 2 can not only read books, but also find out the definition, translation and pronunciation of words you don't understand during reading. Coupled with the eye protection function of the ink screen, I believe it can bring learning experience to some users.
The above picture shows the display setting interface of iReader Ocean 2.
Reading some classical Chinese books by reading iReader Ocean 2 will have notes.
Palm reading iReader Ocean 2 horizontal screen reading effect real shot.
Because reading iReader Ocean 2 has a speaker design, each book supports the function of listening to books when reading online, and the sound and speech speed can be set, and there are some children's books in the online bookstore, so I think reading iReader Ocean 2 for children is also a good experience.
Palm reading iReader Ocean 2 is optimized for browsing local PDF books, and supports rearrangement, contrast adjustment, paging/trimming, etc. The rearrangement function uses the Reink rearrangement engine of iReader Ocean 2 to browse the contents of PDF books through the built-in reading mode. Simply put, it is equivalent to a "conversion" function, but it will be rearranged at the same time.
Just like the picture above, if you don't browse the contents of a PDF book through the rearrangement function, you can only zoom in and out the mobile fonts if you want to see it clearly. Browsing is the same as looking at photos, and because the ink screen is slow to refresh, some books will exceed the screen after being enlarged, and the reading experience will naturally be ineffective.
However, browsing the rearranged PDF books, just like browsing the online books in the iReader Ocean 2 system, also supports listening to books.
Include adjusting fonts and font sizes.
The rearranged PDF book content also supports the dictionary and translation operation of words and words by long pressing the touch screen.
Read the list of specific file formats and transmission and export methods supported by iReader Ocean 2.
Palm read the real shot of the effect after iReader Ocean 2 turns on the warm light.
The above picture is actually the tool function of reading iReader Ocean 2, which has many transmission (books and files can be transmitted), export methods and some practical functions, such as translation and dictionary.
Shooting with dictionary function, which also supports new word books, can completely use the palm reading of iReader Ocean 2 as an electronic dictionary for eye protection.
By the way, as far as battery life is concerned, the handheld iReader Ocean 2 has a built-in 1800mAh battery. According to personal measurement, when the 10 reading light is turned on, I read 1 hour, which is refreshed once every 10 page on average, and only consumes 1% electricity. This endurance performance still makes me quite satisfied.
So, is iReader Ocean 2 worth seeing? Are there any shortcomings? Regardless of the size of the ink screen, reading iReader Ocean 2 in all aspects is quite good, including speakers and microphones. You can not only read and listen to books, but also learn. Side grip design, plus pollution-proof, wear-resistant and ultraviolet-proof, light and portable body design, the grip is also very comfortable; There is also 800 hours of standby capacity. And then the starting price of 1299 is enough to show that it is worth reading iReader Ocean 2.
And why not throw away the size of the ink screen? Because everyone may have different requirements for size, and some people like larger screens, such as 10 inch or smaller 6 inch. Do you think it is possible for these users to start an electronic paper book whose screen size is not within their requirements?
As for the disadvantage, it is that iReader Ocean 2 is a closed system design, so it can't install third-party applications, and its playability is reduced. But if you think about it carefully, there is nothing wrong with watching iReader Ocean 2 shut down the system for security and other issues.