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Pandigital Novel colour e-reader video demo
It's very tablet like
Mon Sep 06 2010, 14:29
A 7-INCH ANDROID 2.1 E-READER will go on sale in Europe from the fourth quarter. Made by Pandigital, the TFT colour screen capable web browsing e-reader was launched at IFA 2010. For an e-reader the Novel, as Pandigital calls it, boasts tablet like capabilities with an 800x600 resolution LCD touchscreen, a virtual keyboard, a Samsung ARM 11 mobile processor, 1GB of memory, WiFi, a 1,600mAh battery, accelerometers for portrait or landscape orientation and an SD card slot for up to 32GB, and all in a 540g form factor. µ
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On the inq it's customary that the author of the article actually isn't the one deciding on the headline, that's done by the chief I know from past incidents.
@mike
The first comments are not knocking what the product is, just what it is not. Which going by the title of this article the author does not know. This almost makes the article completely irrelevant. Even you say it's a tablet. We don't need tech blogs confusing consumers and handing them a gift bag of poor eye sight.
Guys - we all want better hardware and we have to accept that as time goes on hardware will get better and less expensive. We have to decide how much these devices will cost. Here's a $200 or less android tablet. Will we poo-poo it or will we give it some props? Two years from now, will the current high-end hardware be offered at $200, or will it be discontinued in lieu of *new* $600 hardware?
It's NOT a great tablet, but it IS a great price for an android tablet with wifi and removable storage, and as time goes on we can either stick to $600 tablets that keep getting better or $200 tablets that keep getting better.
The distinguishing characteristic between low end tablets with an ereader app and an ereader capable of browsing is the display. An ereader uses a low power drain display, usually ein & the tablet uses a quick refresh screen that drains the battery quickly.
This one is a tablet with ereader software preinstalled. It will have the usual problem of requiring daily charging vs a real ereader's once a fortnight charge requirement.
If it has an lcd display, then it can't be called an ereader since it won't be possible to read it out of doors on a sunny day.