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Review: Sony Touch Edition, Pocket Edition (PRS-350, PRS-650)

November 28th, 2010 · 8 Comments · hardware reviews

Sony announced this pair of e-reader in September 2010, and at long last I am posting my review. The Touch Edition and Pocket Edition are updates to Sony’s existing 5″ and 6″. Their design is an evolutionary improvement, and not revolutionary. (I really wish they’d get ahead of their competition, and I’ll get into that [...]

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Inaugural Meeting of the Touch Screen Haters Club

September 20th, 2010 · No Comments · humor

At first I was just going to post the image, but then I read the related post. Go read their post on who can’t use touchscreens. It’s funny. via Agent-X Comics

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Sony Touch Edition has been discontinued!

August 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news

At least, that’s the product status reported by B&H Photo. You usually only see “discontinued” when a retailer tries to order more and is told it won’t be available. Of course, at this point it’s not really that much of a surprise, is it? We already knew about the new models. via Mike Cane

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ONEXT Touch & Read 001 e-reader coming to Russia

August 8th, 2010 · No Comments · benq, hardware news

So I cam across another distributor of the BenQ QD060B00.  ONEXT are a Hong Kong based consumer electronics company with a pretty hefty presence in Russia (that’s where they will be selling this e-reader ). This is the same e-reader I’ve shown you before. It has a Sipix screen, Wifi, browser, microSD card slot, and [...]

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Sony Touch Edition Review

April 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware reviews

by Gareth Cuddy of Direct eBooks So, I finally bit the bullet and got a Sony 600 yesterday. I know, I know, I’m way behind the times, but the reason I hadn’t splashed out previously is because I am so happy with my “old” Sony, the PRS-505. Its reliable, has great screen quality and sits [...]

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iBooks coming to iPhone, iPod Touch

April 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Apple, hardware news, software news

From the Apple press release: Apple® today previewed its iPhone® OS 4 software and released a beta version of the software to iPhone Developer Program members. The iPhone OS 4 beta release includes an updated Software Development Kit (SDK) with over 1,500 new Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and over 100 new features that will be [...]

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