Two new e-book readers appear - no much information
By Paul Biba
Engadget is reporting on two new readers. The first is the Mentor, which seems to be a Russian product. The Russian site is here.
The second is from Samsung, the Papyrus, and will be launched in Korea with a possible US introduction later. Seems to have a touch screen, but only 512 Meg of memory and no memory card slot.
March 25th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
You’ve got it all backwards (though with it’s not hard with all the rumor mill going on).
Mentor is the name of the upcoming line of readers from Astak (a US company currently selling rebranded Jinke Hanlin V3 as EZ Reader in US) which will be based on units produced by Taiwanese Netronix (e.g. Bookeen Cybook3 is rebranded Netronix EB-600). The device on the photo is a prototype shown by _Ukrainian_ company Pocketbook (they also sell a customized version of EB-600). However, Bookeen came out and claimed that they have exclusive rights on that design. PocketBook gave in and said they will change the design for their device.
We’ll probably never know all the details, but so far it seems Netronix worked with all three companies (PocketBook, Astak, Bookeen) for the 5″ design and somehow promised exclusive rights to both PocketBook and Bookeen.
March 25th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Oh, the device will be likely named either Pocketbook 201 or Pocketbook 360°. Bookeen did not announce any plans yet (Cybook 4?).