Meebook deliberate to launch the brand new M6C Shade e-reader earlier this Spring. Nonetheless, there have been a number of element shortages, resembling Kaleido 3 e-paper shows, processors, and batteries. The principle perpetrator was Kobo, which bought almost two million items for the most recent technology e-readers. Everybody needed to wait till E INK and their suppliers manufactured extra stuff. The smaller firms are at all times final on the dinner desk, and it appears to be like like Meebook has lastly launched the fabled M6C Shade e-reader on Amazon for $199.
The Mebook M6C is a devoted e-book reader with no WACOM display screen or note-taking performance. It includes a 6-inch E INK Kaleido 3-color e-paper show with a black-and-white decision 1448X1072 and 300 PPI. The colour decision is 536 × 724 with 150 PPI, and it might show 4096 completely different colours. The physique coloration is a stunning tender white on the back and front plating. The software program slider bar can management a front-lit show and coloration temperature system with 24 LED lights.
Beneath the hood is a quad-core 1.8 GHz processor, 3GB of RAM and 32GB of inner storage, which ought to be sufficient to accommodate over 5,000 ebooks. For those who want extra storage, there’s an SD card that’s able to accommodating an extra 1TB of storage. It has Bluetooth 5.1 for connecting wi-fi headphones or earbuds to take heed to audiobooks, podcasts or music. USB-C is used to cost the gadget and switch knowledge. WIFI permits you to entry the web. The battery is 2200mAh, which ought to be appropriate for a month of studying; its dimensions are 5.02 x 3.6 x 0.25 inches, weighing 90 Grams.
The Mebook M6C has Google Android 11 as the first working system. The UI is closely personalized with a vivid and bubbly person interface, making it straightforward to make use of your fingers to work together with all of the performance. If it’s worthwhile to set up apps, it has Google Play preinstalled. Meebook is nice like this, and all their merchandise have Google Play. Nonetheless, Android 11 is a bit dated; plenty of their opponents are operating Android 12, and a few are utilizing Android 13, which supplies higher long-term app assist, to not point out further safety.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the previous fifteen years. Newspapers and web sites such because the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Put up and the New York Instances have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.