What a day! Here’s a little recap of what went down in Vegas today. Tomorrow I’ll have someone on the ground (read: my dad is at the show) to give me hands on impressions, but for now (in chronological order), announcements and initial impressions from around the web!
Havnon demonstrated their ereader device, which is available in OEM form for third parties (Engadget)
Qualcomm’s Mirasol low-power color screen shown playing video (Engadget
The HP Slate goes wah wah waaaaaah (biggest let down of the show so far; it just runs Windows) (Engadget)
Lots of positive press for the Entourage eDGe! (PC Pro)
Release date and pricing info for the eDGe (Engadget)
Hands-on and video demo of a dual LCD screen tablet concept from MSI (Engadget)
Ray Kurtzweil’s Blio book distribution framework demonstrated (Engadget)
Another look at Blio from mediabistro
Samsung’s first ebook devices for the US market go hands-on (Engadget)
Spring Design gives Alex a fighting chance by dropping the price already (Engadget)
RCA takes hardware from Audiovox and software from Barnes & Noble for their ereader (Engadget)
Plastic Logic shows off the versatile QUE proReader aimed squarely at business users (Engadget)
Fujitsu proves that e-ink can be in color! (Engadget) The Japanese are way ahead when it comes to this, Bridgestone also has compelling color e-ink tech coming
The Skiff gets quite possibly the best review of any ereader hardware so far (Engadget)
The first device to sport a Pixel Qi screen, the Notion Ink Adam, finally shows up (Engadget)
Copia intros ereader devices and social media platforms (Engadget)
Which devices are you most looking forward to? Leave it in the comments!“Tidal” is right. With six new readers announced simultaneously (three of which are actually pretty attractive), Copia mentions having a social networking aspect to their devices. Hopefully we can get some more detail on that.
