The Bookeen Orizon, First e-Book with Multitouch Capabilities
The Bookeen Orizon, First e-Book with Multitouch Capabilities
Posted 02/17/2010 at 8:06pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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If you had asked us what electronic device had no business running a multitouch display, we’d have said eInk-based ereaders. Apparently, we don’t know what we’re talking about, because the Bookeen Orizon is an ereader with a multitouch screen. Why? So you can adjust the zoom level. No one wants to use buttons for that, right?
The Bookeen Orizon will be out in May and will retail for $250. When the current price of a Kindle or Nook is just a bit higher, they must really be banking on people going crazy for the multitouch. The screen is 6 inches and the device will come with 1GB of built-in storage. There’s no book store for this product, but it supports whatever ePub files or PDFs you’d like to put on it.
Even if you don’t need an integrated book store, why get this over a Sony reader? Is anyone really hankering for multitouch zooming on their ereader?
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nekollx
February 18, 2010 at 10:34am
Broken (v)orizon
lol
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Member2600
February 18, 2010 at 1:19pm
Lol this product is full of fail, has an obviously terrible name with and an equally terrible premise for exsisting. Its like the iPad fiasco all over again.
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