Fujitsu Releases Full-Color, Windows-Rocking eBook Reader
Fujitsu Releases Full-Color, Windows-Rocking eBook Reader
Posted 03/18/2009 at 7:16am
| by Paul Lilly
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Giving Amazon's Kindle and Kindle 2 some competition in the eBook market, Fujitsu has at long last released its full-color eBook reader called FLEPia. Fujitsu had first shown off the FLEPia in concept form back in 2006 and has been drumming up interest with periodic glimpses ever since.
The FLEPia comes in both black and white unit colors and features an 8-inch XGA (1024 x 768) touchscreen capable of displaying 260,000 colors. Other specs include 802.11b/g WiFi connectivity, Bluetooth capability, embedded stereo speakers and a headphone connector, and an SD card memory card slot with support for up to 4GB, enough to hold 5,000 paper-based books 300-pages each.
Measuring less than a half an inch thick, Fujitsu says its FLEPia will last up to 40 continuous hours before having to be recharged. According to Fujitsu, the device doesn't require power to maintain a screen display because the color ePaper employed displays text and images by reflecting external light. The only time the FLEPia consumes power, says Fujitsu, is during re-draw, in which power consumption would be about 1/50 that of a standard notebook.
The Japanese version ships with Windows CE 5.0, giving end-users an internet browser, email, and other software.
The FLEPia starts shipping in Japan on April 20th for 99,750 Yen, which converts to a little over $1,000 USD.
(Image Credit: Fujitsu)
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horzo
March 18, 2009 at 12:39pm
Kindle's big draw is its easy content delivery system. Anyone who wants to challenge needs to be come up with cooler hardware, match the price, and also make buying books just as easy. Dumping DRM would also be nice.
Keith E. Whisman
March 18, 2009 at 10:34am
An E-Book reader should never cost more than $300 dollars. Come on manufacturers if you want to make a really successful product that'll really sell great where everyone will own one is to make an Ebook reader that is feature rich and sell it at WalMart for under $300dollars. Hell it should be under $200 and in 5years I believe that if these things every really do take off they'll cost under $100dollars.
Kaasiim
March 18, 2009 at 9:31am
If they're gonna run the same redicelous DRM B.S. that kindle is using on this thing, then they can keep this peice of crap to themselves.
there is just no point in releasing something like this if its made overly difficult to use. the company would be wasting money creating something that nobody is going to use.Releasing it at a price point of around 1,000 US dollars also reeks of fail. I'm seriously hoping that the price is drastically reduced soon or we will have yet another brilliant peice of technology rendered useless due to plain and simple greed.
Tekzel
March 21, 2009 at 7:30am
Early adoption of new stuff is always super expensive.The price always goes down as more players get into the game, I think this is the first signs of more players, just give it time. One day you will be able to pick up an e-book for under 200 bucks.
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