Yes, this is another 7″ Android tablet. It has a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, multitouch screen, 8GB Flash storage, SD Card slot, accelerometer, 3MP Camera, and Wi-Fi. It’s going to go on sale this Monday (08/30) at 300,000 Won (~$254) or free with a monthly data plan. via Akihabara News
Entries from August 29th, 2010
The dangers of enhanced ebooks
August 29th, 2010 · 6 Comments · opinion
I was exchanging emails today with Moriah Jovan and she remarked on the cost of licensing music. This reminded me of an article I read on Techdirt a couple days ago. I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere, so I thought it worth a post. Everyone’s talking about how they want to see enhanced ebooks, and [...]
Paper.li – a new way to get your news
August 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · software news
I want to share a new information hunting technique I learned this week. I’m sure you know about Twitter, the 140 char microblogging service. I just found a new way to organize and find the tweets that you’re interested in: paper.li. It actually launched a couple months ago, but it was only in the past [...]
Pocketbook, Sony dominate the Russian e-reader market
August 29th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
Research firm J’son & Partners Consulting have estimated that around 440k e-readers will be sold in 2010 in Russia. They just released a report in which they reported that sales in 2007 were measured in the thousands, around 60k e-readers were sold in 2008, and in 2009 about 250k devices were sold. According to their [...]
Review: Kogan e-reader
August 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Gajah Reviews, hardware reviews
by Darryl Adams reposted with permission from Oz-e-books Editor’s Note: The OEM for this e-reader is Gajah. Kogan is a brand that forgoes brick and mortar retail and sells its product only via the internet. Known for its TV and other consumer products, this is its first e-book release.
Enhanced Kindle Edition format uses HTML5 tags
August 29th, 2010 · 4 Comments · ebook format
You probably recall that a couple months ago Amazon announced an updated Kindle app for iOS. The new app gave you the ability to play audio and video that were embedded in books like Nixonland. I’ve been waiting to hear back from Amazon PR about the tools to make the new ebooks (and the file [...]
Kindle 3 wireless speed test – 3G vs WiFi
August 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware reviews
Len Edgerly, host of the Kindle Chronicles podcast, compares the speed of 3G vs WiFi on a pair of Kindle 3s set up with identical configuration except for the wireless connection. Both are set to enable Java and Images, and cookies and history were cleared before the test. WiFi at the cottage in Ocean Park, [...]
Cruz Reader hands on (video)
August 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news
Velocity Micro have just let a gadget blog get a first peak at the Cruz Reader, a 7″ Android tablet. Do you remember when I first posted about this tablet and I said that this looked a lot like the white Novel? I was right. There isn’t that much in the way of new detail, [...]
Sigmatek to launch 5″, 7″ e-readers at IFA-Berlin
August 27th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
I’ve just heard about a pair of new e-readers from the French electronics company, SigmaTek Computers. Details are still sparse, but I do know that the e-readers will have LCD screens with 800×480 resolution, a 600MHz CPU,as well as decent video and audio support. Ebook support will include Epub PDF, and TXT; no word yet [...]
Calibre 0.7.16 now available, adds K3 support
August 27th, 2010 · No Comments · software news
New Features Driver for the Kindle 3 Users can now customize what actions appear in the toolbar and context menus via Preferences->Interface->Toolbars Draw a thin broder around the cover in the edit metadata dialog. Create (almost) all temporary files in a subdirectory so as not to clutter up temp directory FB2 Output: Add option to [...]
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