Just as expected, Amazon has announced a “plus sized” Kindle dubbed as the Kindle DX. Here’s a pair of hands-on videos showcasing this new Kindle e-book reader from Amazon. Based on the first impressions, aside from the larger size and a slightly better performing keyboard, this new Kindle DX isn’t really that different from [...]
Continue reading...4. May 2009
Online giant Amazon has bigger plans for the Kindle. If the e-Book reader is going to change publishing forever, first thing it’s got to do is change itself… or just keep changing until publishing gets the drift and changes with you. The word is that it’s going to be a bigger screen Kindle. It’s a [...]
Continue reading...22. April 2009
If 720p video support is not enough for you Cube, the company that gave us the B52HD, gives us an HD PMP that supports 1080i video ouput, the first PMP we’ve heard of that can. Cube hasn’t announced a price for the H100HD yet but from the looks and features, I’m not so sure this [...]
Continue reading...12. March 2009
Nurian’s got to be proud of its new e-Dic, the X40Kris, categorized as a premium pocket dictionary, Between the X40Kris and the recently announced Dicple D31, it’s obvious which has the nicer hardware. Next to all e-Dic models out there, the X40Kris is a veritable MacBook Air in the e-Dic division, that is. Only 21.3mm [...]
Continue reading...12. March 2009
The PMP-e-Dctionary models from iRiver makes us very curious. We don’t know how successful the iRiver Dicple is in Korea and Japan, where it’s available, but the couple or so Dicple eDictionaries I’ve seen owned by Korean friends have mildly impressed me. I’m sure I’d rather go for UMID’s M1 mBook, which seems to have [...]
Continue reading...11. March 2009
I’m a fan of Wattpad and have two years of pleasant memories of the eBook service on my Nokia Nseries phones. And now they have good news for iPhone and iPod Touch users: you can download Wattpad via the App Store, available today. Wattpad is a free application and the site itself offers a ton of [...]
Continue reading...28. February 2009
Here’s another e-book reader that tries to take a stab at the Kindle 2, the Onyx Boox. It also comes with a 6-inch 16 shades of gray capable display but ups the ante by making it a touchscreen in lieu of the lack of dedicated keys and controls on the device itself. It also [...]
Continue reading...28. February 2009
Not many may know this, but the Kindle wasn’t actually the first full-sized e-book reader to be released. The Nuut was. Unfortunately, when the Kindle was outed back in 2007, it clearly showed its supremacy over the Nuut, and with a well-recognized company such as Amazon selling it, the Kindle was hands-down the king of [...]
Continue reading...9. February 2009
Amazon is now accepting orders for their brand new Kindle 2. It’s thinner than ever measuring just over 1/3 of an inch, and weighs just 10.2 ounces. It boasts of improves of a 25% more battery life, 20% faster page turns, and now supports 16 shades of gray for better text and image display as [...]
Continue reading...9. February 2008
The Eee PC just got a lot better. A reader and Eee enthusiast in the Philippines managed to hack an FBReader into the Eee PC. The FBReader is a free e-Book reader for devices running Unix/ Windows. You can find it in PDAs and smartphones as well. On full-screen mode, the FBReader looks like [...]
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6. May 2009
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