Pocketbook 360
Pocketbook 360 Degree eReader - $199.00 US
Both PocketBook™ models have unique firmware, allowing great degree of customization and entertainment: games, themes, news, notes and dictionaries.
Western Graphics Inc, Ukrainian producer of PocketBook™ e-book readers appointed its official partner in the United States: Brain Plaza International, a New York based company, specializing in marketing East European brands, will be importing and distributing PocketBook™ in the US.
PocketBook 360 in ivory PocketBook 301+ and PocketBook 360°are two models, available for sale at www.PocketBookReader.com.
PocketBook 301+ is a classic e-reader with 6” Vizplex display, 512 Mb of internal memory, expandable to 32 Gbs with SD memory cards. It runs on Linux and supports practically all existing e-book formats (including epub, fb2 and prc) plus mp-3 music playback. Price at company’s website: $275.
PocketBook 360°, a new PB model, features 5” display with G-sensor, allowing automatic orientation of pages in portrait or landscape mode. PB360 comes in black and ivory colors and has most interesting design with hard protective cover that no other readers can boast with. It will set you back $239.99.
Both PocketBook™ models have unique firmware, allowing great degree of customization and entertainment: games, themes, news, notes and dictionaries.
PocketBooks’ support of all languages and text encodings from the box (including right to left, characters, Cyrillic, etc) could be very appealing for non-only-English readers in such linguistically diverse market as the USA.
Western Graphics Inc, Ukrainian producer of PocketBook™ e-book readers appointed its official partner in the United States: Brain Plaza International, a New York based company, specializing in marketing East European brands, will be importing and distributing PocketBook™ in the US.
PocketBook 360 in ivory PocketBook 301+ and PocketBook 360°are two models, available for sale at www.PocketBookReader.com.
PocketBook 301+ is a classic e-reader with 6” Vizplex display, 512 Mb of internal memory, expandable to 32 Gbs with SD memory cards. It runs on Linux and supports practically all existing e-book formats (including epub, fb2 and prc) plus mp-3 music playback. Price at company’s website: $275.
PocketBook 360°, a new PB model, features 5” display with G-sensor, allowing automatic orientation of pages in portrait or landscape mode. PB360 comes in black and ivory colors and has most interesting design with hard protective cover that no other readers can boast with. It will set you back $239.99.
Both PocketBook™ models have unique firmware, allowing great degree of customization and entertainment: games, themes, news, notes and dictionaries.
PocketBooks’ support of all languages and text encodings from the box (including right to left, characters, Cyrillic, etc) could be very appealing for non-only-English readers in such linguistically diverse market as the USA.
Pocketbook 360 eReader Review Summary
Guest review from Kacir, a Mobile Read forum member, see the full article on the Pocketbook 360 review page.
Not many people outside Ukraine & Russia have seen the PocketBook 360° reader yet, but the PocketBook 301, the 6 inch older brother and the PocketBook 360° itself, are already well established devices. In December 2009, Pocketbook will launch it's North American marketing campaign to sell both devices on this side of the Atlantic.
The PocketBook 306 hardware is manufactured by Netronix and the hardware is almost identical to quite a few other readers such as the Bookeen Cybook Opus, as a comparison.
The design of the case and layout of the controls the PB360 was produced exclusively for the PocketBook company and is available in black or ivory color. I have purchased the ivory model and I was blown away with the quality, contrast and sharpness of its 5 inch display and with overall feel of the device in my hand.
Thanks to the excellent firmware and the Epson display controller, the page-turn is very fast and the device feels very responsive. The flash when the e-ink display briefly inverts during page turn is still here, but is much less noticeable than with older e-ink devices.
You can hold PB360 in four positions with controls to the left, right, top or bottom – hence the name PocketBook 360°. The display is flipped either manually or by means of built-in G-sensor. The buttons are quite stiff, and especially the two large buttons produce an audible click when pressed but I can live with that. The user-replaceable battery lasts for weeks of reading on one charge.
