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Barnes & Noble Announce The Full Touchscreen Nook Color, Now Try And Say “Ooh”

Stefan Etienne — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:54:05 +0000

The Nook Color, Barnes & Noble’s new nook revealed today in NYC, will be broken down for your easy reading pleasure: it’s based off Android, uses a 7-inch IPS touchscreen with 1024 x 600 resolution at 169 pixels per inch, has 8GB of built-in storage and micro-SD card that can support up to 32GB slot, a 3.5mm headphone jack, Wi-Fi b/g/n (not 3G at all), micro USB port, and will support several third-party apps such as Pandora, Chess, a media player, and a kid’s eBookStore. It all costs $249 and ships November 19th. Via: Barnes & Noble

Amazon Launches New Thin, Light Kindle with Wi-Fi, Starting At $139

Stefan Etienne — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:57:37 +0000

The successor to the Amazon Kindle 2 — in other words — thinner, lighter, less expensive, and Wi-Fi enabled, with the same 6-inch screen but with 50% better contrast and a 21% smaller footprint with 20% faster page turns. There’s also double the built-in memory — 4GB. The pricing is $189 for Wi-Fi plus 3G model and $139 Wi-Fi only.

To double on the new improvements and features, Amazon loaded an experimental Webkit browser that takes a millennium to load and provides only one form of salvation — an article mode which formats articles to be exactly like the eBooks on the reader. The new Kindle starts pre-ordering today.

Source: Amazon

Borders launches online eBook Store powered by Kobo

Stefan Etienne — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:45:38 +0000

Borders has launched itself into the frying pan and into the fire. No, really. The rough eBook market is no place for newcomers, and Borders just got into it with its eBook Store powered by Kobo with Blackberry and Android apps also taking part in the fray. Once you do purchase an eBook from Borders, you can read it on your PC or Mac, as well as your iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry, or Android-powered mobile phone.

And what’s a new eBook service without a dedicated eBook reader? the Kobo eReader which includes a 6-inch e-ink screen, support for flexible fonts, desktop syncing, bluetooth syncing with a smartphone, 1GB storage and a 4-way d-pad with center selection will be available at retail and online stores. Check out the new Borders site to take a look at everything yourself.

Source: Borders

Kindle for Android launches on the Android Market

Stefan Etienne — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:35:26 +0000

The Kindle for Android app is to say the least the best reader app you’ll find on an Android phone, much like the iPhone 4 and the iBooks app. Starting today, Android 1.6 users and up can have full access to the app and browse through or download 600,000 of Amazon’s full eBook cataloge. The full bummer here though is that you can’t view or purchase Amazon’s newspapers, magazines, an blog databases. That’s a real failure, if you ask me .But still, this will deserve a nice space on your homescreen now, won’t it?

Alex eReader now on sale for $399 in US, ships in mid-April, 3G coming soon

Stefan Etienne — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:03:52 +0000

For those of you interested in Android eReaders, then look no further than the Nook, and now the Alex eReader. Available for pre-order at $399 in th US, this little guy supports EPUB, PDF, HTML and TXT formats, all running on top of Android. Spring Design claims that pre-order units will ship no later than mid-April.

The Spring design Alex e-reader also boasts a 6″ EPD screen and a full color 3.5″ Android-based touchscreen LCD, full Web browsing over WiFi, watch videos and communicate with contacts, all the while downloading eBooks. There are also a small number of original Google apps available on the Alex.

As for the electronic bookstore, the Alex connects to Google’s, which houses more than 1 million titles, and also supports any eBook that in turn support Adobe DRM. Footprint wise the Alex is 4.7″ by 8.9″ and is less than a half inch deep, with a microSD card slot that goes up to 32GB. The Alex can also be updated via Wi-Fi, has USB 2.0, headphones, AC/USB power connector and a padded cover.

Source: CrunchGear