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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New York Times: The Bookstore’s Last Stand
Barnes & Noble is trying to strike at Amazon with another device. At its labs in Silicon Valley last week, engineers were putting final touches on their fifth e-reading device, a product that executives said would be released sometime this spring. (A Barnes & Noble spokeswoman declined to elaborate.)
I wonder what that could be?
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A few months back Sony released a new version of their reading app for Android tablets, only they did a rather odd thing: it was only available for Sony’s new tablets.
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One of my readers was asking my opinion today about an ebook reader that he wants to buy, and he ran into a problem. Andrew was looking at getting a cheap Delstar OpenBook. It’s not a very good ereader, and now that the company is dead (okay, there are 2 problems with this device).
But the real problem with the OpenBook is that it doesn’t support DRM. There’s not anything you can do bout that, so your choices are to either learn how to remove the DRM or find sources of DRM-free ebooks. (But explaining how to remove DRM is topic for another post.)
So you need to find DRM-free ebooks. Luckily there is already a list of ebookstores and free ebook sites over on MobileRead. I’m not sure how complete it is, but it’s start.
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A rumor broke the week before CES that the WiiU was going to get an app and possibly a content store. The rumor was rather thin but there was a mention of Nintendo possibly selling and giving away gaming guides as well as having an ebookstore.
Naturally I was deeply interested in the rumor and I made time to meet with Nintendo and get a look at the WiiU. CES is a few weeks gone now, but my impressions of the WiiU controller are as fresh now as they were then.
The controller is not an ereader nor is it a tablet. But I can foresee that if you own one you will do at least some reading on it.
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I’d like to thank everyone who entered the contests earlier this week. Surprisingly, more people wanted the USB backup battery than other prize.( I would have gone for the backpack, myself.)
3 of the 4 prizes have shipped. The 4th has not because the winner never responded to my email. Since I have not heard back from the winner of the flashlight, I plan to run the raffle again and pick another name.
BTW, I also decided to add one of the E-ink capsule balls to each prize. Surprise.
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It’s been just over 2 months since the Kindle Fire shipped, and it has already turned the world upside down.
The market research firm Flurry released some startling stats today. They’re following up on their news about the spike in new Android and iOS gadgets over Christmas.
According to their tracking data, the Kindle now accounts for 36% of all Android tablet activity in January. That’s more than any other tablet, including the Samsung Galaxy Tab.
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You’ve seen a pop-up book before right (a paper one, that is)? Here is the digital equivalent.
Over the past couple years a number of publishers have been experimenting with augmented reality apps. Do you know how movie makers can add CGI to film and insert imagined creatures in among the real actors? In augmented reality, you can do that in real time with your webcam.
Check out the video below. This is something that is easier to show than say.
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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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