Irex Releases Public Beta of DR1000S 2.0 Software no comments
Irex has just announced the release of a Beta version of the promised software update for the DR1000S ereader.
Some of the changes:
- Completely new DR800-style GUI, including new Menu
- Many performance improvements making the GUI much more responsive
- Minor improvements to Power Management have been made
- DR800-style views (Books, News, Images, Personal Documents) in Content Browser in addition to “SD Card” folder browsing
- ‘Recently Added’ view in Content Browser
- Search in Library (to locate a file) based on metadata
- Documents are shown with their Title and Author in the Content Browser (instead of filename), except in the “SD Card” folder view
- A dedicated Notepad Application which adds the possibility to insert pages and rename the Note. This replaces the old Templates.
- Adobe RMSDK 9.1 EPUB and PDF rendering engine, including B&N EPUB support and PDF reflow
- Selection zoom in PDF
- Scribble (note taking) on top of PDF documents
- Switch between 4 open documents using tabs on the side of the screen
- Support for opening password-protected PDF documents
- GUI localized in English, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Greek
- Automatic indexing of title, author and thumbnail when a file is added to the device
You can read more on the Irex blog. Hopefully this will mean that we will soon also see the promised update for the DR800SG ereader.
Firmware Update for the DR800SG to Follow?
Irex has said that it will have a firmware update for the DR800SG ereader ready this month as well. Some of the improvements are said to be:
Note taking application1 PDF document zoom and scribble functions1 “Go to page” menu function Faster 3G connection setup time² Barnes & Noble EPUB file support Automatic indexing of title, author and thumbnail when a file is added to the device Ability to import Settings and Accounts information (MYIREX, Adobe) from MYIREX sign-up webpage on PC “View Book Information” menu function that shows file details for PDF and EPUB
I would also like to see Irex add a dictionary, highlighting and folder support.
I’ve been using the DR800SG ereader for over a month now, but until Irex updates the firmware I really can’t add too much to what I’ve said about this ereader already. At $400 the DR800SG is very light on features – hopefully Irex will remedy this at least to some extent soon.
The DR800SG does have the best looking e-ink screen I’ve yet seen, and this is why I’ve decided to keep this ereader rather than returning it as I expected I would be doing when I first received it. I love reading books on the DR800, though at the price it is a bit of a luxury.
