Description
Main specifications:
- 8.1-inch (21 cm) electronic paper display, area for displaying content is 124x165mm
- resolution of 768x1024 pixels, 160 dpi
- 16 levels of grayscale
- USB connector for external storage
- CompactFlash Type II slot for memory extension or other applications
- MultiMediaCard slot for MMC memory cards
- 3.5 mm stereo audio jack for a headset
- WiFi 802.11g wireless LAN
- 10/100 Mbit/s wired LAN
- 390 grams (14 oz) weight
- 400 MHz Intel XScale processor
- 64 MB RAM
- 256 MB internal flash memory, 128 for user, 128 for system
- Linux-based operating system, 2.4 kernel
- SDK provided, so functionality is easily extended
It measures 155 × 216 × 16 mm (width × height × depth), the size of an A5 document, or roughly a 6"×9" steno notebook. The display used is an active matrix electrophoretic display, which uses E Ink Vizplex Imaging Film manufactured by E Ink Corporation. Underneath the E Ink screen is a digitizing tablet by Wacom which requires a stylus for input. When it was introduced, the Iliad had largest screen size of existing e-paper products, but the newer iRex Digital Reader 1000's 10.2-inch (26 cm) display is the largest sold as of early 2011.
The iLiad can display document files in several formats, including PDF, Mobipocket, XHTML and plain text. It can also display JPEG, BMP and PNG images, but not in color. As of May 3, 2007 Mobipocket is supported, making the mobipocket digital rights management (DRM) content available on this platform. iRex's product page for the iLiad states that "Support for additional E-book formats will become available over the coming months."
Through its wireless service, iDS, the iLiad can also directly download content. Les Echos, a French financial newspaper, is distributed this way, as is Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. Users can connect to their computer over a wireless network to sync new data onto the iLiad's internal memory or an inserted MMC, SD, or CF card.
The distributor of the iLiad is iRex Technologies, a Philips spin-off company. It was initially advertised in December 2005, to be launched in April 2006, but was delayed until July, when it started to be sold as a beta product. It was released to the general public near the end of July, and since then has undergone considerable software revisions.
Its list price in Europe is €649, and in US $699, however it is no longer available in North America due to FCC regulation non-compliance.
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