Samsung’s E6 e-reader that they announced back in January at CES is finally getting ready to be released this spring. Now Samsung has announced that they’ve formed a partnership with B&N to bring all of their ebooks and magazines to the E6. The e-reader will also use B&N’s Lend Me technology to share ebooks with you friends. The E6 will retail for $299, which is a $100 price drop from the original price mentioned at CES. Should the Nook be nervous?
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There’s nothing, nothing, we love more than talkative CEOs. And though this may not be a case of some brash smack-talking, we still appreciate Mary Lou Jepsen giving us a fresh update on the development of those delectable Pixel Qi displays. As you already know, CES provided us with our first opportunity to see one in person (in the shape of the Notion Ink Adam) and we were left highly impressed with the versatility and responsiveness of the hybrid display. Since then, Mary Lou and company have recruited a few more partners and, while production of the 10-inch units is ramping up as expected, new form factors are also being contemplated. She still won’t tell us any names, but we’re excited by the possibility of (relatively) pocketable Pixel Qi devices — how does a Dell Mini 5 with a 40-hour battery life sound?
Pixel Qi has ’several more’ partners since CES, is working on new form factors originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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What’s this we hear? Is it the distant thunder of sanity emanating from Acer’s Taiwanese headquarters? The Taipei Times is reporting this morning Acer chairman Wang Jeng-tang’s announcement that his company will not be releasing an ebook reader “for now.” It was only a month ago that Jeng-tang and his crew were telling the world about the aggressive inroads they were going to make into the Amazon-dominated e-reader market, but it appears some second-guessing has been taking place in those Taipei boardrooms, which has led to the scrapping of the earlier plans. Considering the absolute glut of interchangeable E Ink devices out there, we have to agree with Acer’s perspective; you either have to come up with something unique — like the Nook, the Edge, or the Adam — or just focus your energies elsewhere. Good job on remembering that we’re more interested in seeing that mysterious ultrathin laptop than just another run of the mill 6-inch e-reader.
Acer tables e-reader plans, says market is ‘not that big’ originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We were fortunate enough to get a quick moment with Samsung’s new assortment of e-readers back at CES, but the cool kids over at Notebook Italia were able to get the E6, E101 and E61 on video. There’s little doubt that these look awfully different than all of the other me-too options on the market, and the touch input seems to be extraordinarily responsive based on the demonstration. Speaking of which… hop on past the break to have a look yourself, cool?
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Samsung’s E6, E101 and E61 e-readers shown on video originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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You’ll be forgiven for just glazing over during CES and ignoring all those ebook readers that were raining down, but Liquavista’s attempt at marrying the endurance of e-paper with the desirability of color is well worth another look. The company has now furnished its LiquavistaColor dev kit with a QWERTY keyboard and also recruited Texas Instruments into the fold, whose OMAP system-on-a-chip is doing the grunt work under the hood. The video after the break indicates that touchscreen interaction is also planned, but the most impressive thing has to be the total lack of any redrawing pauses, which may be the considered the biggest drawback to the many E Ink devices out there. For the more conventional monochromatic crowd, we’ve also grabbed video of the LiquavistaBright, which replicates the rapid refresh skills, but omits the keyboard and OMAP in favor of a more compact form factor and Freescale iMX5x hardware. Slide past the break to see it all.
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Liquavista demos its color e-paper display with a new QWERTY-equipped dev kit (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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You may be 32 36, but that’s not to say that the kid in you is long gone. At this week’s Toy Fair in New York City, VTech took a welcome step away from the landline handset department and tried its hand with a few swank toys. Up first is the $59.99 MobiGo (shown after the break), a handheld gaming system designed for minds within humans aged 3 to 7. Seen as a little tike’s GameBoy, the device supports touch inputs and even features a QWERTY keyboard, both of which can be used to fish, color, draw, play on-screen instruments and generally enrich those malleable brain cells. Potentially more interesting, however, is the Flip; described as the planet’s first children’s animated e-reader, this $59.99 device has a 4.3-inch color touchscreen, a built-in dictionary and a QWERTY keyboard. Look out, Kindle!
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VTech launches kid-friendly MobiGo handheld gaming system, Flip e-reader originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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It was kind of inevitable with all these e-readers competing for attention at CES that some of the manufacturers would overestimate their capabilities and make promises they could not fulfill. One early candidate for the newly inaugurated promise breakers’ club is the dual-screen Entourage Edge, whose February delivery date and $490 price have both been elevated, albeit slightly, to their new values of March and $499. The delay is clearly the most significant change, though we should note the careful wording, which states that “new orders will ship March 2010″ and thereby leaves a glimmer of hope for early pre-orderers. The rest of us shouldn’t be too downhearted either, it’s a moderate time to wait, and we can just fantasize that the company’s busy filing away at that splendiferous bezel.
Update: Entourage have gotten in touch to let us know the extra $9 on the price is for the new (as of February 1) inclusion of the Documents To Go software, and pre-orders placed before January 12 will be shipped this month. Candidacy for promise breakers’ club is denied. Better luck next time.
Entourage Edge suffers month’s delay, minor price bump originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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It was threatened, and thus now available. Hit up the BlackBerry App World to download the free Kindle app now—but only if you live in the US. And are happy paying up to a tenner to read a book on a 2.44″ screen. [THINQ]
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Despite being
listed on Best Buy’s interweb pages for well over three and a half months, it seems only just now has iREX taken the chance to officially ship its
DR 800SG e-reader out to the hungry e-tailer masses. Price is back to being listed at the proper $399.99 tag and given the recent proliferation of
e-readers in the market, we can’t blame you if you’re not
immediately reaching for your wallet. Press release after the break.
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iREX DR 800SG e-reader now shipping via BestBuy.com originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Well, here’s one e-reader that won’t have too much trouble standing out from the pack — not only does Samsung’s SNE-60K boast a 6-inch touchscreen with support for handwriting recognition, but it has a fairly unique slider design that hides some of the additional controls (no
QWERTY keypad on this one, though). Otherwise, you can expect built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, MP3 support (no word on storage) and, judging from the icons on the screen, at least a few other basic applications. Still no indication of a release over here, but this one is now available at Kyobo Bookstores in South Korea for 429,000 won (or about $375).
Samsung’s sliding, handwriting-recognizing SNE-60K e-reader hits South Korea originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Samsung’s E6 e-reader that they announced back in January at CES is finally getting ready to be released this spring. Now Samsung has announced that they’ve formed a partnership with B&N to bring all of their ebooks and magazines to the E6. The e-reader will also use B&N’s Lend Me technology to share ebooks with you friends. The E6 will retail for $299, which is a $100 price drop from the original price mentioned at CES. Should the Nook be nervous?
