Qualcomm’s Mirasol display technology combines some of the best features of E Ink and LCD displays. Mirasol displays offer a full range of colors, but use far less power than most color screens. You can also view the screens in direct sunlight or using other ambient light, because they don’t need require a backlight. They also use far less energy…

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Nate at The Digital Reader hears that Barnes & Noble will hold an event on November 7th, and that the company could be ready to unveil its next-generation NOOK Color. Meanwhile, Microsoft is holding a Windows Phone event on November 7th. Coincidence? Man, I hope so. Seriously, I know Nokia generated a lot of excitement by dropping Symbian and launching…

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The Android-toting Kindle Fire tablet with a full color screen isn’t the only new member of the Amazon Kindle family. Today Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos took to the stage to introduce several new devices including a model with an E Ink, touchscreen display and a dirt cheap eReader which will sell for just $79. Kindle Touch Unsurprisingly the touchscreen model…

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Amazon is holding an event in New York on Wednesday, and plenty of folks are expecting the company to introduce its long-rumored Android tablet. In advance of the event Amazon has announced that it’s reached a deal with FOX to add thousands of TV shows and movies to its online video streaming service and there’s a rumor that the company…

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Consumer electronics company Panasonic is getting ready to follow Sharp into the niche Android tablet market. Panasonic has started to show off a device that looks a lot like a general purpose Android tablet, but which the company will position as an eBook Reader with access to a digital bookstore with over 10,000 titles. It looks a lot like the…

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The new Barnes & Noble Simple Touch Reader isn’t the only 6 inch E Ink eBook reader with a built-in web browser. It turns out the recently released $129 Kobo Touch also has an unadvertised web browser. The web browsing experience on an E Ink display is never very good since you’re stuck looking at black and white pages with…

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OK, so you know that the new Barnes & Noble NOOK Touch eBook reader has a built-in web browser and you know it’s possible to root the Android device and install third party apps. But how do you do it yourself? The folks at NOOK Devs have put together a set of step by step instructions which you can follow from…

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The new NOOK touchscreen eBook reader has a 6 inch E Ink display and a battery that can run for months at a time. But there’s one other really cool think about the $139 NOOK Touch: It runs Android 2.1. Just days after the eReader started shipping, YouTube user JFreke rooted the device and started installing third party apps. It…

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Qualcomm has been showing off its Mirasol display technology for the last few years. The low power screens don’t require a backlight, instead relying on ambient lighting like an E Ink screen. That reduces power consumption and makes it possible to view the screens in direct sunlight. But unlike most E Ink displays, Mirasol screens can handle color and full…

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Barnes & Noble’s NOOK Color is one of the best selling tablets and eBook Readers around, but the company isn’t giving up on E Ink just yet. Today the company introduced a new NOOK eReader with a 6 inch E Ink touchscreen display. While the new NOOK has the same screen size as the latest Amazon Kindle, the device is substantially smaller,…

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The enTourage eDGe and Pocket eDGe are two of the most bizarre mobile devices to hit the market in the last few years. They’re dual-screen devices running Google Android. One screen is an E Ink display while the other is a color LCD. You can run Android apps on the LCD screen or read eBooks in the black and white…

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Amazon execs haven’t officially come out and said that the company is working on an Android tablet. But there’s growing evidence that a line of Amazon tablets could launch later this year. CEO Jeff Bezos told Consumer Reports to “stay tuned” for more details recently, which is pretty far from a denial. Last week Boy Genius Report, which has some…

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