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Kobo Vox revealed Android-powered tablet and joins e-reader wars

by roko on November 19, 2011 in news with No comments

It’s been a wild ride these past few weeks with surprising early launches for both the Amazon Kindle Fire and the B&N Nook Tablet, making the market that much more competitive for Kobo’s social e-reader tablet, the Vox. The holiday season is also prime time for price-slashing deals, and AT&T’s ahead of the curve with a special deal for a Samsung tablet and smartphone bundle. LG iss also hoping to broaden its Android devices, revealing plans to launch a Google TV at CES next year. It’s certainly a wide world for Android, as the platform supports a blooming array of gadgets.

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Samsung Officially Announces Galaxy Tab 10.1

by roko on February 15, 2011 in news, Tablet with No comments

Samsung reveals its next generation tablet

Samsung also today announced its new Galaxy Tab 10.1. This new, larger model — as its name implies — features a 10.1″ display (1280×800). For comparison, the Apple mag glass 10x10 Samsung Officially Announces Galaxy Tab 10.1 iPad uses a 9.7″ display, while the original Galaxy Tab gets by with just 7 inches of screen real estate.

Like its Galaxy S II relative, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 features a 1GHz dual-core processor, HSPA+ connectivity, and 8MP/2MP cameras. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 runs on Google’s tablet-optimized Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” operating system, and will be available in 16GB and 32GB storage configurations.

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Kindle forces budget e-reader price chops

by roko on January 26, 2011 in Comparison, eReaders, news with No comments

Sony has trimmed $50 off the list price of the PRS-350 Pocket Edition, making it a more tempting purchase.

(Credit: Sony)

When it comes to e-readers these days, most of the action here in the U.S. seems to be concentrated around the Kindle, Nook, and iPad. But every week or so, we’ll notice a traffic spike on CNET for an e-reader that isn’t from Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Inevitably, this is due to a special discount that some store is running on the product or perhaps even an appearance in a Best Buy circular.

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eReader Color e-Ink: Mirasol, Pixel Qi Vs. Nook Color & iPad

by roko on December 26, 2010 in Comparison, eReaders, news, Tablet with No comments

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iPad,Nook Color and Amazon Kindle work with “Google Editions”

by roko on December 13, 2010 in Comparison, eReaders, news, Tablet with 1 Comment

How Google Editions will change the Kindle,iPad and Nook war?

Google wants to change the e-books and e-readers’ game.

It’s still early to say if Google’s new online bookstore will succeed, but based on the popularity of the search engine giant, a lot of “fan boys” will surely do the big shift.

The platform where book lovers will have the chance to own an electronic book copy and save it in the cloud is brilliant. The new Google service scheduled to hit the internet market before the Holidays can also change the current online books market share, where latest data show iPad significantly eating the pie share of popular e-commerce site Amazon.

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E-Reader Sales Climb 80%

by roko on December 12, 2010 in eReaders, news, Tablet with No comments

Gartner says 6.6 million of the digital devices will be sold this year, even as competition from media tablets like the iPad” href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D16%26ref_%3Dnb_sb_noss%26y%3D18%26field-keywords%3Dipad%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Delectronics&tag=colorereaders-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957″ target=”_blank”>iPad grows.

By Antone Gonsalves , InformationWeek
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Global sales of electronic readers, the portable devices with digital paper displays that appeal to avid book readers, are expected to rise by nearly 80% this year, a market research firm says.Sales will total 6.6 million units, compared to 3.6 million units last year, Gartner reported Wednesday. While sales will slow a bit next year, e-reader manufacturers are still expected to sell 11 million units, an increase of 68.3%.

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Review: Nookcolor Is Best Dedicated E-Reader

by roko on December 6, 2010 in eReaders, news, Reviews with No comments

by The Associated Press

Review: Nookcolor Is Best Dedicated E Reader

When Barnes & Noble Inc. began to sell its first electronic reading device, the Nook, a year ago, I found it as welcome as a bookcase landing on my toe. It was a terrible design — slow, confusing and buggy.

The successor, the NookColor, is a huge improvement and the best dedicated e-reader on the market this holiday season.

The new color touch screen makes navigation and reading much easier. At $249, it is great for consumers who are not yet willing to spring for a pricier tablet computer such as the iPad.

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Holiday Gift Guide to eReaders Shopping ! Which eBook Reader ?

by roko on December 4, 2010 in eReaders, news with No comments

Waterstones begins iRiver Cover Story pre-orders
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The ebook reader offers touchscreen controls, and supports a number of file formats including EPUB, PDF, TXT, FB2 and DJVU.. …
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View Quest BookBox: eBook reading on a budget
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… ebook reader, but in this age of gadget-convergence, it is definitely a device that blurs the digital boundaries. Capable of displaying ebooks in EPUB, …
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How to choose an e-reader or tablet for the holidays

by roko on December 3, 2010 in Comparison, eReaders, news, Tablet with No comments

Whether you’re eying a Kindle, an iPad, or just looking for a place to start, we break down the basics of choosing an e-reader or tablet for the holidays.

So you think you’re ready to take the digital leap and start reading e-books. You’re not alone, but you have a lot of choices to sift through. Though e-book readers like the Amazon Kindle have been around for several years, a crop of new tablet devices with e-book functionality, like the iPad, have begun to invade the market. To help make sense of it all, we’ve compiled a comprehensive list of comparisons between e-readers and tablets. Read on to figure out which type of device is best for you.

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Pocket library

by roko on November 30, 2010 in eReaders, news with No comments

Undecided on whether to buy a dedicated e-book device? Try out these apps on your smartphone to dip your toes into the digital reading experience

The waves of publicity generated first by Amazon’s Kindle and follow-up devices such as the Nook and Galapagos, and now by tablet devices such as Samsung’s Galaxy Tab and the upcoming BlackBerry Playbook, have made e-book readers among the most discussed (and debated) tech items of the last couple of years. Although e-books are undoubtedly going mainstream, there’s still a debate that centres on whether the portability, storage capacity and sheer convenience of e-book readers makes them a viable alternative to real books.

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