E-readers and e-ink tablets · Bigme
Owners keep the Bigme B6 as a small Android colour e-reader they can run several reading and listening apps on, and they enjoy making it their own with stickers and cases.
Owners decorate the B6 with stickers and folding sleep cases, and several treat personalizing the back of the device as part of the fun of owning it; one even wished for more surface area to cover.
The battery is small, and owners who use apps that refresh the screen often say it drains the way an Android tablet does, meaning charging every couple of days; only a few accounts raised this, so it is not yet a judged theme.
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Once the novelty passes, what owners still enjoy is the flexibility of an Android device: reading across several apps, listening, and loading books onto a micro SD card instead of syncing through a cloud service. The colour Kaleido 3 screen is a known compromise. It looks darker with the front light off, and owners who came from black and white e-readers say you have to be willing to accept that and lean on the light more. One owner noted that side-by-side screen comparisons show differences in colour and contrast that most people would not notice on their own.
The adjustment most owners describe is charging. With a small battery, heavy app use runs it down within a couple of days, though it tops up quickly. Owners who only read ebooks or use a single store subscription say a dedicated e-reader would last far longer, while those who want apps accept the trade. Decorating the device with stickers or a folding case is a small routine pleasure that several owners mention.
The accounts here do not describe anything breaking. What owners talk about is the screen behaving as Kaleido 3 colour e-ink always does (dimmer unlit, dependent on the front light) and the battery draining faster than a plain e-reader under app-heavy use. The response owners describe is simply charging every couple of days, which they say is fast given the small cell.
Long-term accounts are thin. Only a handful of owners discussed the screen or the battery at all, and none reported on wear, failures, or how the device holds up after extended use. The few who gave an overall view were happy with it, with one calling it a first e-reader with no complaints, but that is not enough to say how it lasts.
Nothing has a clear majority against it yet. Counted from the owners who raised each subject, not from everyone. A subject is judged once at least 4 owners raise it.
41 more subjects came up from fewer than 4 owners each, which is not enough for a fair reading. To see how it stacks up, compare it with another machine.
The same owner, asked again at each point. Fills in as owners answer.
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Among the 1 owner accounts here that gave a duration, 0 described a failure.
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