The Spring Design Alex was set to make an impression on the e-reader market, and it sort of takes after the Nook. Here’s a little reminder of the Android e-reader’s stats:
The Alex combines the ability to read on a monochrome EPD screen while displaying the dynamic hyperlinked information on the secondary screen in full color. Alex is the first Google Android-based e-book device to provide full Internet
browsing over Wi-Fi or mobile networks such as 3G, EVDO/CDMA and GSM.
At CES, there was word that this product would be out by February 22nd, but it is now the 23rd, and there is no sign of it. Even the website just has that ambiguous “coming soon” on it.
Well, I’m sure it will show up eventually, we’ll be certain to report on it when it does.
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There is a new E-Reader on the market and it comes from OPPO, its name is exactly Enjoy – because most likely you will enjoy your reading sessions better.
As you can’t do much for a design of an E-Reader, they’ve decided to KISS – keep it simple stupid – and add a few buttons on the right and left side, as well as below the screen. The most notable features is the use of Android as the OS, and the good price tag of $300 which doesn’t make it expensive nor cheap, it’s just in the right spot.
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Today is not a good day to announce something new in electronics. I mean, do you really want to try and one-up Apple’s iPad? Well, Asus has made an announcement on their Eee Pad, and Taiwan’s Delta Electronics have an announcement of their own with their color e-reader.
That’s right, a full-color e-reader. It has a 13.1-inch color screen and relies on e-paper technology from Bridgestone. It should be available in the second quarter of 2010, but I don’t know the price as yet.
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Another day, another e-reader (or two). In this case, this one is from Mustek, called the MER-6T.
It has 800 x 600 resolution, a black and white display, with 2GB of built-in memory. It supports formats like PDF, EPUB, TXT, RTF, FB2, PRC, MOBI, and HTML. There is no word of pricing or availability, but we’ll see if it can stand out in a market that is presently polluted with e-book readers.
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Acer has been doing some planning for this year, and they have set their sights high. In the next few months, they intend on launching a black-and-white 6-inch ebook reader. It is slated to be released in Europe, and may or may not make it to the United States.
Acer also intends on launching that Chrome OS netbook sometime in its third quarter, and have high hopes for it. I believe they intend the netbook to account for eight percent of their total sales. Dang!
As for the App Store, that s coming in June to support Android, Windows Mobile, and the Google Chrome Operating systems. These apps would be for free.
As for the tablet, Jim Wong, the president of IT products division, says “we will see what happens”.
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Here is another BeBook Neo eReader, and this one has a claim of being “the world’s first Wi-Fi e-reader with access to eBook stores worldwide”.
It has a 1600mAh Li-ion battery (good enough for a 3-hour charge), and a 532MHz Freescale processor. It also has 512MB of internal flash memory which is expandable with a 16GB SD card slot. It can support ePUB, PDF, HTML, and others. It’s got a 6 inch touchscreen and will cost about $299.
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According to my source, Lenovo is planning on launching this e-book reader known as the Tianji iBook EB-605.
This guy sports a Samsung ARM 400MHz processor, a 6-inch display, picture browser, and support of many formats including EPUB as well as an option for newspaper subscription. The price is about $293.
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We’ve already discovered how Oppo is bringing an Android phone to China, and it would appear that they are also bring an e-reader as well.
The Oppo Enjoy is a 6-inch e-ink reader that also runs on Android. Other than that, this is about all my Source knows. It didn’t even have a price or availability date. That does look like a trackball on the right, doesn’t it?
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Not content to put out one e-reader with the DR-570, Asus is also planning on giving the world the DR-950.
The Asus DR-950 has a 9-inch screen with 1,024 x 768 resolution, but not in color. Instead, you’ve got 16 levels of gray. It does have a web-browser that works in portrait or landscape modes, a virtual keyboard, as well as handwriting input. Other features include text-to-speech, an RSS reader, a dictionary, real-time translation, 3.5 mm headphone jack, and stereo speakers. It should have 4GB of internal memory and SD Card expasion, as well as support for PDF, TXT, Audible, and MP3 formats.
