Android based e-reader tips up
SPRING DESIGN has taken the wraps off the Duet Navigator, a dual-screen e-book reader that runs the Android OS and offers both a text reader and a web browser.
Dubbed Alex, the device has a six-inch monochrome electronic paper display and a secondary 3.5-inch colour touchscreen display that runs Android and can be used to display links and other media content from the primary text.
You'll also be able to switch off each screen when it is not in use to help conserve battery life.
"This is the start of a whole new experience of reading content on e-books, potentially igniting a whole new industry in multimedia e-book publishing for secondary authors to create supplementary content that is hyper linked to the text. We are bringing life to books with audio, video, and annotations," said Priscilla Lu, chief executive officer of Spring Design.
"This gives readers the ability to fully leverage the resources on the web, and the tools available in search engines to augment the reading experience."
Processor and memory details were not immediately forthcoming, but Alex boasts WiFi and 3G support as well as expandable memory via an SD card slot.
The company is busy talking to content providers, but hopes to launch the Duet Navigator by the end of the year. µ
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Almost caught my interest till i saw all the mumbo jumbo powerpoint pinhead speak at the end.
Have they not yet realised that having a full screen that actually displays the information that people really want to read is whats important ?
Why do they insist on the bezel from hell (tm) and a useless ( not a damn tm ) second screen ?
Do these people not have a single real world user to test this on ?
I'm sick of companies trying to get by with make do, instead of really delivering the features that people want. Do you think that bezel is IMPORTANT ? That it fulfills any function ? That your users like it ?
I mean a bottle of , for example Talisker, ( the likes of which I have too recently have sampled ( perhaps a dram too much ) leading to this comment) is useful because it labels and defines the delicious and lovely contents therein.
But that bezel and useless extra screen contributes NOTHING, and steals the space away that should be given over to the content, which, after all the whole point of the device.
I wonder if any of these companies ever bother with using the things they make.
Sadly it seems not.
I love the concept and loathe the poor execution.
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for the Iphone with eink case :-)
... than "Apples' Adam".
'Can't crumble it up and pitch it in the rubbish bin. Although I could use it still as lines for canary.
There's no excuse they can't make these bog-standard readers with colour print options, backlit screens, a huge spectrum of pastels, flexible screens, Braille translation, big and fluffy with little square dimples, the Latin poets, etc..
Until these improve, I'm stinckig with my Sudoku Loo Rag.