![]() ![]() This could be irksome if you are browsing a store and looking at the various titles on the screen, by the time you find something you like and click on the cover art the signal has to be reinitialized which takes time. One of the downsides about the Prime is that WIFI tends to automatically shut off if you are not using it. You will be able to hook up a pair of Bluetooth headphones or speakers to the Prime and listen to music or an audiobook. It has wireless internet access and Bluetooth, but no speakers. The 2000mAh Li-ION Polymer battery should last around four weeks of using the stock e-reading experience and the dimensions are 159×114×9 mm and weighs 168 g. If you feel like enhancing it further you can slot in a 32GB SD Card. There is 8GB of internal storage, which i s double the standard amount that ships with most e-readers. Underneath the hood is a Quad-Core Cortex A9 up to 1.6 GHz processor and 512MB of RAM. There is a large demographic of people who ride public transit and are holding onto a pole or guard rail with one hand and read with the other. I think page turn buttons are tremendous on e-readers. The back of the Prime has a grooved contour that is meant to assist in holding it with one hand. The Prime has buttons on the left and right side, which means you can hold it with one hand and quickly flip pages. Many companies have abandoned manual page turn buttons and rely exclusively on the touchscreen to turn the pages of an e-book. You can read in the dark via the front-lit display and it has 8 LED lights, which provides great illumination that is evenly distributed across the screen. The screen is completely flush with the bezel, this makes it easier to use the touchscreen. The InkBook Prime features a six inch e-Ink Carta touchscreen with a resolution of 1024 x 758 and 212 PPI. The overall build quality premium device is really solid and it won a Red Dot award for industrial design. Note that when you first open a book the onscreen menu is visible and the buttons won’t work with it open, so you have to make sure to tap the screen to close the menu before using the buttons.Īdditionally, you can add the Kindle app to the list of apps on the InkBook’s homescreen by going to Settings > General > Modify applications shortcuts.Arta Tech has been developing e-readers for a number of years and have scored a major victory with the InkBook Prime. Hit save, the InkBook will restart, and then you can use the page buttons to turn pages with the Kindle app. Volume down is page forward and volume up is page back. From there you can assign whichever buttons you want as volume up and volume down. With that enabled, you can now launch the InkBook’s setting menu and go to General > Change button functions. The text that describes the setting is invisible (one of the problems with Android apps and E Ink), so it’s impossible to know that it enables page turns with volume buttons unless you’re familiar with the app. ![]() On the Settings page, you need to check the first box under Application Settings. To activate the buttons, go to the Kindle app’s homescreen or library view and open the left menu list, scroll down and select Settings. Using the page buttons works better and provides a cleaner look. You can use the touchscreen to swipe pages but the animations are rather awkward on an E Ink screen. If you open a book you’ll notice that the InkBook’s page buttons don’t work. Select one of the library views from the left menu panel, such as “All Items”. The app works better from the library view than from the homescreen carousel view. The Kindle app takes awhile to load initially so it requires some patience, and make sure Wi-Fi is turned on or it will just hang. Then launch the app and sign into your Amazon account. ![]()
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