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Pandigital Novel 7 Color
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Pandigital, known for their digital photo frames and scanners, has decided to jump into the ereader fray with the Pandigital Novel, a 7-inch multipurpose ereader with an LCD touchscreen, Wi-Fi, and an Android operating system.
The Pandigital Novel is designed to be ereaders and multimedia devices capable of browsing the web, playing music, sending email, and displaying videos and images on their 800 x 600 resolution screens.
It also comes with a built-in email application, web browser, alarm clock, calendar, games, and dictionary.
There's a 2-in-1 memory card slot for SD and MMC cards up to 32GB, and it comes with 1GB internal memory. There's an orientation sensor, mini USB port, stereo speakers, headphone jack, and a battery that lasts up to six hours in reading mode.
Now that Pandigital has opened up the Pandigital Novel to install apps, it is much more versatile and can do all kinds of things. There's no app market for the Novel, but there is a hack to add it. Or you can install other app markets on it such as SlideMe, if you're not into hacking.
The Novel's ebook reader offers some good features but lacks any customizing options, no way to set margins, change font type, or customize font or background color. Hyperlinks in ebooks don't work. The brightness can only be adjusted in the main settings menu and tends to reset sporadically.
Overall, reading is what you'd expect with an LCD screen. Works good indoors but not so good outdoors. Being able to dim the brightness helps with the glittery quality of the screen..
Wi-Fi is easy to set up. It scans for networks and then you need to enter the password the first time. The internet automatically connects when you tap the browser and when you turn the device on. Or you can set it to stay off if you want to save on battery life.
The browser has a menu that brings up bookmarks, there's a forward and back button, refresh, search, and a settings menu. There are settings options for layout, text size, landscape mode, Javascript, cookies, privacy settings, and others.
The browser can open in multiple windows but there are no tabs. There's also a recent history list given for each site visited by tapping the url.
The Pandigital Novel supports MPEG4 video format.
The picture quality is pretty good for such a small screen. The device also comes with a little stand that works well for watching videos and slideshows in landscape orientation.
Given Pandigital's background, it's no surprise that the Novel also doubles as a photo frame/viewer. It supports JPEG, PNG, GIF, and BMP image files.
There's a slideshow feature with a number of different settings for speed adjustment, playlists, and adding music.
There's a built-in audio player that supports MP3, WMA, and AAC formats. Two speakers and a headphone jack are located on the bottom edge of the device. The volume buttons are on the right side. The speakers sound about as good as you'd expect—they get the job done and they are louder than most ereaders.
Audio functions include setting playlists, shuffle, and repeat. Sort by title or artist. Minimize the audio menu to keep listening while doing other tasks.
The Pandigital Novel is an ereader combined with an Android tablet. While it isn't particularly proficient at either, for the price it's enough to attract a wide audience.
Overall, the white Pandigital Novel is a good budget 7" Android tablet and ereader combination if you don't want to spend the money on something like the Nook Color or Samsung Galaxy Tab. There are a lot of options to choose from nowadays, so it's important to figure out exactly what features in a color ereader are most important to you.
Specifications:
7-inch Digital TFT LCD touchscreen.
800 x 600 pixel resolution.
Android 2.0 operating system.
ARM processor.
Supports PDF, CSV, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, HTML, MP3, AAC, WAV, JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, MPEG4.
1 GB internal memory, SD Card / MMC Card uoto 32 GB.
Built-in web browser, calendar, dictionary, email, music and video players.
Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n.
Dimensions: 5.5" x 7.5" x .5".
Weight: 19 ounces.
Battery: 6-7 hours for reading.
Audio: 2.5mm headphone jack, speakers.