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Pocketbook 360° reviewed: fastest ereader around

By Chris Davies on Monday, Mar 15th 2010 No Comments

Given the number of wireless-enabled, high-aspiring ereaders we’ve seen promised for launch and then failing to turn up on schedule – Plastic Logic and Spring Design, we’re looking at you – there are times when you wonder if you’re better off with a regular ebook device that does the basics well. One such example might be the Pocketbook 360°, a non-wireless reader around the size of a CD case and half the weight of a Kindle or nook; it may not let you download ebooks while on the move, but it does apparently boast super-fast speed and usability.

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Spring Design Alex on sale Tuesday March 16th?

By Chris Davies on Friday, Mar 12th 2010 No Comments

From one delayed ebook reader to another, and it’s now the turn of the Spring Design Alex to throw some grist into the rumor mill. According to our tipster the company’s Android-based dual display ereader – which has an E Ink panel up top and an LCD touchscreen underneath – will go on sale at the company’s site come Tuesday March 16th.

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Spring Design Alex set to launch in “early spring”

By Paul Fang on Monday, Mar 8th 2010 1 Comment

So come the first week of March, and Spring Design still has yet to reveal any signs of its dual screen Alex e-reader being available for pre-order, last seen at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. The company’s website has been reading “keep checking in and by the first week of March you’ll be able to preorder your Alex online”.

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Pixel Qi Offers DIY Screen Replacement: Easy As Changing a Lightbulb

By Evan Selleck on Monday, Mar 8th 2010 No Comments

Do it yourself kits aren’t new, and it’s not even a new phase washing over the world. People have been finding ways to make things on their own for quite a long time. It’s part of man’s ingenuity. But some times, or maybe even more often than not, doing it yourself can be a real pain. Well, Pixel Qi wants to make it at least a little bit easier for you to replace that bland ol’ LCD screen on your laptop by offering you a do it yourself kit.

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Entourage eDGe gets reviewed: double-displays but half-baked?

By Chris Davies on Friday, Mar 5th 2010 No Comments

As a distinctive dual-display device (running Android no less) there’s been plenty of attention on the Entourage eDGe e-reader since it was announced late last year. Packing a separate E Ink panel with an active digitizer and a touchscreen LCD with the Android UI, Entourage bill the eDGe as the ideal education, reading and research tool. Over at LAPTOP, however, they’re not so sure; they’ve been reviewing the eDGe, and the end result is a feeling that it’s not quite market-ready.

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Color E Ink devices to ship Q1 2011

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Mar 4th 2010 No Comments

flexible color e paper Ereader display heavyweight E Ink reckon they’ll have a color e-paper panel ready in time for devices to ship in the first quarter of 2011, according to their VP of marketing. Speaking to PCMag this week, Sriram Peruvemba revealed that E Ink plan to show off newer color e-paper displays at SID in a few weeks time, and that the company is working on significantly improved refresh rates.

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1Cross B’ook ereader: Entourage eDGe on a budget? [Video]

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Mar 3rd 2010 No Comments

Trade shows always bring out some unusual hardware, and the 1Cross B’ook is perhaps one of the odder we’ve seen from CeBIT 2010 so far this week. Borrowing from the design of both the Entourage eDGe and the Barnes & Noble nook, the dual-display clamshell ereader has a 6-inch E Ink panel on the left side and a 3.2-inch LCD touchscreen on the right; unlike the eDGe, the majority of the right side is taken up by a physical touch-sensitive keyboard and shortcut buttons.

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ASUS DR-900 ereader launches: 9-inch E Ink & optional 3G

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Mar 2nd 2010 No Comments

ASUS have outed their new ebook reader at CeBIT 2010 this week, the DR-900, a 9-inch super-slim device with an E Ink display. The ASUS DR-900 – according to the brief PR blurb the company have supplied – has integrated WiFi and optional 3G connectivity, and they reckon it’s no thicker than a pencil.

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Western Digital My Passport Studio HDD gets E-Ink status display

By Chris Davies on Monday, Mar 1st 2010 No Comments

Western Digital have outed a new portable hard-drive, the My Passport Studio, and like the My Book Studio before it they’ve slapped on a super-frugal E Ink panel to show drive status details. Available in 320GB, 500GB and 640GB capacities, the My Passport Studio has both FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 connections and comes ready formatted for use with a Mac.

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Entourage eDGe early preorders shipping now; everyone else can wait until March

By Chris Davies on Friday, Feb 26th 2010 No Comments

Entourage's dual-display eDGe ereader went up for pre-order a while back, but if you didn't get in there early you shouldn't expect to see your device until sometime in March 2010. According to the company, anyone who pre-ordered the eDGe before January 12th will have their ereader ship this week, and Entourage have also revealed a few more details about what sort of user experience - specifically battery runtimes - owners can expect.

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