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The Jinke Hanlin E Ink machines: A hands-on review–and speculation on a Librie connection
March 9, 2006 | 3:37 pm
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By David Rothman
An intriguing review of a Jinke Hanlin E Ink device has appeared–complete with speculation that the Hanlin came from a plant that also made the Libire. Via a garbled Babelfish translation, here are a few observations from Vladimir Levchenko, writing for The eBook Russia News:
Chinese book was packed into the box to 100% identical to box from SONY Librie. Simply another picture on the external box. I.e., it can be assumed that book was made one and the same plant. Which gladdens….
As is evident on the photo these books have identical overall sizes and weight. Plastic in Son’ki only is better, but precisely “only”. It lusterless, but not shining.
Screens also a little differ. In Son’ki is somewhat better anti-refined coating. It also there is on Jinke, but it is worse. The contrast of screens, whiteness practically identical, can in Jinke barely brighter, and here speed in Chinese book noticeably higher, especially with the paging through of pages and this with the fact that the frequency of processor in it is 4 times less than in dormouse…
Thus far on this everything.
Honestly speaking, I expected entire considerably worse.
4 more than it is astonished.This book can have its market.
Many thanks for sharing this with us, Sergiy!
Related: Full review in machine-translated English and Russian–with more photos. Also: Video of the Jinke V8. Plus: Other TeleBlog posts on the Jinke machines.
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Wow, this is fantastic. I’m glad to see a review with pictures of the Hanlin unit. I was worried that their product was vaporware. It doesn’t say, but I assume this is the V8.
The resemblance to the Librie is certainly striking. That’s a little disappointing, as I had hoped for a “next-generation” product, but then again the failures of the Librie were in software/format support (addressed by Hanlin) and the refresh rate, which this review says is considerably better.
All in all, the Hanlin device is looking like my choice for a new ebook reader, unless I get a fantastic employee discount on the Sony.
Hey, Bingle, glad to cheer you up. Now if we can get The Bird to stop being so fixated on use of the V word. Sometimes these products are actually real. Thanks. David
It looks very nice. I’m not holding my breath that it will work with a Mac, but even if it only works with windows computers it should be a good step forward especially if they manage toundercut Sony on price while at the same time avoiding Sony’s lock in with a proprietary ebook format and ebookstore.
It is not a repackaging of the librie. The librie keypad is implemented in the circuit board, so any modification of key positions asks for a new printed board. For the Sony Reader the modifications are very minimal if any, because all the keys are in the same board space that the Librie ones. But this Hanlin shows keys in new positions.
Of course it could be all implemented (including the touchscreen) by using the undocumented expansion bus in the Librie board but I strongly doubt it.
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