Oh ho. The e-reader scene’s got another player crashing the literary party: iriver. Yup, the Korean media player powerhouse could be priming its own Kindle, so read on for what we know.
Following hints of an iriver eBook last month, a forum grass has outed pics and deets of the iriver Story, as it’s dubbed, and they look mighty real to us.
As well as packing a QWERTY keyboard, the iriver e-reader’s got a memory card slot to stash up to 32GB of tomes, and file format support for PDF, epub, .txt and .doc, as well as a comic book reader for Marvel maniacs.
Sony Reader Touch Edition hands-on!
Unsurprisingly, iriver has plumped for minimalist white, and it’s expected to hit dusty shelves in South Korea on the 16th of this month for around £175-£235. Don’t worry though, overseas distribution is planned too – will the iriver e-reader beat the Kindle to the UK though? We’ll let you know.
[...] week, another e-reader hits the shops. This time it’s the iRiver Story taking on the Sony Reader and Amazon Kindle. Read on to see if it has what it takes to battle the [...]