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ONYX BOOX Vasco da Gama 3E Ink Carta with Moon Light+SNOW Field functionAndroid 4.4 platformWi-Fi wireless interfaceand more...
ONYX BOOX Vasco da Gama 3
ONYX BOOX Vasco da Gama 3 is a device for reading electronic books with the latest "electronic paper" E Ink Carta screen and built-in MOON light+ system with color temperature control and the SNOW Field function. The reader has outstanding technical specifications: a high-performance 4-core processor, 512 MB of RAM and 8 GB of internal memory. The Android operating system thanks to its rich set of programs allows you to open text files of almost every format and to configure settings of the text for more comfortable reading. In addition, the device supports network libraries. Connecting to the Internet via Wi-Fi, you can get access to hundreds of thousands of free books with a convenient search by title, author, genre or series.
What is E Ink Carta
E Ink Carta is the newest development of E Ink Company. This is a display made on the "electronic paper" technology. Reading on such a screen is as comfortable as on ordinary paper. Compared to previous generations of ePaper, this screen has a lighter base and higher contrast.
What is SNOW Field?
SNOW Field is an operating mode of the screen, allowing to reduce the number of artifacts on the screen within partial refresh. If this function is on, full refresh of the screen is not needed.
Capacitive Multi-touch screen
The 6" E Ink Carta display has a lighter base and higher contrast than any other scrrens of this type. It makes the text readable in bright sunlight and has a high rate of a screen refresh. The absence of shimmering light and the principle of image formation with the E Ink method makes reading comfortable for your eyes. A capacitive Multi-touch screen enables easy controlling while reading a document: scrolling, zooming, making notes in the text and using additional functions.
Screen frontlight
The MOON Light+ technology enables one to use the device in the dark or under poor lighting conditions. When this function is in use, soft luminescence of the screen comfortable for reading in dark rooms is being generated. It also has a color temperature control.
What is MOON Light+?
The latest researches have shown that blue light prevents the production of melatonin (daily rhythms regulator), which is necessary for a person to sleep. Therefore, after reading on a glowing screen of an ordinary tablet or smartphone, it is often difficult to fall asleep.
MOON Light + allows you to adjust the brightness of cold and warm LED lights independently, choosing at will white light for reading during the daytime, and more yellow for reading before sleeping.
High performance
A quad-core processor with 1,2 GHz clock rate and 512 MB of RAM ensures comfortable work with difficult documents. And 8 GB of nonvolatile memory and a microSD-slot supporting memory cards up to 32 GB allows the user to store a whole library.
Format support
The BOOX software allows the user to open files of various text and graphic formats. When reading you can change font style and size, disposition of pages, insert bookmarks, add your own fonts and zoom documents at your will.
Built-in dictionaries
ONYX BOOX Vasco da Gama 3 has pre-installed English-Russian and Russian-English dictionaries. Want to translate an unknown word? Just touch it!
Reprogramming option
ONYX BOOX Vasco da Gama 3 allows the user to write personal software using the potentials of the Android 4.4 platform.
Continuous work
Low power consumption of E-Ink displays and battery capacity of 3000 mAh provides long-term autonomous work.
Language support
The BOOX allows the user to read documents in different world languages. Amongst them there are such languages as Russian, English, German, French, Spanish, Arabic, Swedish, Chinese, Japanese and many others.
ONYX BOOX Vasco da Gama 3 is a device for reading electronic books with the latest "electronic paper" E Ink Carta screen and built-in MOON light+ system with color temperature control and the SNOW Field function. The reader has outstanding technical specifications: a high-performance 4-core processor, 512 MB of RAM and 8 GB of internal memory. The Android operating system thanks to its rich set of programs allows you to open text files of almost every format and to configure settings of the text for more comfortable reading. In addition, the device supports network libraries. Connecting to the Internet via Wi-Fi, you can get access to hundreds of thousands of free books with a convenient search by title, author, genre or series.
| Display | 6", E Ink Carta, 16 levels of grey, contrast ratio 14:1, 758 × 1024 dots, capacitive Multi-touch screen and the SNOW Field function |
| Front light | MOON Light+ |
| Processor | 4-core, 1,2 GHz |
| RAM | 512 MB |
| Internal memory | 8 GB |
| Expansion slot | For micro SD/microSDHC cards |
| USB interface | USB 2.0 |
| Supported file formats | Text: TXT, HTML, RTF, FB2, FB2.zip, MOBI, CHM, PDB, DOC, DOCX, PRC, EPUB Graphic: JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP Others: PDF, DjVu |
| Wireless interface | Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g/n |
| Battery | Li-on 3000 mAh |
| Operating system | Android 4.4 |
| Size | 170 × 117 × 8,7 mm |
| Color | Black |
| Weight | 182 gr |
| Kit | ONYX BOOX Vasco da Gama 3 eReader User's manual USB cable European power adapter as a gift 220 V Warranty card |
| Warranty period | 1 year |
Note: Since a part of the Flash memory size is system software, the portion available to the user is less than the total size of the memory chip.
The device is designed primarily for reading electronic books, but has some additional features which are defined by the installed software. For example, the current firmware has functions such as calendar, dictionary, access to the Internet, and others.
The device is freely reprogrammable on request of the user who can install, delete and create programs.
The device has a battery that provides long, autonomous usage.
User's manual
System software update
Revisions
- Updated version of Alreader X Pro.
- Fixed a bug in the operation of the PUSH service and Wi-Fi Transfer.
- Removed battery percentage indicator from the system.
- Fixed interface translation.
- Fixed other known bugs.
Setup
- Download the update.upx firmware file to your desktop PC.
- Charge the device battery to at least 50%.
- Connect the e-book to your computer with a USB cable.
- Copy the update.upx file to the root directory of the device's internal memory, that is, simply to the ONYX disk, as it is defined in the system, next to other folders and files.
- Go to Settings > System Updates > Check for Updates in Memory.
- There will be a question about confirming the desire to update the system. Click "Update".
- The firmware will start. Lasts about 8 minutes.
- Wait for the user interface to load.
- After installing the firmware, you need to calibrate the battery. Before calibrating, you must reset the device to factory settings (Settings> Right arrow (top right of the screen)> Reset to factory settings). During the reset process, uncheck the "Clear internal memory" box, otherwise all files will be deleted. The procedure consists of four stages:
- Write down the books that you will read soon.
- Charge the book to the maximum without removing it from the charge until the orange LED turns off.
- After that, disconnect from charging and use the device in normal mode until the battery is completely discharged (the cable icon appears with a request to charge), regardless of the rate of battery discharge. In the process of discharging, the reader cannot be connected to a computer or charger. Also, before the process is complete, you cannot do a factory reset.
- Then recharge the book with continuous charge up to 100 percent.
Answers to questions
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