Yes, that is the car company. (They’re more than just a car company; they’re a manufacturing conglomerate with quite a few product lines.) I’m used to finding strange stuff, but this time I think I outdid myself.
Hyundai announced 2 e-readers last week. The HYV-C700 and HYV-C600 have 7″ and 6″ LCD screens, which makes the C600 a rather odd beast. This is the first 6″ LCD screen I’ve seen in a long while (if ever).
I’m having trouble finding complete specs, but from what I can tell the C700 has a 7″ screen (800×480 resolution). It doesn’t appear to have Wifi or a touchscreen. But it does have good audio and video support (720p HD, RMVB, AVI, MPEG4, FLV, WMV, MP3, APE, FLAC, OGG) as well as decent ebook support (TXT , PDF , HTML , ePub ,FB2,PDB).
The C600 does have a touchscreen and the same format support. I don’t know the screen resolution, but I do know that it supports taking notes on the touch screen.
There’s no indication of price or availability, but Hyundai are planning to release several more e-readers, including at least one with a 5″ screen.
via MobRead
RSS
Email
Facebook
Twitter
Nice digging. So, these will be Pandigital Novel v2? Ha!
Interesting turn of events – does this mean the readers will become DRM agnostic? If enough non publishers/distributors develop readers, then the DRM becomes a barrier rather than an advantage
I wonder if these will come with a 10 year/100,000 book warranty
Good one.
JXD Crystal Book A21 PMP, e-reader | The Digital Reader // Sep 10, 2010 at 9:58 am
[...] that now includes some e-reader functions. I’m pretty sure this is the same hardware as the Hyundai 6″ e-reader that I showed you earlier this week. The similarity is [...]