Articles about ereader

Today Barnes and Noble officially announced the the 7 inch Nook Tablet, a slate meant to compete with the upcoming Amazon Kindle Fire. It's priced a little bit higher, at $249, but it also offers a little bit more for the money.Almost all specs from last week are confirmed, so the Nook Tablet is a 7 inch slate with 1024 x 600 pixels resolution (IPS display), a fast dual core TI OMAP 4 processor running at 1GHz, helped by 1GB RAM and 16 GB of internal storage, expandable via microSD cards up...

The 7 inch tablet arena is heating up pretty fast, as a new leak in Futureshop online store in Canada has revealed for a short time the new Kobo 7 inch Android tablet/eReader. You might remember Kobo with the eReader Touch, a competitor on paper for the Barnes and Noble Nook Simple Touch Reader and recently the announced Amazon Kindle Touch.Now Kobo is expected to announce officially the Vox, a 7 inch tablet eReader/tablet meant to compete directly with Amazon Kindle Fire and Nook Color. Act...

Together with the Kindle Fire tablet Amazon announced today a plethora of new Kindle eReaders that are worth your attention. The three new devices are Kindle, Kindle Touch and Kindle Touch 3G. The previous Kindle generation was renamed to Amazon Kindle Keyboard (WiFi and 3G models from &99 to $189) to denote the presence of a physical keyboard that lacks on the new Kindle eReader.Let's digg in and see which one is appropriate for you as features and pricing are concerned. Prices vary fr...

Sony is one of the players constantly raising the bar in the eReader market, and their latest product is even better. Sony Reader Wi-Fi (PRS-T1) is the lightest 6 inch eReader in the worlds, at only 168 grams (5.93 ounces). It's also one of the slimmest, at only 8.9 mm.Now let's talk a little bit about the features of Sony Reader WiFi: it uses a 6 inch E Ink Pearl display with 600 x 800 pixels resolution, on top of which there the "Clear Touch Infrared", a fancy name for the IR  technolog...

Definitely one of the 'different' tablets out there in past 12 months was the Notion Ink Adam, a 10 inch tablet with an amazing Pixel Qi screen, a dual mode display capable of turning into black-and-white with no backlighting for a high contrast low power mode suitable for outdoor reading, thus being one of the best non eInk alternatives to an eReader.The Notion Ink Adam was also one of the first tablets to show up with the new generation Tegra 2 dual core CPU. Add to that a customized Andro...

The eBook market is a big one, with Amazon dominating clearly right now, but we all know Google likes to expand to new markets and take over the first place. It doesn't always manage to achieve that, but when it comes to digital books the stakes are too high for Google not to try and compete. Their latest achievement is the launch of iRiver Story HD, a very slim and alight 6 inch eReader that can connect via WiFi to Google's eBooks service, the one launched in December 2010.With over 3 milli...

Even though tablets seem to be on a killing spree when it comes to gaining market share and affecting other gadgets sales, a recent report sheds a new interesting light on this matter: eReaders are the fastest growing market today. The report was done in US, so it relates to this market, but can be used as a tool to predict the market evolution in other countries too in the years to come.Anyway, the study says that in just 6 months the eReader adoption rate grew from 6 to 12 percents, pract...

Kobo is one of the small players in the eReader market, but they have right now the cheapest priced 6 inch eInk touch eReader, the Kobo Touch Edition, which will begin selling in June for just $129. It's $10 cheaper than the recently announced Barnes And Noble Nook Touch and the Amazon Kindle 3.Considering the fact Amazon announced its eBook sales surpassed paper books it's normal to see more and more manufacturers trying to get into the eReader business. Kobo is not really a big brand, as t...

One market somewhat related to tablets is the eReader one, where Amazon fights neck to neck with Barnes and Noble. The fight is getting fierce as Barnes and Noble just launched the All new Nook Simple Touch, the simple touch reader, a direct competitor to the Kindle 3, boasting the same 6 inch eInk screen, but with an amazing 2 months battery life. Unlike the Kindle, the all new Nook simple touch reader features less buttons, a square-ish form and a touch screen display that makes it easier to n...

One of the most interesting eReaders on market today's is Barnes & Noble Nook Color, a very competitive product for the Amazon Kindle 3, the best sold eReader. It's more expensive, $248 from Amazon, but adds a color screen and since this day a lot more functionality thanks to the Android 2.2 upgrade (called Nook Update 1.2) it received that adds third party app support and subsequently access to the Nook app store, a new Email client and the Adobe Flash player. The update can be done manuall...