eBookMan
The eBookMan is a personal digital assistant (PDA), which was produced by the US company Franklin in 2000 and distributed by Ectaco . The device is primarily designed as an e-book reader , but it also supports common PDA functions such as scheduling, address management, pocket calculator, as well as playing MP3 files and recording voice memos. There was also an active community that developed numerous other software, such as office and graphics applications, as well as games for the device. E-books can be read in Mobipocket (up to Mobipocket Reader version 4.8), text files , HTML , PalmDOC and Franklin's own FUB format.
The operating system used is FranklinOS, developed by Franklin, which is not compatible with Palm OS , Windows CE or EPOC .
At the end of 2002 , Franklin's research and development was stopped. Since then, the device has been offered as an electronic dictionary.
Versions
EBM 901
The basic model with 8 MB internal memory, available since 2000 .
EBM 911
The EBM 911 appeared at the same time. The differences to the 901 are the additional background lighting and the internal memory that has been expanded to 16 MB.
BDS-900
In 2002 the BDS-900 was offered based on the eBookman, which is primarily intended to function as a digital dictionary and can also pronounce vocabulary.
Technical specifications
LC display:
- 240 × 200 pixels
- 16 shades of gray
- Touch screen
- Display in both portrait and landscape format
- Only the 911 model has backlight
Hardware:
- USB port
- Slot for MultiMediaCard (MMC)
- Headphone jack
- speaker
- microphone
Operating system:
- eBookMan Operating System (OS) 1.0
Storage:
- 8 MB SDRAM for the 901 model / 16 MB SDRAM for the 911 model
- Expandable with MMC card (in any capacity). The MMC card can only be read, not written to. You can only write to the internal memory.
Power supply:
- Batteries: 2 × AAA
- Power supply unit (optional, 2x AAA batteries are always required in the device)
service
As with other PDAs, handwriting recognition is used for entering data in the eBookMan . A virtual keyboard is optionally available for some programs.
data backup
The handhelds are backed up via HotSync with a Windows PC, Macintosh or Linux computer. To do this, the device is placed in its docking station or connected to the PC with an A / A USB cable and synchronized using the eBookMan Manager software. New programs and data are transferred to the handheld in this way.