The electric paper book has always been called the bubble noodle artifact by many people, but the joke is a joke, and how to ridicule cannot hide its significance as a learning tool. I have always wanted to buy a suitable electric paper book for myself, and my friends have also recommended the kindle, an international brand product, but many reasons have been discouraged. For example, the closed system, the general 8GB starting capacity, the wide black edge, these are the main reasons why I can't bear not to buy. Those who want to buy kindle electric paper books may not be able to buy later, and the recent news that kindle is suspected of withdrawing from the domestic market has suddenly been on the hot search, so that many people who have not had time to get on the bus even have the opportunity to make up tickets.
Kindle is gone, is our domestic goods a chance to get on the spot? As an ecological chain enterprise under Xiaomi, Ink Case has launched a lot of e-paper book products, and I recently had the opportunity to experience the INK CASE E-Paper Book MIX7 equipped with an open system, and now share with you the use of the feeling. If you use the electric paper book as a learning tool, please continue to read down, if you use the electric paper book as a means of decompression, please continue to read, because the experience brought by MIX7 and the traditional electric paper book may be so different.
About the unboxing of this product this article does not introduce too much, MIX7 has been on the market for a while, there are many unboxing stickers on the network, you can go to search for it yourself. I like the sentence in the package, "The ink is not short, and the poem book is quite long", which not only describes the elegance of reading, but also hides the name of the ink case in the verse.
First, the appearance and details of the product
One of the factors that people choose products is whether they look good or not, which is why the "appearance association" has always existed. The appearance of the product largely determines whether people will buy it, just like Apple's products have always led the trend in design, becoming the goal of friends trying to imitate and try to surpass.
The INK CASE MIX7 adopts an asymmetrical appearance, leaving a relatively large space on the side of the front panel and arranging two physical buttons. In fact, friends familiar with the kindle product line should be able to see that it is similar to oasis in appearance, but the internal aspect is more suitable for the needs of domestic users because of the design and optimization of the ink case, which is also a reference and development.
The color matching name of MIX7 is called Biting Crane Green, I deliberately searched on the Internet, and this color matching is indeed restored by God. Biting green looks more eye-catching and attractive than black-and-white competitors.
The power buttons on the fuselage are designed to be a touch of red, echoing the red feathers on the belly of the biting crane. The thinnest part of the fuselage is only 3.2mm, which is basically not much thicker than a 1 yuan coin.
In my opinion, the digital products that use the Type-C interface are more conscientious, and Type-C is now the trend of the times. Can't understand the kindle oasis 3 product is still using the Micro USB interface, do you say it is to save money or to help manufacturers clear inventory?
The mixed frame and most of the fuselage are made of metal material, and the part of the hand is a plastic back shell, and a pattern is added to improve the feel when holding. The overall texture is obviously not a grade compared to pure plastic products.
Mix7's ink screen size is 7 inches, the resolution is 1680×1264, the pixel density is 300ppi, and the display accuracy is not much different from paper books. The MIX7's screen has been etched with 10% haze, which intuitively feels like there is a frosted matte surface, and reading in strong light will not be disturbed by reflected light.
Many people use the feeling of electric paper books is stuck, slow, although they are all electronic products, but they do not have the fluency of mobile phones. The configuration of e-paper books in terms of hardware is generally very low, so low that as long as you can run customized reading software. Take the Kindle Oasis 3 as an example, the processor it uses is i. MX7D, dual-core 1GHz, it is estimated that many people have not even heard of it, and the running memory is only 512MB. Ink case MIX7 uses Rockchip's RK3566 processor, quad core 1.8GHz, running memory 2GB, fuselage storage 64GB, according to 3MB an e-book calculation can hold about 20,000 books.
Second, the use experience
1. Reading experience
The system is the soul of an electric paper book, and it is useless to have a good-looking skin bag without an interesting soul empty. Ink case MIX7 is built-in Android 11 system, compared to other electric paper books the biggest advantage is flexible and open. Supporting the installation of various Android applications is equivalent to having countless resources, and it is obviously more fun than the closed system of electric paper books.
