E-Reader-Info is a leading resource on electronic book readers. Sony, Amazon, Barnes&Noble and other companies are offering new e-readers today that are proving very popular. Our site brings you daily news, e-reader resources, an on-line shop and more!Samsung releases the E6 e-reader in the US03/09/2010Samsung announced that the E6 e-reader will soon be available in the US market. They have formed a partnership with Barnes & Noble for an e-book store. It'll cost $299 when launched. The Samsung SNE-60K is a slider e-reader (with some extra controls under the slide) with a 6" E Ink touchscreen (using a stylus), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and hand-writing recognition software. 1Cross Tech MIDhybrid03/09/2010Display type: E Ink and a small LCD The MIDhybrid is an dual-display e-reader with an E Ink panel on the left and a small LCD plus a keypad on the right. It's running Android 1.6 (over a Marvell chipset). It also has 3G, bluetooth and a webcam. Check out this 15 minutes preview video. Daza Electronics announce a couple of 6" E-Readers03/05/2010Daza Electronics announce the E-002, a 6" (800x600) E Ink e-reader that supports PDF and ePub formats, and also the E-003 which adds a QWERTY keyboard and WiFi or 3G: Boeye 9.7" E Ink e-reader video03/05/2010Remember the Boeye G10? It's a 9.7" e-reader that looks very much like Amazon's Kindle, that Boeye released back in January. Here's a nice video of that reader from CeBit: Most people who want to buy an e-reader plan to get an iPad03/05/2010A new poll of around 3000 consumers by ChangeWave Research finds that 40% of people planning to buy an e-reader in the next 90 dsays expect to buy an Apple iPad. 28% say they expect to get a Kindle. 27% of current e-reader owners say that they would have bought an iPad instead of what they got. Via Investors.com Gigabyte are working on an Android E Ink e-reader03/04/2010It seems that Gigabyte are developing an E Ink (6" 800x600) e-reader (called EB10) that's running on the Android OS (or Linux or Win CE 6.0) using a 667Mhz Samsung processor. They want to allow users to install any software on the reader: RSS readers, news aggregators, e-book readers, web browser and more. Check the following video preview: Color E Ink readers to appear in 2011, faster E Ink to arrive in 2012-1303/04/2010Sri Peruvemba from E Ink has talked to PC Magazine, and he gives some very interesting information. He expects color E Ink to arrive soon, and devices based on this technology would ship in the beginning of 2011. This color will be more like the color you would see in a newspaper, and not like an LCD display. We can expect more on this from E Ink at the SID show in May. Sri also reveals that they are working on much-faster E Ink displays, but it can take around 2-3 years for such technology to show up in shipping products... Via E-Ink-Info |