I’m guessing that we will be seeing this DR-950 sometime this year, but like the DR-570, there is no word on price.
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I don’t know where the Asus DR-570 was at CES 2010, but I guess now is the time for this new e-book reader to make the news. Unfortunately, we probably won’t be seeing this device until the end of this year.
And what a wait that will be! According to my sources, it has a 6-inch OLED screen, Flash video playback, WiFi, 3G, and can last 122 hours on one charge. We don’t have any word on any price, but perhaps we should compare it to the Nook.
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According to New York Magazine, the New York Times is intending to charge online readers for its content. I suppose that this makes a world of sense, since all these tablet and e-readers could easily replace traditional newspapers.
Especially since that whole rumor that Apple is launching that iSlate thing on January 27th. I don’t know if print is dead yet, but with NYT offering this paywall system, it may be sooner rather than later before we see all our news in digital form.
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There were a lot of e-readers over at the CES 2010 but brace yourself for another one. Audiovox bared an e-reader of its own with the Lexi e-book reader.
This e-reader features a 6” 800×600 resolution display, 2GB of internal memory together with a battery that is good for 700 page turns. The Lexi e-reader is coming out this May and will retail for about $229.00.
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The Alex dual-screen Android-based eReader was first reported last October with all the specs but the release date. Apparently the time for the Alex eReader is now as Spring Designs is scheduled to debut this dual-screen Google Android-based e-reader at the CES 2010 from January 7 to 10.
Among the highlights of the Alex e-Reader include its ability to fully integrate web browsing and reading as well as its patented dual-screen interaction technology. The Alex dual-screen e-Reader will retail for $399.00 and will be available starting February 22.
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Those who may have missed the Pocketbook Series from Dulin’s Books might want to check out the Onyx Boox 60.
This particular e-book reader has a 6-inch touchscreen with Vizplex E-ink display, 512 MB of internal memory, microSD card slot, WiFi, a 3.5mm headphone jack, miniUSB, a 532MHz processor, and support for all kinds of formats including EPUB, PDF, Mobipocket, FB2, TXT, PDB, HTML, CHM, JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF, and MP3. It is priced at about $349.
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It seems like there is an abundance of e-readers on the market, and every company seems to have their own personal version. Personally, I believe that whoever has the first cheap color capable one will eventually rule the market better than the Kindle or the Nook.
I suppose it should come as no surprise that Packard Bell wants to enter this e-reader game with their own edition. It doesn’t have a name yet, but my source says that it will have a color screen, as well as movies and music. We should expect it in September 2010.
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Unlike the Intel Reader, these readers from Dulin’s Books are just readers. The PocketBook 301+ and PocketBook 360 are really rebranded readers with 400 MHz Samsung processors, 512MB flash storage, an expandable microSD slot, and support for six languages.
The Pocketbook 360 has a 5-inch display, plus an accleromerter for changing the orientation of the page. The 301+ has MP3 support with built-in speaker and a 6-inch display, plus “some expanded media playback and game options”. Both readers will be available soon with the 301+ at $275 and the 360 at $240.
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All you need to do is use the reader to take a picture of the book, and it will use its text-scanning and text-to-speech engine to read the words on the page. This will be very helpful for the blind and others with reading-debilitating conditions. This reader will also play MP3s, and will turn your photographed books into MP3s as well.
There is a video of it after the jump for more of its groundbreaking features, but this device will cost you. How much? Try about $1,499.
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It has a 7 inch LCD color screen, and online access to news, weather, stocks, maps, as well as Gmail, YouTube, IP Radio, and Picassa. It is also an e-book reader, photo displayer, card reader, and, of course, much, much more. The Sungale Smart Info Engine is available now at major retailers and Amazon for about $279.
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