Hands-On: Spring Design's Dual-Screen Android Alex eBook Reader
Posted 11/03/09 at 01:30:00 PM by Gordon Mah Ung
The capacitive LCD touchscreen runs the full Android OS, including support for UI customization, photo galleries, and full-color video playback. When you read an ebook, the interface lets you quickly skip around to any page, using an on-screen slide bar. An on-screen keyboard also makes text entry practical.
One downside is that the Alex is noticably thicker than the Kindle -- the added heft needed for the second screen and bigger battery.
Alex is expected to be available by the end of this year.
Marvell also showed off an even smaller Star Trek PADD-sized eBook. The device was just a mockup, but Marvell officials say the size is quite possible given the smaller foot print of its new ARMADA 166E chip. The company said it expects eBook readers in the next year to dip to near the $100 level as volumes ramp up and OEMs realize the savings from using the ARMADA 166E.
why aren't they making a
Submitted by jrocknyc on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 5:53pm
why aren't they making a device that opens like a book, but with a 4x6 e-ink page on the left and a 4x6 color page on the right?! is this not a painfully obvious way to do a "book", with it opening like one? DAMN.
Submitted by JoshVaughan on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 12:09am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh7PC3CiAFA
Submitted by Caboose on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 11:29am
I would be quite excited to see the PADD come to life. However, for it to become practical and useful during all times of the day regardless of where you are, a world wide wireless network would have to be implimented, and I don't see that happening any time soon...
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