Many review sites that do have an Irex Iliad eBook Reader Review actually only feature the entry level model, so those looking for some insight into the Iliad Electronic Reader DR 1000S are left frustrated with the lack of genuine information regarding the fantastic large format model.
The first and most obvious difference you notice, when you set eyes on the DR1000S, is the impressive 255mm, diagonal, electronic paper like screen that dominates this reader. It has a 1024 x 1280 pixel resolution, 160 ppi with 16 levels of Grey scale that delivers a crisp, clear text and picture reproduction that perfectly mimics paper, gives a near 1:1 reproduction of A4 sized documents and eBooks, plus users can make notes on screen through a Wacom penabled touch sensor input and the supplied stylus.
The Iliad Electronic Reader devices one gig memory comes via an SD card which can be extended by using SD cards with a larger capacity, these are readily available from both Amazon or eBay, and are falling rapidly in price. With the 1gb SD card installed, you are able to store in the region of 1000 books or documents and about 400/500 pictures. It employs the Freescale iMX31L processor and has available 128MB of RAM, needs either Windows Vista or XP operating system installed on your PC or laptop with at least a 800 MHz processor and 25MB of available hard drive space and a USB port which should preferably be USB 2.0.
The built in rechargeable (lithium ion) battery, which gives 600 or more page turns, takes only 5 hours to recharge from flat to full via the supplied USB cable and your powered PC. The DR1000s supports media formats for both unsecured text and DRM text, images through GIF, TIFF, PNG, JPEG and BMP formats plus the promise of future support for additional formats updated free of charge. The following languages are also fully supported at the time of writing, English, French, Dutch and German and our model came supplied with the Stylus, a USB cable and the quick start users manual.
All in all, our Irex Iliad Electronic eBook Reader review found the Iliad Electronic Reader to be a very capable device for those users who are looking for a more business like model. Features included as standard with the 1000s would help managers and field operatives transport large quantities of documents, plans and books, allow them to alter or make notes to the same documents on the fly and brings all this together to make their job far easier. What this Iliad Electronic Reader is not is just another eBook reader.
