Look at the screenshot. Guess which one is me?
Freescale has opened the polls for their 2012 Smart Mobile Device Pundits. You can vote once day until the 7th of February. Please go vote for me.
And remember, if you vote for anyone besides me someone, somewhere, will be required to buy a Sharper Image Literati. And they’ll be forced to like it, too.
You don’t want that to happen, do you?
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Did you catch the story on Consumerist today about someone’s Kindle that was stolen during shipment? I hope you didn’t take it too seriously, because at least half of the story is fiction. The tale told on Consumerist doesn’t match with what my experiences with Amazon.
I’m going to clip a couple parts of the story and then I will explain why I don’t believe them. BTW, I don’t much like Amazon, but I hate it when people make things up just to attack a company.
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The good news about budget tablet makers like Skytex, Pandigital, and E-Fun moving on to better and more expnesive tablets is that it frees up the bottom rung for newcomers. Take Idolian, for example. They just unveiled the IdolPad, a $99 Android tablet running Gingerbread.
Given the specs it is decent tablet for the price.
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Here are a few stories that I am reading this morning.
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Do you recall all those stories about the new ereader that iriver was supposed to unveil at CES 2012? It turns out that they did launch a new device in their home market in South Korea; it’s just that they didn’t make fuss about it elsewhere.
BTW, this new device isn’t the touchscreen model that I saw at CES; it’s completely different.
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Have you heard of Booklr? This is a market research firm that is focused entirely on books. Sign up with their service and you can get pricing data on virtually any title published in the US.
Earlier this week they posted an infographic which compared the Top 100 titles in the Nook and Kindle stores. Amazon bet B&n in several ways, including lower average price ($6.48 vs $8.94), s well as having far more titles under $2 (35 vs zero). It’s fascinating comparison.
The infographic is after the break.
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If you’ve ever wondered bout the influence of book bloggers, here’s your answer.
Reed Exhibitions, operators of BEA, NY Comicon, and bunchaton of other trade shows and conferences, has just bought the Book Blogger Conference. This con had only been held twice and they’ve already become such valuable property that Reed snapped them up in order to integrate BBC with BEA. That’s the value of book bloggers.
From now on, the Book Blogger Con will be held during BEA, not after. In its first 2 events Book Blogger Con was co-located at the Javits Center, but it was conveniently held after BEA ended. Now it’s going to be held during BEA, and that means it’s going to conflict with other events. Drat.
On a related note, it looks like I won’t be attending BEA this year; it’s scheduled for the same time as SID Display Week. This is a screen tech conference and I need to go meet the tech companies just as much as I need to meet publishers.
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I don’t watch much TV anymore, so I missed this commercial when Asus first released it. But I’m glad I caught this parody. It’s funny.
Like a lot of gadget commercials, this video originally had a sappy narration. The parody is also narrated, only this time all the lines have been replaced by snarky comments.
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Toshiba has just unveiled their new ereader for the Japanese market, and it won’t be reading Epub.
The Bookplace DB50 is going to be a heavily modified 7″ tablet. It’ll have the same hi-res screen found on the NC and KF, along with Wifi, Bluetooth, and 8GB Flash storage. It looks to be running some disguised form of Linux or Android on 1GHz Freescale CPU. The press release doesn’t give any hints bout the OS, nd that suggests that it’s not accessible. Pity.
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A member of MobileRead tipped me to an ereader that I didn’t expect to see. Medion, a budget gadget maker in Europe, is now selling the Akoya P9212. You can find it on Amazon.de for 280 euros.
This is rather boring looking ereader with a 9″ screen, Wifi, 2GB Flash storage, microSD crd slot, headphone jack, and a touchscreen (capacitive, I believe).
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