Notion Ink Tablet; HTC Tablet Rumors; Onyx Boox 60 1 comment
The first announced device to use a Pixel Qi display will debut at CES 2010.
Notion Ink’s new tablet will be based on the Nvidia Tegra T20 chipset and will run Android.
Some of the features include WiFi, Bluetooth and UMTS/HSDPA connectivity, 1080P HD video playback, camera, GPS and a digital compass. Notion Ink’s new tablet will sport a 10.1-inch touchscreen and weigh 1.7 lbs.
I’m going to be able to spend a couple of days at CES, and this is definitely one of the new devices that I’ll want to check out.
Pixel Qi displays could turn tablet devices such as this one into very viable larger format ereaders. Is it possible that the much rumored about Apple iSlate or whatever it turns out to be called will use Pixel Qi? 9to5Mac.com has some interesting speculation on an Apple-Pixel Qi connection.
Google/HTC Tablet Rumors
Smarthouse.com reports that HTC and Google have been working on another tablet which they will be showing behind closed doors at CES to select HTC customers.
Google’s Google Editions ebook store should launch in the first half of 2010, and no doubt Google would love for you to buy a device such as this one to access it on.
Onyx Boox 60
The Onyx Boox 60 ereader will be distributed in the US by Dulin’s Books.
The Boox features a 6-inch Vizplex e-Ink display with 16 grayscales and uses Wacom touchscreen technology which needs a stylus to use but avoids the scary glary capacitive touchscreen that Sony, for example uses. Using the stylus you can make annotations and even freehand drawings and sketches.
Other features include WiFi and 3G connectivity, Webkit browser, search and dictionary functions, text to speech support, changeable fonts and font sizes, PDF zoom in/out. Folders are also supported.
Supported formats include Adobe Digital Editions as well as PDF, TXT, HTML, MOBIPOCKET, EPUB, CHM, PDB, JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, MP3 and WAV.
This looks like a pretty good ereader with lots of features, but the price is $349, which is rather steep when compared to the nook or Kindle. The Wacom touchscreen and the ability to zoom in and out on PDF docs and annotate them looks great, but I think that a 6-inch screen will be too small for many of the users who really need these particular features.
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