March 7, 2010
- I just posted a review of the Archos 5 tablet over on my blog. Here are the highlights:
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I’ve been wanting to add an Android device to my collection for some time now, but I had to wait until I had the funds to spare. The Archos 5 was released last fall in the... - http://1crosstech.com is showing a cool looking combination of a 6″ e-ink e-reader on one side, with a 3.2″ HVGA Android LCD on the other side, and also with a touch panel keyboard input and a whole bunch more hardware features.
Released at: ARMdevices.net... - Read an E-Book Week has begun for 2010, and this year promises to outdo all previous years by an order of magnitude. Rita Toews has been working her butt off, interviewing for periodicals and blogs, contacting and drawing in new participants and promoters and twittering until her fingers are hoarse!
As the list of partners and promoters of e-books has grown, the number of participating authors and publishers has increased...
March 6, 2010
- Here it is again, our weekly roundup! Enjoy!
E-Book General - News and Commentary
March 5, 2010
- Interview with Oleg Naumenko, General MAnager of PocketBook about the new PocketBook 601 (cheap Freescale based), about 302/602 (resistive touch) and 603 (wacom touch) e-readers.
Released at: ARMdevices.net
March 4, 2010
- I have the good fortune to be able to share with you not 1, but 2 articles on Android reading apps. One was written by Carly of GearDiary, and I wrote the other (as part of my review of the Archos 5). You should read them both. Carly and I came to different conclusions on some of the apps.
eBook Reading Options for Android (Gear Diary)
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March 3, 2010
Gigabyte is secretly showing a prototype of Android running on their first e-ink e-reader project. They are trying to adapt Android for e-ink e-readers, to allow users to install whatever RSS feed reader, news aggregator, any source for ebooks, web browsers and more adapted reading on paper-like screens with WiFi or 3G connectivity and perhaps even touch screens. I’d like a browser plugin that lets me bookmark articles in one click to read later on the e-reader thus...
March 2, 2010
- http://armdevices.net/2010/03/02/han...der-prototype/
Hanvon is working on a 8″ and 9″ e-reader prototypes to be released once the software and the screen are stable and mass produced.
http://armdevices.net/2010/03/02/asu...at-cebit-2010/
Asus is showing this 9″ e-reader that uses SiPix and comes with a pretty cool capacitative touch screen for navigation, text input and more. It will come in WiFi and GSM...- http://armdevices.net/2010/03/02/han...sereader-n618/
Wifi, stylus touch screen input, 6″ e-reader by http://hanvon.com they may be releasing this with China Mobile with a cellular modem option instead of WiFi for the Chinese market. It comes with a very basic user interface and uses wireless modem or WiFi to access specific e-book stores to download the e...