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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PocketBook to launch front-lit color E Ink eReader in 2013
PocketBook has announced plans to release an 8 inch eReader with a front-lit color E Ink display. It has a 600 x 800 pixel screen that can display 4096 colors, and it’s due out in June, 2013. Color E Ink displays work a lot like grayscale E Ink screens. The screen is illuminated from ambient […]
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PocketBook introduces A 7 tablet with… A 7 inch screen
PocketBook International has unveiled a new 7 inch Android tablet cleverly called the PocketBook A 7. It features a 1024 x 600 pixel color display, a 1 GHz TI OMAP 3621 processor, 512MB of RAM, and 4GB of storage and runs Google Android 2.3.7 Gingerbread. The company typically produces eReaders, and the A 7 is […]
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Pocketbook introduces 10 inch Android tablet
Pocketbook, makers of a line of tablets and eReaders has introduced a new 10 inch model called the Pocketbook A10. It features a 10 inch, 1024 x 768 pixel capacitive touchscreen display, a 1 GHz TI OMAP3621 processor, 512MB of RAM, and 4GB of storage. The tablet runs Google Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread. The Pocketbook A10 has 802.11b/g/n WiFi, […]
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PocketBook developing tablet with Mirasol outdoor-readable display
Mirasol has been showing off its technology for outdoor readable color LCD displays for over a year, but I haven’t seen any actual devices using Mirasol screens yet. It looks like that could change soon. A demo video for an upcoming tablet from PocketBook shows the device with a Mirasol display — although it looks […]
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PocketBook to launch eReader with a Mirasol color display
PocketBook will showcase 6 new eBook Readers at CES in January. Five of them will have the usual E Ink displays, but the most interesting new model is called the PocketBook Mirasol, and it has… you guessed it, a Qualcomm Mirasol display. The Mirasol screens have some of the properties of E Ink. You can […]
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PocketBook IQ Android tablet hits the FCC
The PocketBook IQ is a 7 inch Android tablet designed to work as an eBook reader and a general purpose internet tablet. It was first introduced a few months ago, and now the tablet has found its way to the FCC web site, which is a pretty good indication that the company is thinking about […]
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PocketBook IQ Android tablet, eBook reader on the way
PocketBook plans to introduce a new line of eBook readers at the IFA show in Berlin next month. While these 6 to 10 inch devices probably won’t actually fit in your pocket (unless you have giant pants), they are fairly attractive little devices. While most take the usual approach of slapping an E Ink display […]