The FBReader – the main book reading application can be customized to your liking. You can set the font type, font size, margins and line spacing.You can set all those things in “real time” from within the FBReader. You can assign any function to any of of the eight buttons. Yes, even the on/off button is user configurable.
If you looking for a small portable device with an excellent display, nice protective lid that does not add bulk to the device and with the widest range of supported formats, languages and configurable options, have a look at the PocketBook 360°. I purchased PocketBook 360° after a very careful and detailed study of all available devices and I am very happy with my decision
Not many people outside Ukraine & Russia have seen the PocketBook 360° reader yet, but the PocketBook 301, the 6 inch older brother and the PocketBook 360° itself, are already well established devices. In December 2009, Pocketbook will launch it's North American marketing campaign to sell both devices on this side of the Atlantic.
The PocketBook 306 hardware is manufactured by Netronix and the hardware is almost identical to quite a few other readers such as the Bookeen Cybook Opus, as a comparison.
The design of the case and layout of the controls the PB360 was produced exclusively for the PocketBook company and is available in black or ivory color. I have purchased the ivory model and I was blown away with the quality, contrast and sharpness of its 5 inch display and with overall feel of the device in my hand.
Thanks to the excellent firmware and the Epson display controller, the page-turn is very fast and the device feels very responsive. The flash when the e-ink display briefly inverts during page turn is still here, but is much less noticeable than with older e-ink devices.
You can hold PB360 in four positions with controls to the left, right, top or bottom – hence the name PocketBook 360°. The display is flipped either manually or by means of built-in G-sensor. The buttons are quite stiff, and especially the two large buttons produce an audible click when pressed but I can live with that. The user-replaceable battery lasts for weeks of reading on one charge.
The FBReader – the main book reading application can be customized to your liking. You can set the font type, font size, margins and line spacing.You can set all those things in “real time” from within the FBReader. You can assign any function to any of of the eight buttons. Yes, even the on/off button is user configurable.
If you looking for a small portable device with an excellent display, nice protective lid that does not add bulk to the device and with the widest range of supported formats, languages and configurable options, have a look at the PocketBook 360°. I purchased PocketBook 360° after a very careful and detailed study of all available devices and I am very happy with my decision
Technical Specifications
Display
5" E Ink® Vizplex
G-sensor/Accelerometer built-in
CPU
Samsung® S3C2440 AL-40 400MHz
Operating system Linux
E-Book formats
FB2, FB2.zip, TXT, PDF, RTF, HTML, PRC, CHM, DJVU, DOC, EPUB, TCR
Image formats
JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF Additional Software
RSS-News, Calendar, Notes, Sudoku, Games
Connectivity Mini USB
Memory
RAM 64 Mb
Internal 512Mb
User-accessible 466Mb
Memory slot
microSD, microSDHC card
Battery
Li-Polymer (1000 mAh) Size with cover
4.6” x 5.5” x 0.47”
118 x 140 x 12 mm
Size without cover
4.6” x 5.5” x 0.39”
118 x 140 x 10 mm
Weight 5.3 ounces / g
Color Ivory, Black
5" E Ink® Vizplex
G-sensor/Accelerometer built-in
CPU
Samsung® S3C2440 AL-40 400MHz
Operating system Linux
E-Book formats
FB2, FB2.zip, TXT, PDF, RTF, HTML, PRC, CHM, DJVU, DOC, EPUB, TCR
Image formats
JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF Additional Software
RSS-News, Calendar, Notes, Sudoku, Games
Connectivity Mini USB
Memory
RAM 64 Mb
Internal 512Mb
User-accessible 466Mb
Memory slot
microSD, microSDHC card
Battery
Li-Polymer (1000 mAh) Size with cover
4.6” x 5.5” x 0.47”
118 x 140 x 12 mm
Size without cover
4.6” x 5.5” x 0.39”
118 x 140 x 10 mm
Weight 5.3 ounces / g
Color Ivory, Black