‘eBook eReaders’ Category

If you're not convinced it's worth paying over 900 dollars for a 7 inch tablet that's supposed to be optimized for taking notes like the ASUS EEE Pad Memo I think I've got just the right thing for you: the 13 inch NoteSlate tablet. It's more of a digital notepad, where you can use your fingers or the included digital stylus to take notes, store them, listen to some MP3 players and nothing else. There's a small price to pay for such a cheap device: 99$ for the first version. Latter models will pr...

We've talked past weeks about the ASUS EEE Note EA800, a mix between eReader and eNotepad (that's a term I've just invented), a pretty complex learning machine. Now it's time to take a look at another first from ASUS, the EEE Reader DR900, touted as the world's first 9 inch eBook reader. This time also the ASUS DR900 is not just an eReader, as it can be used to annotate eBooks and various materials you are reading thanks to the capacitive touchscreen layer mounted on top of the 9-inch SiPix elec...

We've told you last week about Asus's eReader, which was supposed to suffer a name change from EEE Tablet, you know why, because of the confusion it caused, being associated with regular tablets. Apparently we were right, as ASUS just announced today the EEE Note EA800, an interesting 8 inch eReader with added functionality of notepad, video and photo camera and educational tool. This added functionality makes the EEE Note EA800 a different eReader from what we've grown accustomed with, as you c...

If you ask anyone, the single competitor for Amazon Kindle 3rd gen and Amazon Kindle DX readers is the Nook eReader from Barnes & Noble. Well, they are not sitting on their laurels and did launch NookColor, the second generation Nook eReader, one that has a different approach to the eReader concept, one that is of big interest for me as tablet enthusiast. So what's the big difference then? Well, it all comes up to the screen, a 7 inch diagonal display that uses an IPS LCD panel, not the clas...

Even if worldwide Sharp is not that a big company, the thing is that in Japan they're pretty big, and let's see the latest example why. Today Sharp announced two new advanced eBook Readers from the Galapagos series. The two models launched are a 5.5 and a 10.8 inch screen models. The smaller one is codenamed "mobile type" while the bigger version is the "home type" reader tablet.What's interesting about those products is the high screen resolution: 1024 x 600 pixels for the 5.5 inch Galapago...

I love market studies that throw away my old expectations. The last report to do so is one about eReader market in US, where apparently 8% of adults own and use a device for reading eBooks, be it an actual eReader or a tablet like the iPad. Interestingly enough, 12 % of the rest of the adults intend to get an eReader in the next 6 months.That makes for over 1 in 10 adults in US, which strikes me, considering many foreigners don't consider Americans as the country where people read too much. ...

Even if many perceive Sony as a company that build premium products, they are a brand that also focuses on innovation. Innovation is not enough to guarantee success, but definitely helps a lot. In this case we have a flexible display, eInk type, demoed by Sony at a dealer convention.EInk displays are not something new, but the flexible variety surely are. We don't have much info on this tech, as I'm sure Sony is in an early process of development.That's easy to be seen from the picture b...

Even if some users are seeing eReaders as tablets we must admit they are a primitive form of tablet, one that can only read books and perform small tasks. But eReaders are best at what they're doing, and I'm sure once eInk display technology evolves, we'll be able to get color eBook readers that will even display motion pictures. But till then we'll have to do with the excellent properties of current display technologies for eReaders: great sunlight legibility and battery life.And to prove t...