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Entourage forced me to register my Pocket Edge, and other irritations

April 16th, 2011 · 16 Comments · opinion

The Entourage Pocket Edge has been on sale this past week on Amazon for half off, and I can never resist a sale. So I bought one. This is Entourage’s second, smaller dual screen netbook with 6″ E-ink screen and a 7″ LCd screen. It’s a lot smaller and light than the original and yet [...]

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Entourage Pocket Edge now available from HSN.com

October 31st, 2010 · 3 Comments · hardware news

Now isn’t this a surprise. The Home Shopping Network have beat out BestBuy, Walmart, and Amazon to be the first retailer with the new Pocket Edge. This is the new smaller model with a 7″ LCD screen and a 6″ E-ink screen. Aside from the screens, it has much the same specs and abilities as [...]

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First look at the Entourage Pocket Edge (video)

October 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware reviews, video

Ereaders.nl just posted a Youtube video with the first hands on demo of the Pocket Edge. It’s in Dutch, of course. Yes, they did beat me to it. But TBH, I didn’t try to get a video. The hardware is interesting, but it has all the same abilities as the larger version.

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CUNY to launch Entourage Edge pilot program

October 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · press release

From the press release: enTourage Systems, Inc. announced today that it is working with the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, a senior college of  The City University of New York (CUNY), for a semester-long pilot program with the enTourage eDGe. Students in the Introduction to Drawing and Technology Applications in Public Management and Criminal [...]

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Scoop: First look at the Pocket Edge!

September 17th, 2010 · 5 Comments · hardware news

A friend tipped me to this photo from Yahoo News this morning. Apparently a couple weeks ago the Governor of California toured the Marvell headquarters. And of course he was accompanied by the press. One detail that no one noticed at the time was that Marvell had all of their partner’s devices on display. One [...]

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Entourage to release Pocket Edge in November

August 17th, 2010 · 3 Comments · hardware news

iPhoneArena got their hands on Verizon’s device schedule for the second half of 2010. Guess what was listed for November: Sometime during the second or third week of November, Big Red is said to push the Launch button for the enTourage eDGe (a dual-screen e-reader + tablet Android device), as well as an enTourage Pocket [...]

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Entourage Edge has been rooted!

August 15th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news

It didn’t take that long to accomplish, surprisingly. Entourage posted the source code for the Edge on Friday. By Saturday afternoon developers at Android Police figured out how to root the Edge. For full details visit Android Police. So why is it important? For the average user, it really doesn’t matter. But this is an [...]

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Entourage Edge to be sold by Best Buy

July 12th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news

The product page for is now live, but it’s not yet in stock.  I would guess that this will be an online only item. Also, it looks like Best Buy will only sell the Edge in Midnight Blue. I think it might be worthwhile to purchase the Edge from Best Buy just for the sake [...]

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Entourage Edge got an update – Buy Now

June 4th, 2010 · 4 Comments · hardware news, hardware reviews

Entourage released this update last Tuesday. Between one thing and another I didn’t get a chance to try it until Wednesday. I’ve spent the last couple days playing with it, and I’m thrilled. They fixed a number of bugs in this update, and they tweaked several programs so they run better. But the mot important [...]

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Entourage Edge coming to Europe in July

June 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news

I’ve just gotten word (via MobileRead) that the Edge will be available in Europe in July.  Here’s the email one member got from Entourage: Thanks for your email and interest in enTourage eDGe. We will start the official distribution in Europe at the beginning of July. However I can offer you the possibility to pre-order [...]

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