Can it be an ebook reader? How's the sound and battery life? In response to M.Diaz, is the screen grainy, too bright, crisp, blurry, ect?
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Battery life for the Archos 7 as a .pdf viewer is at least 7 hours with some time still left on the battery. I use it all day while I am teaching at school. At this writing the unit cannot be used as an ebook per se. However, there is software available to convert the ebook to .jpeg and view as a picture. This works pretty well but you have the extra step of converting. Archos should include an ebook reader for the Archos. I hope that someone will make a stand alone program that will work. Remember DRM protected ebooks like those used on ebook readers like the kindle will not work, but there is a ton of content for free available in .pdf format.
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Hi Melody, I bought this last year and it was total garbage. The battery, screen, and overall performance is aweful. It is very cheap and was a total waste of money. My advice as a consumer, if uou want to read kundle books, buy a kindle. I actually had to buy a used one and I wish that I had done so from the beginning. I hope this helps.
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Dear Michelle, I finally got my Nook for Christmas. Not without some extra taxes I had to pay in the border, but anyway, finally here. I think that for reading novels in Catalan it's perfect really. The contrast of the screen depends much on the light you put in, but if the light is totally white, the constrast is very good!!! I'm pretty happy with the Nook, even if I cannot purchase directly any book because I don't have US billing address. The only little problem I found when reading for long time, is that because of the outside plastic it gets stuck on the hand and I have to change the position of reading every 15-20 minuts. I suppose once I get the cover I asked, I could handle in another way and the problem won't come back. One very bad experience!! I purchased the cover on Barnes&Noble and because is going to Europe you cannot track it. The point is that after more than one month it has not arrived yet!! But the worse is that the 2 times I send a mail to B&N they automatically resent me a mail forwarding me to the help system!!! I finally sent another e-mail to the company external of B&N that produces the covers for them and I didn't get any answer yet!! So I finally purchased it on Amazon. By the way I also bought a Kindle and it's supposed to arrive in a couple days. I bought it for the textbooks for my studies. Give me some feedback!!! Take care. Xavi
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Personally I think it's great, the screen is very large, excellent resolution, plus I have a fast internet connection, I'm very satisfied with it. Hopes this helps you.
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Maybe you got too many apps open Boo. My 4G is pretty quick. Not my iPad quick, but fast enough. That said, I only use it for playing music off a dock these days. Even if I trade it in, it's still going to cost me $170. Maybe for people who actually play lots of games it's worth upgrading. Looks like music and movie based users won't find it worthwhile.
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Since I bought this tablet to display text only (song charts) it looks fine to me. My wife used it for the internet once and said it looked very good. What I know for sure is my internal speakers don't work and never did. I don't need them, but I'm sure would be important to other people. Also, the power input jack is VERY poorly designed. Overall the tablet is not high quality, but is fairly priced. If you want better quality, you should consider paying more for another brand. Hope this helped.
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Dear Xavi,Thank you for your reply. Since my last message I have purchased the Kindle 3 as I was concerned about the difficulty of buying and downloading books within the UK. I am so far very happy with the Kindle although I am very interested in what you think of the Nook. I have relatives in the US who are considering buying an e-reader and so I would love to know what your opinion is. If you get the chance to give me some feedback once you've used it that would be great!Thank you.Sincerely,Michelle
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Actually, I stopped using it about three months after I bought it. The system ran too slow for me, so I spent a lot of time waiting for pages to load. It also had a habit of locking up, so I'd have to unplug it and plug it back in to restart. It has a poorer experience rating than a Motorola Droid X2, in my opinion. Though; not as glitchy as the X2, it's close enough not to be pleased. That coupled with it not being snappy and the fact you can't block ads and redirects makes an irritating experience. Mind you, this is based on my experience with this device approximately 10-12ft away from the a/b/g/n router. Also, I should add that a friend of mine bought one as well and did not have the same functionality. She couldn't install adobe Flash and therefore couldn't play .flv files. In my opinion, these things need to go back to R&D. Then upgrade all the components and re-release it. If it were as snappy as and iPad Gen1 or Samsung Galaxy S3 and charged $200-250, it would be worth it. Hope this helps..
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install aptoide market and you should be able to find an app for reading e-pub books. and you should know that this device is really laggy, as long as you stick to general use you should be fine, don't even try to use flash player in the browser. it does not have the horsepower for it, and the best browser for this tab is at m.opera.com get the mobile phone version of the browser not the mobile tab version because it cannot handle flash. You can also use opera mini and it is a bit faster but it is not as compatible with most websites, avoid the stock browser at all cost.
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ya Barbara you keep in touch with me and we will get it figured out. I did go to the Amazon app store and downloaded it and it does not work out of sinkt is not the discription I would give the quality, it is a stable picture with no movement then the sound works great...I am going to try the brandy even though it looks like I as well as others have asked her to be more elaborate she never gets back to us..
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I see you are a very active member an a entusiast user of the Sony tablet. I thank your opinion. I plan to read a lot, watch movies on my trips and listen to some music. The price for 32 GB is high and was planning to save some money. But if you recommend that is not a practical option, I guess I must pay for the extra internal memory.
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The laptop isn't what I originally expected, I mean it works but it reminds me more of a big tablet with a keyboard. There are times where it can take a while to load and it's difficult to copy and paste things. I guess I'm trying to say what are you going to use it for. If the child is going to use a flashdrive to listen to music or watch movies on there, it ca work. But I worry that researching and doing hw may not be the best of things to use it for, hope I could help ^_^
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the screen isn't gorilla glass so it isn't the best quality available, if you meant the resolution which is 4.3-inch TFT LCD touchscreen with 480 x 854 (FWVGA) pixel resolution and 16 million colors compared to the current ipod touch's 1136-by-640-pixel resolution at 326 pixels per inch and you can see the difference but being over 3 years old the 43 with only froyo android 2.2 is showing it's age. I got mine here on amazon for 7 bucks to use as an ereader that actually fits in a pocket for dr visits.... if you take into account it's limitations and can find at a MUCH cheaper price it might play a few games ok but it might be hard to find many compatible with the froyo
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I've updated the firmware to the latest version (something of a comedy of errors), and I find that it just doesn't handle PDF files very well. The second problem can be sidestepped if you can reformat your PDF documents with larger margins. Not ideal, I know.I haven't encountered the first problem yet. Updating the firmware may be a solution for you on that. (I didn't try any PDF files until after updating.)
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Hi, I am sorry to tell you that I do no own this tablet any more. Why? because it is no good.If you didn´t buy yet, don´t buy it.Jucimar
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There is a free kindle app foe the iPad but I have not used it. I have had a kindle for a lot longer than the iPad. I can share what a friend told me, though. She finds the iPad screen too bright to read comfortably, and learned the hard way not to read at bedtime. She says it makes her eyes hurt. I am happy with my old kindle, so can't offer you experience firsthand.
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Almost every review I've seen on the Fire says the touchscreen has problems with responsiveness. I did some playing around with both units at a Target and found the same problem with the touchscreen. The software seemed decent on both. If you're going to watch movies/videos the nook's display seemed closer to an HD experience, but neither was bad. Amazon's obviously got a much broader and richer content collection "in the cloud" than B&N;, but if the books you need are available for the Nook, it seems much smoother and more responsive.