Barnes & Noble’s NOOK Simple Touch is an inexpensive eBook reader with an E Ink display. It’s designed for reading ebooks and not much else… yet. While the NOOK Simple Touch features WiFi, all you can do with it right note is browse the B&N book store and download content. But according to a leaked […]
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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 […]
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 […]
B&N adds Google Play store to NOOK HD, NOOK HD+
Barnes & Noble is stepping up its competition with Amazon in the digital tablet space by adding support for hundreds of thousands of Android apps to its latest tablets. The somewhat surprising thing is that B&N is doing that by adding support for the Google Play Store to the NOOK HD and NOOK HD+. While […]
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 […]
Kobo Aura HD: eBooks go HD
Kobo has been following in the footsteps of Amazon and Barnes & Noble for the past few years. But the company’s latest eReader suggest the company is looking to come out from behind the shadow of those giants. Last year the company introduced an inexpensive 5 inch eReader called the Kobo Mini. And now Kobo […]
Toshiba BookPlace Mono eReader hits Japan
Toshiba’s new eBook reader has a 6 inch, 758 a 1024 pixel E Ink display, WiFi, a touchscreen, 4GB of storage, and a microSDHC card slot. The Toshiba BookPlace Mono is expected to go on sale in mid-April for about $100, although the price will go up to $145 in May. The Digital Reader reports […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]