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Kno getting out of the tablet business?

February 21st, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware rumors, opinion

There’s a rumor going around today that Kno, makers of a dual screen educational tablet, is planning to get out of the tablet business and focus solely on software. No, wait. I was wrong. They’ve never actually shipped tablets so I don’t think they’re really in the tablet business. But the rumor is going around, [...]

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What happened to the Kno?

February 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news

Engadget are reporting that the Kno, a dual screen tablet , has been delayed. There’s no word yet from the company on the cause of the delay, but Engadget did get this statement out if them: Things at Kno are going well. However, as you noted below, there has been a shipment delay. As soon [...]

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Kno tablet clears the FCC

December 10th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news

This actually happened yesterday, but I was overwhelmed with other things and couldn’t get to it. Kno sent both the single and dual screen tablets through the FCC and they popped up yesterday. I’m a little surprised; they’re running kinda late. It ships in only a few weeks. I’m also surprised that you can get [...]

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Kno tablets get pricing, Preorders start

November 9th, 2010 · No Comments · press release

From the press release: November 9, 2010 – Kno, Inc., a powerful, groundbreaking tablet textbook designed specifically for students and the education market, today revealed the price of its 14.1 inch single and dual-screen tablets at $599 and $899, respectively.  The company also announced that it is now accepting a limited number of pre-orders for [...]

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First reports of the Kno in the wild

November 8th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news

Kno is going to announce the price of their tablets tomorrow, so I thought I’d get this out while it’s still fresh. Over the past couple months, Kno (it’s both the company’s and the device’s name) have been beta testing their device on university campuses around San Francisco. These pictures were taken on the  campuses [...]

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Kno to announce price and availabilty tomorrow

November 8th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news

This was posted on their blog a few minutes ago. We get asked about pricing hundreds of times a day….

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Kno dual-screen tablet to drop second screen

September 27th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news

Know issued a press release today announcing a new model for their textbook platform. They plan to offer a single screen 14″ tablet alongside the dual screen Kno. (They really need to come up with some product names.) My guess is that they finally realized the market for a dual screen tablet that weighs 6 [...]

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Kno promo video

September 10th, 2010 · No Comments · video

Wired posted the following promo video a couple days ago. It’s not new. Kno uploaded it on Vimeo about 3 months back. Still, I hadn’t posted it here yet, and what with the $46m USD in financing they raised this week I thought this would be a good time. There really isn’t any new detail [...]

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Hands on with the Kno (from the D8 conference)

August 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · video

At long last All Things Digital have uploaded the a video of the presentation where the Kno was first announced. The video apparently doesn’t make it through the RSS feed. Click here if you want to see it.

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D8: Kno reveal their dual 14″ screen e-reader

June 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · conferences & trade shows, hardware news

All Things Digital is throwing their 8th annual tech conference this week, and the high point of the con was today’s keynote presentation by Kno. Kno was there to show off their digital textbook platform. It’s a dual screen Linux tablet with 2 14″ LCD screens. It weighs in at 5.5 pounds, and has Bluetooth [...]

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