Brazilian ebook reader: better than the Kindle 2!!
By Paul Biba
Got this email from Eduardo Melo giving us more information about the Brazilian reader we mentioned here. To tell the truth, I really wish that this one was available here! WiFi, 3G, internal reading light, touch screen – it puts the Kindle 2 into the shade! Here’s the email:
My name is Eduardo Melo, i’m from Brazil, publisher from editoraplus.org. I read Teleread everyday, and I saw your post on the brazilian ereader the other day, and I found out more info on this device.
According to the product webpage, which is at http://www.leitord.com.br/, there will be really two devices. The specs are:
- 6’’ e-ink screen, 16 gray levels.
- Touch screen.
- QWERT keyboard.
- 8 Gb internal memory.
- Expansion slot up to 4 Gb.
- Bluetooth.
- Wi-Fi.
- 3G (with internal modem. Brazil uses GSM)
- USB.
- Internal reading light.
- Headphone.
- Batery: up to 8000 page flip
Supported files:
- BBeB Book, TXT, RTF, Adobe® PDF10, Ms® Word.
- Áudio: MP3
- Imagem: JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP
This is the premium version. According to their website, the basic one don’t have internal light, comes with 1GB internal memory and don’t come with 3G internal modem.
They also have some pictures of the device, but they don’t show all the borders of it, that could enable us to see more technical details. But the pictures allow us to see an USB port, at the right side of it.
They claim the device will be able to search content over Internet, and allow academics to share and even create content and school tests, directly from within Mix Leitor D. Well, if they really lauch such device, here in Brazil, it’ll shake the editorial market here. I’m a publisher of free, new e-books here. Many journalists here call us, the ones who likes e-books, as “Digital Deluded”… so I think some national effort for e-books will be great. It’s just a shame that they don’t plan to support epub, but being able to handle RTF and Word it will be amazing enough for local readers here.
Well, hope this info could be useful, somehow.
Thank you,
Eduardo Melo
editoraplus.org
August 4th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
This is going to get hacked for english, like the librie.
that finally looks like the 1.0 of a lite-book reader
August 5th, 2009 at 5:48 am
Well, they are saying it will be launched on june 2010… hope they have a real product and are not just advertising to seek for investors. But Brazil is the land where everything is possible – same chances to be another “Plastic Logic” unit, never released and always delayed, or to really be a great e-reader.
August 5th, 2009 at 7:06 am
Better than the K2?
Really?
I bet it has the same crappy light as was used by the now deceased Sony model that was rather widely disparaged.
All these eink readers are really just variations on a theme. They use the same screens and logic controller so it really just becomes a matter of price and aesthetics.
I welcome the next “Kindle-killer”. It’s a game of hopscotch. It will just serve to advance the game.
The one thing I do really like about this Brazilian ereader riff is that it does match my refrigerator!
August 5th, 2009 at 7:52 am
What particularly caught my eye was the inclusin of Sony’s BBeB format (or am I wrong that BBeB is a Sony proprietary format?). Isn’t this odd for a non-Sony device?