This post is just in case anyone is interested in my experience with this device.
I've just bought myself an Onyx Book Poke5 e-reader. It looks very similar to a 6" Kindle and actually uses the same display. I used to have a Kindle but threw it away as Kindle seems to have a long-standing bug that wouldn't let it properly sync the library collections with my other phones. This device is based on Android 11 so you can, after a bit of faffing around to enable Google Play, download apps from the Play Store and also load your own apps using B4A-Bridge. I don't know if USB is available for loading apps from the B4A IDE as I only use B4A-Bridge but plugging it into a PC USB port to access the file store works as do my usual FTP server apps. The available Android settings available are rather limited but the important ones are all there so it really does behave like an Android device, you can install other keyboards, and supposedly launchers, though I haven't bothered trying that as the stock launcher is fine for my use.
I bought this to use in my conservatory where a phone display tends to be difficult to read when the sun is out. Obviously it would also be useful when fully outside in the sun. My intended use is reading books, via the Kindle app, and as a crossword helper with the Chambers, Collins and Oxford dictionary apps. For these purposes it is fine as they are largely static text with minimal keyboard input. For any app involving text input or displaying images it is a bit useless as the slow display refresh makes it a bit tedious. The black and white display makes some apps difficult to read but there are a range of settings, individual to each app, that mitigates the problem but a legible result is not necessarily always pretty. With that said every app that I have tried does run.
If anyone has any questions I'm happy to answer them.
I've just bought myself an Onyx Book Poke5 e-reader. It looks very similar to a 6" Kindle and actually uses the same display. I used to have a Kindle but threw it away as Kindle seems to have a long-standing bug that wouldn't let it properly sync the library collections with my other phones. This device is based on Android 11 so you can, after a bit of faffing around to enable Google Play, download apps from the Play Store and also load your own apps using B4A-Bridge. I don't know if USB is available for loading apps from the B4A IDE as I only use B4A-Bridge but plugging it into a PC USB port to access the file store works as do my usual FTP server apps. The available Android settings available are rather limited but the important ones are all there so it really does behave like an Android device, you can install other keyboards, and supposedly launchers, though I haven't bothered trying that as the stock launcher is fine for my use.
I bought this to use in my conservatory where a phone display tends to be difficult to read when the sun is out. Obviously it would also be useful when fully outside in the sun. My intended use is reading books, via the Kindle app, and as a crossword helper with the Chambers, Collins and Oxford dictionary apps. For these purposes it is fine as they are largely static text with minimal keyboard input. For any app involving text input or displaying images it is a bit useless as the slow display refresh makes it a bit tedious. The black and white display makes some apps difficult to read but there are a range of settings, individual to each app, that mitigates the problem but a legible result is not necessarily always pretty. With that said every app that I have tried does run.
If anyone has any questions I'm happy to answer them.