Overview of e-books Lexand LT-227

Scope of supply:

    Lexand LT-117
    Charger
    USB-cable
    Headphones
    Cover
    Quick Start Guide
    Warranty Card
Introduction
At the beginning of July 2012 Information Technology Laboratory announced in Russia Lexand new line of readers, which includes two models: LT-127 and LT-227. The fundamental difference between them - the presence of the Android operating system, and increased CPU clock speed in the latter. The remaining approximately the same characteristics: a 7-inch screen with a resolution of 800x480 pixels, and the chipset RockChip 4GB of internal memory.
Today, the review will talk about the older model - Lexand LT-227. Its cost is less than 4000 rubles.The design, size, controls 

Appearance hardly stands out among the masses of other electronic "book readers": rectangular case with a slightly smoother edges, «soft-touch» - covering of the front panel and the rear surface (a velvety material, pleasant to the touch). However, a little play of rear cover, which caused drawing (a stack of books go up) and relief curved strips of the upper-left corner to bottom left. According to Kant is a small groove, designed probably to keep the cover.

Build a good, even when the unit is not a strong twisting crunches and creaks. Dimensions - 180x125x9.5 mm, weight 300 grams.The manufacturer, in my opinion, very properly decided the issue with the placement of controls. For example, if you are right handed, then the thumb just rests on the button "forward" / "back", but if you're left-handed, you should turn the "book", and the left thumb and take a position close to the keys turning pages. For auto-rotation of the text do not worry - the device is built-in accelerometer.On the front panel has two mechanical buttons "Back" and "home." All of them are slightly recessed into the case, have a soft touch, a little loud enough speed and the characteristic "click."The power button is located right on the top. It extends slightly above the body. The remaining elements on the right: reset button, power jack, a standard 3.5 mm audio jack for headphones, a slot for memory cards microSD, miniUSB-connector and a microphone.
Display
The phone has a display 7-inch, 800x480 pixels, the pixel density of 133 dpi. Aspect ratio - 16:9, and the physical size of the screen - 155h87 mm. The matrix is ​​made of TFT-LCD technology and is capable of displaying 65,000 shades of color. The touch layer - the resistance, the sensitivity is weak, it is necessary to press the screen with force. It is best to equip the stylus (it is, unfortunately, is not supplied). The surface is covered by a translucent frosted plastic, so the light or the sun-glare display little, if slightly faded (for the reader, I think it is not critical).Viewing angles are small: the slope itself and from itself (in the vertical orientation of the gadget), the picture loses contrast and brightness when you turn left - inverted colors right - greatly decreases the contrast. In general, a typical screen for such devices: no better, nor worse than others.In the settings put up the brightness, enable or disable auto-rotation, while Auto is selected the screen (from 15 seconds to 30 minutes).
Battery
In the LT-227 is installed removable lithium-polymer (Li-Pol) battery capacity 2500 mAh, 3.7 V. The manufacturer, unfortunately, does not specify the time of the reader in different modes.By experimenting we found out that when using Lexand LT-227 read-only books (at maximum brightness the screen), the battery was discharged four and a half hours. At minimum brightness - about six or seven hours. A full battery charge lasts for three hours, if the film is running at resolutions up to 720p. On average, the device is "live" for about five hours: the brightness on the 2nd level, an hour listening to music, a couple of short clips and a few minutes' yuzanii "menu.
Processor, memory, memory card
The device has a RK2818 chipset on board a Chinese company RockChip and processor, running at a clock frequency of 700 MHz (although, according to the specifications, the maximum frequency - 640 MHz). For the graphical part of the accelerator meets Android PixelFlinger 1.3 with support for OpenGL ES-CM 1.0.Speed ​​interface leaves much to be desired menu crawls with "brakes", and scroll through the tabs turn into flour. Toys go, but only very primitive, even «Angry Birds». However, for the money they ask for the LT-227, no one promised "a fairy tale."The device has 256 MB of RAM (60 MB free) and 4GB (available - 2.53 GB) Flash-memory. Installation of microSD-cards up to 32GB. Average speed record on the internal memory of 6 MB / s.
The operating system and shell
In contrast, younger model LT-127, an older LT-227 runs on Google Android operating system version 2.2.1. For e-books are not particularly basically have a fresh version of the OS, most importantly - have the ability to install any practical application for reading books, files are stored in different formats.To unlock the screen should display tapnut at one time or press the button on the reader. Next, run your finger over the strip on the screen from left to right (standard system unlocked Android 2.x).The desktop is one, and there are different elements. For example, the top displays the weather and times below are two tabs ("Library" and "History"), is even lower - will launch a text file in the form of books. Under them - quick launch shortcuts to Wi-Fi, the device settings, Explorer, video, calculator, music, browser, mail, and library hours. To scroll through the list, you must keep your finger left or right.
Reading books
Experience of using Lexand LT-227, I think, is meaningless to describe, because it is no different from any experience of using a tablet or e-book with a color screen.Unfortunately, to understand what application is used to read books, did not probably - "Bookshelf." The manufacturer claims that it supports viewing PDF, EPUB, FB2, TXT, MOBI, HTML, PDB, RTF, and LRC.In the menu contains the following tabs:

