Apple finally revealed its long-rumored tablet: iPad. It’s half inch thick, weighs about 1.5 pounds, and has a 9.7 inch touchscreen (IPS LCD), powered by a custom made A4 1GHz CPU. All iPod touch/iPhone applications can be used on iPad without any port or modifications. The battery can last about 10 hours and one month [...]
People at ASUS UK released a couple of pictures about an eReader, possibly the DR-950?
Update: The photos are now pulled down on Flickr. A teaser?
Forget about Steve Jobs’ “People Don’t Read Anymore” and his premonition about the death of the Kindle. Although Apple never states that it will make a reader (and it won’t), the long rumored tablet device, which will possibly revealed on 27th this month, seems like a perfect candidate to an all-round eBook reader.
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Last year we have seen the onset of the ebook digital reader market with the buzzword ‘Kindle’. Now ASUS is ready to get involved in the ebook business with two readers, DR-570 and DR-950.
The DR-570 hosts a 6 inch OLED color touch screen, and it brags a battery run time over 120 hrs with [...]
The wait is over. The beta version of Kindle for PC is finally out. Currently the reader only supports Windows OS. Mac users should also expect it coming within a few weeks.
Note that Kindle newspapers, magazines, and blogs are not currently available for Kindle for PC.
The ebook business never looks so hot in the last few weeks. First, Barnes & Noble releases their own eBook Reader devices. Amazon, on the other hand, introduces its international version of Kindle and also cut its retail price. Not to mention other massive ebook devices appearing on the market.
Now, feeling all the pressures [...]
Don’t call it another Kindle clone? But this is exactly an Amazon Kindle DX wannabe. The Korean company, iRiver, renowned for its MP3 players, now gives the world a surprise with its Story reader. It sports a full QWERTY keyboard, a memory card slot (SDHC) content with up to 32GB, and a 6 inch E-ink [...]
The Hanvon D21 has recently been reviewed (in Chinese), and currently it is only available in China. In terms of the specs, it has a 5 inch E-ink display with a 4:3 aspect ratio. The resolution is claimed to be 800×600. As you can see from the picture, it adopts a QWERTY keyboard, like [...]
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