Charbax was at a trade show last week when he came across this new e-reader. The B516 is an updated version of the existing N516. I’ve got one on my desk, and it has all the same buttons, only on the B516 they’ve been moved slightly. It’s supposed to be on the market some time [...]
Entries Tagged as 'shows'
Blackberry Playbook shows up at the FCC
March 10th, 2011 · No Comments · fcc, hardware news
Blackberry’s new tablet showed up on the FCC website today in 3 flavors: 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB. But it appears to be only the Wifi models, and for some odd reason they decided to show all 3 models (there was no need). via FCC
Tags:blackberry·fcc·playbook·shows
New Pandigital Novel shows up on QVC
March 9th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
Pandigital decided to surprise us today with a new Android tablet. Apparently they decided there weren’t enough Novel tablets out there, so they released this one. This Novel is black, obviously, but if you look closely you’ll see that the hardware looks a lot like the white Novel. In fact, I did a little digging [...]
Tags:pandigital·qvc·shows
Hanlin V60 shows up in Russia
March 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news, Sipix
The Ukrainian e-reader distributor Lbook have just unveiled their latest e-reader, the V60. This is a Kindle clone with a 6″ E-ink screen, Wifi, 2GB Flash storage, SD card slot, optional 3G, and a headphone jack. Format support includes FB2, EPUB, PDF, DOC, DJVU, RTF, TXT, HTML, PPT. A similar e-reader is already on the [...]
Pirated app shows up in the Mac Store and Apple don’t care
February 3rd, 2011 · 1 Comment · app store news
I just came across a blog post by Wolfire Games, an app developer. They recently uploaded their first game to the Mac Store, and much to their surprise a pirated copy was already in the store.
New Dell Duo clone shows up in China
December 6th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
Now that was fast. Newpad.cn got their hands on this new, still unnamed convertible tablet. (No, seriously, they have actual product photos, not just photoshops like the one at right.) This baby is based on a 8.9″ (1024×600) touchscreen with a 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 1GB RAM, camera, Wifi, and a 160GB HD. It’s running Win7, [...]
Aluratek’s new 7″ LCD e-reader shows up on HSN.com
December 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news
I just happened across the new Aluratek Libre Color eBook Reader on HSN.com for $190. This thing is based on a 7″ LCD and it has 2GB Flash, a SD card slot but no Wifi or touchscreen. It has broad audio and video support, and ebook support includes EPUB, PDF, TXT, FB2. I can’t tell [...]
Skytex Primer shows up at Walmart as the Ematics EB101P – $80
November 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news
I just came across another 7″ LCD e-reader on Walmart’s website (they have the best e-reader selection anywhere). You might recognize the hardware; I’ve reviewed it before as the Skytex Primer and apparently Skytex isn’t the only company to put their logo on it. It’s based on a 7″ LCD screen, and it has 4GB [...]
New LCD e-reader shows up in Russia
November 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news
The-eBook.org have the details on the Asistant Media AE-501, an e-reader based on a 5″ LCD screen with 2GB Flash, a microSD card slot, and broad ebook format support (TXT, DOC, PDB, PDF, EPUB, FB2, HTML, RTF, LRC, CHM and Djvu). The spec page also lists quite a few video formats supported (AVI, RMVB, RM, [...]
Scruffy Kitty app shows how not to launch an app
October 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · ipad app, opinion
Sometimes I like to discuss how people are doing their jobs, rather than what they are doing. A new children’s book app was launched today called Scruffy Kitty, and I almost didn’t post about it. A lot of apps are being launched lately, and the deciding factor on whether I write a post is how [...]
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