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iriver Cover Story now £99 at Waterstones

March 10th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news

Yesterday I found the iriver Story on sale, and today I discovered that iriver’s other e-reader, the Cover Story, is on sale at Waterstones for only £99. That’s £50 off the previous retail. This e-reader is based on a 6″ E-ink screen, and it has a touchscreen, Wifi, 2GB Flash storage, a SD card slot, [...]

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WHSmith now have the iriver Story Wifi on sale

March 9th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news

The iriver Story Wifi is on clearance right now at WHSmith. It’s been , marked down to £99.99, which is about half off the previous retail price of £199. For comparison, the Kindle Wifi is selling for £112 right now. This Kindle clone comes with a 6″ Pearl E-ink screen, 2 GB Flash, and a [...]

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Engadget got a visit from the iriver Story HD

January 8th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news

So it turns out that the Story HD was at CES 2011, only the iriver rep managed to zig while I zagged. Luckily he stopped by the Engadget trailer and they shot a video. They certainly seemed by the increased screen resolution on this pre-production unit. It’s supposed to hio retail shelves in May.

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iriver Story HD does exist

January 6th, 2011 · 2 Comments · hardware news, press release

This is just a brief not to mention that I found the press release for the new Story HD. It basically confirms the news story I showed you last week. I still do not know if this e-reader is actually at CES. The Story HD was not at the LG press conference today and iriver [...]

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LG Display, iriver to demo new e-reader at CES?

December 29th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news

I’m still not sure this one is for real. There was a news story on the Korean business blog AsiaE a few days ago which talked about the iriver Story HD, the new e-reader that LG Display and iriver were going to show off at CES next week. This e-reader is supposed to have a [...]

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Iriver Cover Story now in stock at Waterstone’s – £129.99

November 17th, 2010 · 3 Comments · hardware news

iriver’s latest e-reader, the Cover Story, is now in stock at Waterstone’s . The Cover Story is based on a 6″ E-ink touch screen, and it has 2GB Flash, a SD card slot, accelerometer, stylus, and support for Adobe DE DRM. The base model is now selling for £129.99, and the model with Wifi is [...]

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iriver Cover Story hits the FCC

October 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news

This is a good piece of news for a Friday. The paperwork for iriver’s second gen e-reader just showed up in the FCC database today. I’m hoping this means we’ll see it in the US. There’s not much in the way of new details, though. We already knew that the Cover Story had a 6″ [...]

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iriver Cover Story hands on video

October 6th, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news, video

The folks behind the iriver Story blog shot this video of the new Cover Story. Aside from the fact he speaks to fast, it’s pretty good. You might want to click through and watch it in HD on Youtube.

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New firmware out for the iriver Cover Story

October 5th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news

Good news for both of you who own a Cover Story. Iriver released an update. It was just released yesterday. The main feature added in this firmware update is support for IMAP email accounts. It also includes a new calibration routine for the touch screen. iriver

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iriver Cover Story hands on videos

September 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news, video

These videos was shot at IFA-Berlin by Charbax of ArmDevices.net. The second video shows the Cover Story using Wifi to visit the WHSmiths ebookstore.

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