A View Quest BookBox 5-inch colour eReader has just popped up for sale on HMV’s website, and while its specs may not be anything to write home about, its pricetag certainly is. This fella will set you back just £80, perhaps making it the first eReader that can double up as a stocking filler.
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Watch out, Amazon Kindle – another eReader has turned up looking for a piece of your eBook wrangling action. The Sagem Binder is a compact 152 x 123 x 10.7mm and less than 240g in weight, but comes with both Wi-Fi and 3G for downloading new eBooks in slick cable-free fashion.
The Amazon Kindle may be selling like warmed-through baked goods, but there are plenty of other eReaders vying for your literary dollar – like the Samsung E65, which has just hit the market in the UK. It boasts a 6-inch 600 x 800 eInk screen, full QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi and a digital stylus for making notes.
The new Sony Reader Touch is now on sale, and we’ve got one of our own to find out whether it’s got the goods to take on the ultra slim new Amazon Kindle. We’ll have a full review of the Sony Reader Touch for you shortly, but in the meantime, check it out coming out of its box right here. Even in direct sunlight, there’s no glint off that touchscreen overlay, the real problem with last year’s version. Anything else you’d like to know? Drop it in the comments and we’ll cover it in the review next week!
We would have skipped over the Imagin colour eReader as yet another me too eInk digital book reader, were it not for a curious USP: it’s sporting a colour screen. We’ve been waiting patiently for someone like Mirasol to get something like this to market: has a small British company beat them to the punch?
The new Sony Reader Touch PRS-650 is undoubtedly smaller, thinner and eminently more readable than last year’s model. But cool enough to put up against the new Amazon Kindle? We’re not so sure, but that’s what Sony decided to do at a showcase for journalists in London today. While it’s fair to say we can take or leave the Kindle’s keyboard, it’s still thinner, and at least compared to the RRP for the Sony Reader Touch PRS-650 at Waterstones (£199.99), half the price. What do you think?
The new Sony Reader Touch PRS-650 has a lot to live up to. The glass touchscreen layer on its 6-inch predecessor made reading in direct light a reflective nightmare, but while the new Sony Reader Touch PRS-650 keeps that (responsive) touch display, there’s no sign of any light bulbs over your shoulder on the page this time.
Launched this month, the Sony Reader Pocket PRS-350 is the company’s 2010 refresh of its smallest eReader. In a world of iPads and Android tablets, ol’ fashioned eInk devices could struggle to make an impact, but not this little chap. Read on for photos and first impressions.