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2 New Elonex e-reader videos from IFA – Copia fans take note

September 6th, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows, hardware reviews, video

IFA-Berlin is still in full wing today and the videos are still coming. Sidenote: There was also a Boox 60S video. I added it to the post announcing the Bebook Club. The first video shows the Elonex 500EB. The Elonex rep holding it really knows what he’s doing. I learned a number of things from [...]

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Pocketbook IFA press conference

September 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows, pocketbook

This is another video by Charbax of ArmDevices.net. This event is in English and it’s about 30 minutes long. At about 14:00 you can see a live demo of the PB 902. It now has a desktop with widgets that you can swap out. At about 17:00 they demo the TTS. Q&A begins at about [...]

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Elonex demoed 6 tablets at IFA Berlin

September 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · conferences & trade shows, hardware news

Pocket-lint stopped by the booth today and snapped some photos of 6 of the new gadgets. Pocket-lint didn’t get much detail in the way of specs, but they do know that the new line will retail from £99 to £159. The £159 is for a 10.1 Android tablet. The keyboard/case is an extra £39. The [...]

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Archos will demo 5 new tablets at IFA

August 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news

Fortunately for us, they’re already on the Archos website. I’m going to pass on the 2 tiny tablets for the moment, and just cover the 3 larger ones. I don’t think of the 2.8″ and 3.4″ devices as tablets. They’re PDAs or PMPs or something. If they are tablets then so is the iPod Touch.

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Acer to launch LumiRead at IFA Berlin

August 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news

Johannes of Lesen.net is reporting that Acer’s 6″ Kindle clone will be formally launched next week. His source isn’t named, but he was told that the 3G model will be sold for 250€ in Germany in October. Update: It’s been confirmed. The LumiRead will be sold by libre.de, who will also be providing the ebookstore. [...]

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