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Nook Color Steps Up Its Tablet Game
Per Paul Demery of Internet Retailer: Is it an e-reader or a tablet? At less than half the price of an iPad 2 and small enough to fit in a handbag, the latest version of Barnes & Noble Inc.42BarnesandNoble.com Inc. Books / Music / VideosOnline Sales:$493,000,000 (IR estimate)Growth:5.8%See More. ’s Nook Color is chockfull of [...]
Back To The Future! 1988 / 2011
24 years ago, Apple’s co-founder Steve Wosniak laid out a vision for what the computer would become. The year they gave was 2000 – a bit optimistic it turns out. However, today 2011, everything in their vision has come true! When this video was created in 1988, there was no World Wide Web, no flatscreen [...]
Hands-on with Sharper Image’s Literati eReader
The Literati, a Sharper-Image-branded color e-reader, was officially announced a few weeks ago, but I spotted one out in the wild last night at a tech event in New York. Due to hit stores in October, the Wi-Fi-enabled Literati has a 7-inch LCD screen, an affordable $159 price tag that’s expected to drop with special [...]
Amazon unveils new generation of Kindles
Yes, the rumors are true. Amazon officially unveiled a next-generation Kindle that is what many tech pundits thought it would be: smaller and lighter, with a better screen and some Wi-Fi thrown into the mix. The new e-reader comes in a couple of flavors, one with both Wi-Fi and 3G wireless for $189, and a [...]
Onda VX560 PMP and e-Reader in One
Onda, a company out of China introduces the VX560 portable media player on the Chinese market. The VX560 doubles as an e-Reader and a PMP with a 7-inch LCD display with a 800×480 resolution and offers 1080p HD output via HDMI. The device supports the playback of H.264, AVI, MOV, FLC and audio file formats [...]
9-inch Asus DR-900 e-reader unveiled with 3G option
Asus is having a big day over at CeBIT in Germany. The company has also made an official announcement about its upcoming DR-900 e-book reader. Based on the picture and the description that the screen displays “crisp, paper-like” pages, the touchscreen is probably only grayscale. (Yes, there are color publications, but I’m thinking newspaper print-style [...]
Samsung partners with Barnes & Noble on new e-reader
Samsung’s new e-reader devices have been kicking around for several months, but now we’ve gotten word that the 6-inch model–the E60–will be released in the U.S. in the April-May time frame with a MSRP of $299 and a tie-in to the Barnes & Noble’s eBookstore. The E60′s claim to fame is that you can use [...]
Entourage Edge
This Android-powered eReader and Tablet combo works well, but it’s not yet fully baked. Are two screens better than one? Aimed primarily at students, the Entourage Edge is a $499 eReader-tablet combo with a 9.7-inch eInk screen on one side (like the Kindle 2) and a 10.1-inch color LCD on the other. The company calls [...]
OCTOVO Kindle Light Review
Ebook readers that use E-ink displays like the Kindle and Nook are great gadgets, but they have one major shortcoming… You can’t use them in a dark room because they don’t have a back light. The folks at OCTOVO have designed a sleek LED light especially for the Kindle 2 that will be available at [...]
E-books for the Nintendo DS
Electronic reading, whether it be via slate, phone or dedicated e-reader, has been a huge development as of late. It comes as little surprise, then, that Nintendo has announced its 100 Classic Books cartridge for release in the US on June 14. Containing 100 public-domain books packaged in a relatively attractive library format, the collection [...]