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Onyx introduces Android phone, tablets with E Ink screens

E Ink displays are low power screens which you can see without a backlight. They’re most often found in eReaders like the Amazon Kindle or B&N NOOK Simple Touch, but Chinese company Onyx is showing off new products including an upcoming smartphone featuring an E Ink display. The company also has a product which looks […]

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Amazon acquires display maker Liquavista, could use tech in future Kindles

Liquavista makes low-power, sunlight viewable displays using a technology called electrowetting. The company’s been showing off its technology for a few years, but even though Samsung acquired Liquvista in 2011, no commercial products featuring the team’s displays have been released yet. Now Amazon has acquired Liquavista from Samsung, which means the maker of the popular […]

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PocketBook introduces 8 inch color eReader (in Russia)

Want to read digital books on a color screen, but prefer E Ink to an LCD display? Color E Ink has been in the works for years, but few devices featuring the low power, easy-on-the-eyes displays have hit the streets. Those that have been released have generally been underwhelming since the colors just don’t look […]

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Amazon updates Kindle Touch firmware, brings Paperwhite-style UI to discontinued eReader

Amazon has rolled out a software update for the Kindle Touch, bringing some of the features from the Kindle Paperwhite to folks still using Amazon’s first touchscreen Kindle eReader. Clearly the software update won’t bring a front-lit screen to the Kindle Touch, but it does give users new ways to navigate the home screen, book […]

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NYT: Barnes & Noble could scale back NOOK hardware, focus on digital content

Barnes & Noble recently reported that revenue from its NOOK hardware and eBook division would be well short of earlier expectations — and now The New York Times reports that B&N is reconsidering its approach to the digital book space. While the bookseller isn’t ready to stop making NOOK eReaders and tablets, according to the […]

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Pandigital Novel hacks could eventually turn a $38 eReader into a cheap Android tablet

The Pandigital Novel is an inexpensive eReader that by most accounts isn’t very good, at least not when compared with recent NOOK or Kindle devices. But it’s dirt cheap. You can pick one up from Amazon for just $38. For that price you get an 8 ounce eReader with a 6 inch, 600 x 800 pixel […]