While we might have been waiting for the 9-inch DR-950, at least we got the DR-900 announced at CeBIT in Germany, a 9-inch eBook reader with Wi-Fi and a 3G option, as well as a purported battery life of 10,000 eBook pages. It also includes a 1024 x 768 resolution on a Sipix panel, making it better than e-ink, 3.5 mm headset jack, support for PDF, TXT, MP3, and ePUB files, and an included 4GB of storage. No price or release date yet, but so far it looks pretty good. Now where’s the ebook store for this thing ASUS? Remember no e-reader in the U.S will succeed if it doesn’t have a bookstore of some sort, like the Nooks, or the Kindles of this world, otherwise, we can pretty much end this here, right now.
Yes, it’s the Apple iPad. A tablet, which looks like a big iPod Touch. Are you surprised? It’s a “very thin” device at 0.5-inches, as according to Steve Jobs, runs iPhone OS, and you can now add desktop backgrounds to your homescreen. Multimedia is one of the main features of the iPad; watching movies, the full iTunes Store, access to YouTube, in HD, an awesome Email experience, improved Calendar, iPhoto, Maps, an e-reading app called iBooks, iWork for the iPad which has a new UI, and a giant on-screen QWERTY keyboard. The Apple iPad’s screen size is 9.7-inches, and has the same home button a la iPod Touch or iPhone. As for old iPhone apps, it can run them out-of-the box, because you can now make an app go fullscreen. Read on to see what makes the iPad awesome and its press release.
