A Sony-Kindle-Cybook-iLiad rival from iRiver?
So will iriver do an e-book-friendly tablet with a color display and handwriting recognition? The prototype, concept, whatever we’re seeing in the photo, sure looks good, but to use an old expression from the American West, the company’s been all hat and no cattle in the past on the E front.
The, er, bright side is that the display would probably be an LCD, offering an alternative for those find E Ink’s contrast between text and background to be lacking. E Ink color isn’t that far along.
I’m also curious if the tablet would offer wireless for easier downloading of books, one of the definite pluses of the Kindle. Oh, and how about the price? If anything, alas, I suspect it would be over $300, groan.
(Via Engadget, Gizmo News, Techmeme, Mike Cane, MobileRead and Print Is Dead. Also see iriver site—keep scrolling.)
January 14th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
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January 14th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Nice looking, more like a tablet than an e-book reader.
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