This is one I’ve been looking forward to for a long time. Plastic Logic has been showing brilliant tech demos of their e-ink tech for a long time, but this is the first time they’ve shown a consumer device.
Looking to be much more than an ereader, the QUE proReader handles all sorts of office input (literally, from Microsoft Office) and aims to be a single device for all day work in a business environment.
Finally, an ebook device that does a lot more than just ebooks!
Earlier today I touched upon the Entourage eDGe as a niche product for students, but this Wired article seems to disagree with me: this detailed hands on with the latest revision of the eDGe hardware seems to have nothing but love for the part netbook, part e-reader. I really love what Entourage is doing here. We’ll see how it stacks up against the myriad of announcements at CES!
Can they out Nook the Nook? It certainly looks like.
Funny thing about that of course is that Spring claims that B&N stole their design after an early potential partnership meeting, yet now that Nook has all the attention everybody is only ever going to view it as the other way around.
More sad than funny, really. The Alex seems to come out swinging, addressing the major issue with the Nook (the speed). Here’s hoping its price is compelling enough to really compete!
Flexible displays have been around for a while, but I’m pretty sure this is the first time they’ve putting one in a device intended for mass market consumption. They’ve definitely got the design down, it’s downright pretty!
Pretty much the only reason this is getting a mention here is so that I can keep track of it after CES; I’d be genuinely surprised if the screen on this remains a low power LCD after the trade show, what with new screen offerings from Plastic Logic, Pixel Qi and others being announced. Keeping an eye on this one.
For all of my qualms about E-ink, I really, really like the Sony Reader PRS-900 Daily Edition. I think the contnt agreements Sony are hammering out with libraries are a really neat approach to taking processes already proven and updating them to fit on newer technology.
This is actually one of the better looking designs I’ve seen get out of OEM phase from a Chinese manufacturer. The buttons on the right side don’t give me a whole lot of confidence in its ease of use, but so it goes.
