Mike Cane found this oddity on Youtube. It’s a basic 6″ e-reader from Serioux, a consumer electronics company based in Europe.
There’s no mention of price or availability.
Here are the specs:
• CPU : SAMSUNG 400MHz
• Screen : 6 inch, E-Ink Resolution: 800(H)*600(V)
• 4 level grayscale
• Format support: TXT, PDF, JPG, BMP, MP3
• Operation System : Linux 2.6
• Storage Media : SD Memory card (up to 8GB capacity)
• Flash : 128MB Flash
• Ram : 64MB SDRAM
• I/O : USB mini 5pin connector
• 2.5inch stereo audio out jack
• Battery : Rechargeable Lithium Polymer, 1320mA, 3.7V
• Dimension : 188x120x9.5mm
While I haven’t seen this e-reader before, I can say that I think it’s a Netronix design. Watch the video and look at the location of the SD card slot, power button, battery panel, d-pad, and USB port. All of those features are in almost the exact same place as on any Netronix clone (Kobo e-reader, for example).
This e-reader has extra buttons so I wonder if it is a knock off. On the other hand, the hardware specs are rather low. Anyone trying to copy Netronix would have made improvements.
Here’s an unboxing video:
RSS
Email
Facebook
Twitter
Ha! You’ve never seen that before? Surprised I found something you haven’t! I was thinking Netronix too when I looked at it.
They’re selling this wonder in Spain, too. It’s called SPCinternet 5500 (yeah!)
http://www.zonaebook.com/ficha/spcinternet-5500?quicktabs_2=1#quicktabs-2
(click on videos: there’s a video)
This seems like a budget e-book reader judging on the features (only txt and pdf? really now…), and its price – they’re selling it here in Romania for about 115 euros, whereas other readers start at 185 euros.
I can’t recommend it. Its useless to me, too slow and buggy. (@teel it has mp3 support as well, not that I would care since I can’t read on it)