Mike Cane found this monstrosity on Youtube a few hours ago. You’re looking at a cheap generic Chinese tablet (Shanzhai) running a hacked version of iOS. Performance is bad, but it’s actually not the worst experience I’ve seen.
Entries from November 26th, 2010
iOS hacked to run on a Shanzhai tablet (video)
November 26th, 2010 · 3 Comments · hardware news, video
Bol.com to ship Samsung Galaxy w\ own ebookstore app
November 26th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: txtr, the Berlin based leading provider of eReading solutions and bol.com, the largest online shop in the Netherlands, have teamed up to accelerate the booming Dutch eBook market. From the middle of November every Samsung Galaxy tablet and smartphone sold by bol.com will feature a preinstalled eBook bol.com store powered by [...]
Open Office gets new name & home – LibreOffice
November 26th, 2010 · No Comments · ebook tools, press release
This story is actually a couple weeks old, but I think it’s important. The Document Foundation have officially announced the v3.3 beta release of LibreOffice,the next generation of Open Office. The Document Foundation is about documents and the associated software is pivotal to create, exchange, modify, share and print documents”, says Thorsten Behrens, a software [...]
Tags:home·libreoffice·office·open
Maylong M-150 is more useful than I thought
November 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · humor
A few weeks ago I reviewed the Maylong M-150, a truly awful 7″ Android tablet that was being sold by Walgreen’s for $99. Earlier today I came across another review of the M-150, and I’m ashamed to say that the reviewers found many more ways to use it than I ever could. They documented their [...]
Amazon, B&N are in the middle of an e-reader price war TODAY
November 25th, 2010 · 2 Comments · sales
I wasn’t planning to do another BFS post, but one of my readers pointed out that B&N are selling refurbished Nook Wifi e-readers for $79. You can find them on Ebay, and they come with the standard 1 year warranty. I think I’m seeing a pattern here. The Nook shows up in a Best Buy [...]
Sony Reader coming to Japan on 10 December
November 25th, 2010 · 3 Comments · hardware news
I’m still looking for the original press release on this, but Bloomberg are reporting that: Sony Corp. will resume sales of its electronic-book readers in Japan for the first time since 2007 amid the growing popularity of digital publications. The e-reader will be available in local stores starting Dec. 10, Sony said in a statement [...]
To my Holiday visitors: Welcome!
November 25th, 2010 · 4 Comments · sales
You don’t know how reassuring it to find out that I’m not the only one using the computer to avoid my family on Thanksgiving Day. (kidding) But if you’re here today, you’re probably looking at Black Friday Sales. Let me point you at a couple posts I wrote last week, here and here, based on [...]
Disclosure
November 24th, 2010 · 3 Comments · blog maintenance
The Federal Trade Commission has established rules governing the ethical conduct of bloggers and journalists. As part of these rules, we are required to disclose material connections between myself, advertisers, sponsors and businesses that I have significant dealings with or that represent a material relationship.
Tags:disclosure
Creative Ziio 7″ Android tablet hits the FCC
November 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news
Creative’s new 7″ Android tablet popped up on the FCC website today. Much to my display, I haven’t covered this tablet before. Creative announced a pair of Android tablets several weeks ago. (Note that this was for Europe, not the US.) This is the smaller of the 2 models with a 7″ (800×480) screen, and [...]
New HTML5 reading app from iPulpFiction
November 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments · software news
The publisher of iPulpFiction just tipped me to the new browser based reading app, the iPulp eReader. Like HTML5, it’s a work in progress. Update: I reported a bug and they fixed it. Here are some of the features the iPulp eReader has: paged text page counting auto-hyphenation local font size & font face control [...]
Tags:app·html5·ipulpfiction·reading
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