    Color. Selects the color to apply to the background
    Size. Adjustable text size (S - the smallest, XXL - the biggest)
    Enable or disable full screen mode (for some reason the Russian language this option is not transferred and remains - «FullScreen ON / OFF»)
    Bookmark. It is clear from the title - the creation or transfer to a bookmark
    Go to page. Above data is displayed on the number of pages and read before interest, below - to move the slider to the desired pageOptions:

    Enable or disable auto-rotation of the text
    Enable or disable the effect of turning pages
During testing the device behaved quite stable, but were seen cases of "departure" of the program to read at the opening PDF-files. In addition, the mechanical key turning pages behave weird: almost always did not work from the first pressing, had pressed repeatedly, sometimes by 3-4 times. It is possible that this is such a feature, or application bug, as elsewhere, pressing the keys were working without problems.If you do not like the built-in program for reading, and not only that, you can install any other, the benefit available to Google Play.
Applications
Among the standard Google applications can be found and installed by the developer:

    Dr. Web light. Light version of mobile antivirus
    Classmates 2.0
    Services Yandex. "Train", "Weather," "Mail," "Metro"
    Agent Mail
Gallery
The phone has a program for viewing pictures, and it is strange that this is a non-standard "androidovskaya" gallery of pictures, however, the functions are the same.
Web Browser
Naturally, there are links to webpages viewer, as it is part of the operating system Android. You can use the browser, but the "talk" with him is unlikely to leave a positive impression.
Multimedia
Music player. After starting at the bottom of the screen there are icons that are responsible for:

    sort tracks by filename
    music on the Internet
    sorting tracks by artist
    sort by album
    sorted by genre
    audio preview in the "Explorer"
    creating, deleting and editing a playlist
    the transition to the playback
    Output from the application
After starting the songs appear on the display album art, artist name and other information about the song. A little lower - Visual EQ, timeline and control the player. By clicking on the "Menu" button brings you to customize the equalizer (semipolosny, from 60 Hz to 12 kHz). To select a ready-made settings click on a special icon with the words «EQ».The speaker volume is low, but it's forgivable, because the device is not positioned as a multimedia station. In headphones the volume is high, the quality is good, but obviously not enough bass, as mainly dominated by medium and high.The video player. Thanks RockChip RK2818 chipset, reading room with an opportunity to play the video at resolutions up to 720p. The standard player "sees" the following video formats: MPG, RMVB, FLC, ASF, WMV, MP4, 3GP, RM, AVI, DATA, and H.264. If installed, for example, MX Video Player or Dice Player, - receive an additional formats and parameters, as a staff quite "poor" in the settings.
Conclusion
Despite the fact that Lexand LT-227 to the bone "Chinese", he is quite good at its job. In fact, in less than 4000 rubles you get not just a color reader, and a full-fledged tablet PC. However, there are some observations: weak processor, resistive display, and a relatively old version of "OSes".However, competitors have the device very, very much. For example, Wexler Book T7006, Ritmix RBK-490, Explay Informer 701 with Android 4.0 and the front camera, 3Q Qoo! Surf Tablet PC RC0710B (Android 4.0, miniHDMI and the front camera), TeXet TM-7025 (Android 4.0, 1 GHz processor, front camera, 512MB RAM, miniHDMI) and so on. The only disadvantage that the user can experience - the absence of these gadgets mechanical buttons for convenient control reader for reading text.Pros:

    Android OS
    Mechanical keys
    Matte screen
    Ability to play video in resolutions up to 720p
    Availability of Wi-Fi
    Light weight (compared to competitors)
    Rechargeable from USBCons:

    Poor quality of the screen
    A weak processor and graphics accelerator
    Old version of the OSSpecifications:

    Class: electronic reader for the Android OS
    Form Factor: candy bar
    Materials: plastic
    Processor: RockChip RK2818, 700 MHz
    Memory: 256 MB
    Data Memory: 4 GB
    Connectivity: Wi-Fi b / g / n /, miniUSB, 3.5 mm
    Screen: Resistive, 7 ", 480x800 pixels
    Extras: music and video player, Google Play
    Battery: removable, lithium-polymer (Li-Pol) capacity of 2500 mAh
    Dimensions: 180x125x9.5 mm
    Weight: 300 grams