Irex Iliad (pictures Inside)

[DRDR]

Hi,

you might be interested to take a look at

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisp...daysprune=&f=99

to learn more about an E-Ink device which runs on Linux with X-11 and matchbox, uses an xscale processor and seems to be binary compatible to Zaurus.

It's intended purpose is to be used as an electronic reader. It comes with viewers for PDF, XHTML, graphics, text and  APABI (to be continued with updates).

It is also a WACOM pen enabled device, which means that has a touchscreen and a WACOM pen. It can display 16 grayscales with an 768x1024 resolution.

It has integrated WIFI for a conncection to the IREX content delivery system. By using the supplied docking station it can also connect to Fast Ethernet or can appear by USB as a mass storage device to other devices.

It also has a SD and CF slot which can be used both at the same time. It also has an USB connector which can be used to plug USB memory sticks into the device.

So far we have been able to find out the following stuff about the internals of the device:

* X11 with matchbox
* able to run some apps from the Zaurus ARM utils, which leads to the impression, that it is binary compatible to the Zaurus
* USB host and client
* root access through ssh is possible when the network is up (which was initially only the case during connections to the content delivery service but which can now be brought up by viewing and interacting with a specially prepared PDF file)
* browser is minimo

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[Tom61]

Looks interesting. How fast does the display update? I've heard that E-Ink can be really slow.

Since it doesn't run QT, at the moment anyway, you're pretty much limited to console apps from the Sharp ROM. Doesn't Cacko run X11? If so, that would be the best place to snag apps for this, that and Debian ARM.

[DRDR]

Looks interesting. How fast does the display update? I've heard that E-Ink can be really slow.

Since it doesn't run QT, at the moment anyway, you're pretty much limited to console apps from the Sharp ROM. Doesn't Cacko run X11? If so, that would be the best place to snag apps for this, that and Debian ARM.
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It updates rather slow, depending on refresh modr ftom 500ms to 1s. But there are als fast refreshs of only parts of the screen possible (e.g status display or note taking with pen).

[Da_Blitz]

sounds like it has limited bandwidth to the screen not that the screen is slow. very intresting little device

i am waiting for E-ink tatoos

[zeigerpuppy]

sounds like it has limited bandwidth to the screen not that the screen is slow. very intresting little device

i am waiting for E-ink tatoos
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This device has really similar specs to the zaurus but irex seems to have made a major design flaw as it apparently cannot suspend.  Otherwise this would be a very good device for reading and amending pdfs.