Pocketbook Era 64 GB – The best pocket book so far

Two years ago we tested PowerBook InkPad X.Which has a large screen size of 10.3 inches. With its large and bright screen, this could be the ultimate tablet to read easily, if there wasn’t one major drawback. It was too slow. Everything took time. You had to wait several seconds for him to react to simple touch commands. This is so frustrating in the long run that the tablet is at risk of early retirement.

pocket book era

The new age is much smaller. The Kindle is larger, if you will, and has a 7-inch screen — it’s a pretty good screen indeed. With higher resolution, adjustable brightness and color temperature. The backlight can also be turned off. It’s nice when you don’t read books in complete darkness.

Yours comes in two versions. One has a 16GB capacity in silver gray and the other is a 64GB copper frame.

The extra storage is well worth the money, especially for those who download music and audiobooks as well as eBooks. You can play music as well, as well as play audiobooks, either through the built-in speaker (not recommended) or a pair of Bluetooth headphones or earbuds (better).

Monitor

The pocket book has an E Ink Carta 1200 display with a resolution of 300 dpi. This is a very good resolution for a 7-inch screen. Which has a row of four buttons on the right side. One is the power button, the two in the middle are used to scroll through books or menus, and the other is the home button that sends you to the home screen.

The screen is really good, with a very nice readability. It’s sharp enough to reproduce small fonts with natural clarity – much like what you encounter on paper, and a normal font size has finely defined fonts and nice contrast.

On-screen navigation is very similar to a tablet or mobile phone. Click, drag, drag, pinch to select, scroll, scroll, zoom in or out.

Uses

The Era tablet supports the vast majority of formats, including EPUB, and supports Dropbox, from which you store and download e-books and files. It also has a music player, calculator, browser, calendar, chess, Sudoku, and a handy and useful text-to-speech feature. There is also a not very good translator, from English to a number of languages, including Swedish.

As with the InkPad X, a USB charging cable and USB-to-minijack adapter for the headphones are included. Charging isn’t very fast, but the battery lasts about a month, so it’s not a crisis if you forget the charging cable at home.

Your device looks good, fits perfectly in the hand and has a great 7-inch screen. Once you download the application on your mobile phone and activate the tablet to read and register as a user, as well as download books and audiobooks, the user experience is good. But unfortunately it is completely flawless.

Navigation on the screen can be smooth and fine, but there is always a certain lag. For example, you cannot type on an on-screen keyboard as fast as you can on a mobile phone. When you are done typing the search word, it takes a few seconds before you see the word in the search field.

Fortunately, the e-book pages turn quickly. no doubt. But surface navigation, such as returning to the home screen, either has an immediate response, or involves two seconds of frequency before returning to the home screen. Sometimes the home screen loads twice (!). But loading audiobooks, for example, is fast.

conclusion

PocketBook Era is a practical, splash-proof tablet that can be used with almost all e-book formats. The screen is sharp and pleasant with good readability and the battery life is very good. Unfortunately, a tablet that reads well otherwise suffers from sluggish response and hesitation when the screen is pressed. The consolation may be that it’s an easy-to-use advance over the InkPad X – but the PocketBook still has a long way to go before tablets are optimally user-friendly.