Many e-paper books are equivalent to a reading software in themselves, and you can't use other third-party reading software. MIX7 gives users more flexible choice, it has built-in reading, WeChat reading, kindle reading, Jingdong reading and other reading software by default, which must have your habit of using, if you do not install one yourself, it will be finished. Because it supports a lot of reading software, it is almost all-over when it comes to supported book formats. MIX7 pre-installed kindle reading software, which is a spiritual continuation and inheritance of kindle e-paper books.
MIX7 supports gravity sensing, so there's no need to struggle with left or right hand, which hand is most comfortable to hold, and the interface will automatically rotate in the direction you need. At the same time, the two physical page turning keys also support automatic position switching, and there is no need to set them separately.
MIX7 supports 24 levels of cold and warm two-color temperature adjustment, which can adjust the brightness and color temperature that make the eyes comfortable according to the use environment, which is crushing for those electric paper books without backlights.
2. Audio-visual entertainment
Mix7 seems to me to be an Android tablet cloaked in the cloak of an electric paper book, and it can do what Android can do, but it is just good and bad.
THE MIX7 also takes into account that some users like to listen to books, so it has built-in Himalayas and supports connecting Bluetooth headsets on the hardware. The designers did not design the external speaker for the MIX7, and I think this design should be based on a variety of considerations. Many people are used to reading on the way to work or business trips, if there is an external speaker will definitely be used by someone, in public places to play music is actually quite a nasty behavior. The speaker will also increase the power consumption, Bluetooth headsets are becoming more and more popular, and the built-in battery, simply all the work is let it carry.
Since the MIX7 supports Bluetooth headphones, can it play music? The answer, of course, is yes. I tested that NetEase Cloud Music and QQ Music can work normally and can play music smoothly. You can also play all kinds of online music normally in the browser. Therefore, whether it is a music app or a browser, it is also possible to take the MIX7 to listen to music. A little bolder, using MIX7 to watch video is not impossible, but the effect is estimated that no one can bear it, the characteristics of the ink screen determine that it is not suitable for watching video.
3. Office chat
Ink case has reached cooperation with WPS, Baidu Library and other software, and there are heavyweight office software such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in the projects under discussion.
The MIX7 supports Bluetooth, so it is more flexible in terms of peripherals. In addition to plugging in to a Bluetooth headset to listen to books and listen to music, I also successfully connected the MIX7 to the Bluetooth keyboard.
Connecting a keyboard can significantly improve the efficiency of WPS document editing. Editing simple documents and charts with WPS, responding to emails online, and occasionally working as an emergency is fine.
The measured MIX7 can run Tencent's TIM software relatively smoothly.
WeChat can also run, brush the circle of friends is more fluent, but in the chat scene with many people, there will be obvious caton. Now Tencent software is getting bigger and bigger, the function is getting more and more bloated, even high-end mobile phones may not be able to hold well. It is not recommended to use MIX7 to chat QQ and WeChat, it is still possible to use it for emergency and early adopters.
4. Life efficiency
In addition to being used for reading, some of the applications built into mix7 can also improve the efficiency of life and facilitate daily life.
In addition to viewing dates, calendar apps can add schedules and to-dos. As the saying goes, good memorization is not as good as bad writing, some important to-do items or anniversaries in daily life can be recorded with a calendar application, and with such auxiliary functions, you are also a careful and considerate person in front of your girlfriend and family.
The built-in calculator is still relatively single in function, and can only do some simple scientific calculations. It is recommended that manufacturers add functions such as tax loan calculation, measurement conversion and exchange rate to the calculator in subsequent software upgrades, which are very practical and will be used frequently by many people.
5. Battery life
MIX7 has a built-in 2300mAh battery, although there is still a certain gap compared with the capacity of 4,500mAh at every turn of the mobile phone, but we are better at saving power. Battery life has always been one of the proud advantages of the electric paper book, and the characteristics of the ink screen determine that it will be very power-saving when it runs. In general, the endurance of electric paper books is measured in weeks.
The official data shows that the MIX7 can stand idle for 45 consecutive days after a full charge, and such a battery life is unimaginable on the phone.
Write at the end
There are many more features and functions that MIX7 can dig into, and it is limited to space and cannot be introduced one by one. As an electric paper book MIX7 boldly took a step forward, and the closed system of the electric paper book compared to the ink case MIX7, the open system is more flexible to use, users can take what they need according to their own needs. While it's not as powerful as smartphones and tablets, reading is still the mix7's strength, bringing a more immersive sense of reading.