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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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A roundup of several ereader related news stories from the last few days.
Borders Not Making Their Own eReader
Reuters reports that Borders Group, Inc. CEO Ron Marshall denies that Borders will make its own ereader. He cites reasons such as the expense and time required. Marshall also makes the point that while it may still be possible to launch a successful ereader product, the window of opportunity is closing fast, with the field due to become even more crowded in the near future.
Borders announced a partnership a few days ago with Kobo to sell ebooks on the Borders website. Marshall says that Border’s ebook strategy will be “device agnostic.”
Sounds like a good idea – we really don’t need any more me-too ereader clones.
Sony Gets Exclusive Content from WSJ and MarketWatch
A few days ago Sony announced a new relationship with Dow Jones & Co. for exclusive content from the Wall Street Journal and MarketWatch to be delivered wirelessly to the Sony Reader Daily Edition. Sony will also be offering the only version of the New York Post available on ereaders.
The monthly subscription for the WSJ will run $14.99 or $19.99 for WSJ Plus. The New York Post will be $9.99 per month, and Marketwatch Today will be $10.99 per month.
Sony’s Reader Store only seems to have three other newspapers at the moment besides the Wall Street Journal, though other newspapers should be available soon.
nook gets Rooted & Hacked
Last weekend nookDevs reported that they had successfully rooted the nook ereader, and in the last couple of days they have been apparently getting apps such as a browser to work on hacked nooks.
Rooting an Android-based device gives you administrative rights and the ability to alter system files, and therefore the ability to totally control the device.
This is nothing that the average nook ereader owner will want to do; rooting a nook involves invasive surgery that voids the warranty and could very well brick your ereader. However, in very short order we should begin to see some software hacks for the nook that will be more accessible.
Third party apps for the nook’s Android operating system have been something that some fans of the nook ereader have been hoping and waiting for. Barnes & Noble has so far not commented about nookDevs’ activities. When the nook was officially announced B&N kind of sort of left the door ajar to apps, but I doubt that they would be happy with a browser that would eat up bandwidth that B&N would be paying for. But wait, the nook has WiFi as well as an AT&T connection. Perhaps a browser that would work when the nook has a WiFi connection could fly.
The latest Kindle Chronicles podcast has an interview with the 18 year old high school student behind the nookDevs website.
Kindle DX Sold Out
Estimated shipping time on the Kindle DX is now four to six weeks.
Notion Ink Pixel Qi Tablet
Slashgear has a report about the first confirmed device to use the Pixel Qi display. The tablet should be unveiled at CES in January.
The device will reportedly be based on the Nvidia Tegra T20 chipset which supports 1080p HD video. There are lots of additional bells and whistles including WiFi and Bluetooth, GPS, digital compass and camera.
Pixel Qi could well prove to be the dark horse of 2010’s several new display technologies. With the ability to switch between a transmissive display mode like a regular LCD and a reflective epaper-like mode, Pixel Qi could be used to make multifunction devices and notebooks/netbooks into very viable reading platforms.
