![]() I thought this was supposed to be the new and improved version of Foxconn’s 7″ tablet. Perhaps Pocketbook’s UI designer suffered a blow to the head and they let him keep the job out of sympathy. But when the IQ came down the pipeline, no one thought to double check his work. My guess is that their genius user interface designer is color blind, and no one noticed when he was hired to work on Pocketbook’s previous ereaders (they all had grayscale screens). What’s worse is that the 8 default icons are grayscale. Pocketbook apparently thought it was a good idea to have a yellow to blue fade running left to right as the wallpaper. The general layout is okay, but I have seen better color palettes in the abstract artwork of college students. The Home screen on the Pocketbook IQ has the ugliest color scheme I have ever seen on a device. It’s based on a 7″ LCD screen and it has a resistive touchscreen, 2GB Flash, Wifi, a SD card slot, accelerometer, and a custom Home screen designed by Pocketbook. The IQ is basically the same hardware as the Cruz Reader and the white Pandigital Novel. There are a couple short videos mixed in.įirst, a little background on the hardware. ![]() ![]() I thought the firmware update was excellent opportunity to try the IQ and tell you what I think. I had played with it a couple times, but I was busy with other devices and I was going to get to it eventually. I got the IQ on Tuesday, and it had been sitting on my desk. Last night Pocketbook uploaded a new firmware update for the Pocketbook IQ. ![]()
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