Rui CarmoDevices
Notes on some e-ink1 devices other than the Kindle and the Sony Reader:
| Device | Date | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nook | Jun 21 | $149.99 WiFi-only Nook confirmed by Best Buy listing | Amazon’s reply is forthcoming, I’ll bet. |
| May 29 | WiFi-only Nook gets FCC approval? | Hmmm. Going to be interesting to watch. | |
| Apr 26 | Nook outsells Kindle in March? | Expect a sharp price drop of the Kindle soon. | |
| Apr 23 | Barnes & Noble Nook gaming and web browsing impressions | Looks pretty decent. I wonder if I could find one to try in Portugal. | |
| Nook gets web browser, free in-store reading, and games in new firmware | Neat. | ||
| Jan 23 | Learn from my misery: Don’t buy a nook. | A remarkable tale of truly appalling customer service. | |
| Dec 21 | Nook 1.1 doesn’t affect hacks, root still possible | It’s going to be fun watching this unfold. | |
| Nook 1.1 update hitting now | |||
| Dec 17 | Nook hacked with Web browser, Facebook, and Twitter apps for starters | Yep. Pretty predictable, really. Might get my hands on one if they sort out connectivity and browsing. | |
| Dec 14 | Barnes & Noble Nook torn down and rooted — but still respected | Well, now that’s interesting… Having the OS on an SD card makes it hackable as hell, but the question remains as to whether it’s worth the bother… | |
| Dec 11 | Advogato: Blog for mjg59 | Slow and pokey. | |
| Dec 10 | State of the Art – Barnes and Noble’s Nook Reader Fails to Live Up to Promises – NYTimes.com | Pogue weighs in. | |
| Dec 09 | Nook E-Reader Has Potential, but Needs Work | Mossberg says it’s better to wait. | |
| Dec 08 | Buy for Free? | A more interesting review than the mainstream ones. | |
| Dec 7 | Barles & Noble Nook Review | Not overwhelming, then. | |
| Dec 05 | Barnes & Noble’s Nook gets a brief and early hands-on | Hmmm. | |
| Dec 05 | Nook ship date pushed back to January 15th for new pre-orders, no Nooks in stores before Christmas? | Slipping and slipping… | |
| Dec 01 | Nook ship date slips to January 11th, supply chain managers weep | Well, there goes Christmas. | |
| Nov 30 | Nook begins shipping, in select Barnes & Noble stores on December 7th | I’m curious as to when real-world reviews will start popping up. | |
| Nov 22 | e-Book Echo: Nook Sells Out; Kindle Update Coming | Selling out isn’t that relevant: what is relevant is how many units they produced in the first place… | |
| Nov 03 | Spring Design sues Barnes & Noble over the Nook | Now this is a novel business strategy… Work together and clone things. | |
| Oct 23 | Barnes & Noble nook LendMe feature is severely limited, assumes you have friends | I love the way simple, straighforward stuff is completely screwed up by DRM. | |
| Oct 22 | Barnes & Noble Puts Wi-Fi, HSPA in Nook Ebook Reader | So, apparently, no web browser. Meh. | |
| Barnes & Noble’s Nook Reads Books | The format support looks a bit confusing, but the real issue is whether they’ll make it easy to import already existing stuff (not to mention whether they’ll allow even basic browsing via Wi-Fi). I’d love to sync my Google Reader feeds with one of these. | ||
| Oct 20 | Barnes & Noble puts Android on an e-reader with the Nook | Impressive at $259 and considering it runs a form of Android, but still US-centric. | |
| Barnes & Noble Nook’s first close-up | |||
| Barnes & Noble Nook is Official — Knocks the Kindle to the Curb | |||
| Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader leaks a bit early: $259, pre-orders are live | |||
| Oct 15 | Barnes & Noble Reader Deets Appear | Seems interesting, but the pictures are… strange. | |
| Oct 14 | Barnes & Noble twin-screen e-reader revealed early? | Nothing useful about “DRM”:Wikipedia:Digital_rights_management or format support. | |
| Oct 9 | Barnes and Noble ‘confirms’ color Plastic Logic e-book reader for Spring 2010 | Couldn’t care less about the color bit – but would love to get a feel for build quality. Oh, and the video doesn’t show anything of interest whatsoever, and was contradicted the day after. | |
| Sep 18 | Barnes and Noble e-book reader hits the FCC | Looks like it has a SIM card slot cover, but it’s too early to tell. Not holding my breath. | |
| Jul 20 | Barnes & Noble partners with Plastic Logic, becomes ‘exclusive eBookstore provider’ for its e-reader | This keeps getting better and better. It will probably be hideously expensive. | |
| Misc. | Jun 16 | Whatever happened to the e-reader tsunami of 2010? | Nothing much. |
| Jun 11 | iRex Technologies files for bankruptcy, partly due to US problems | Ah well. | |
| Apr 21 | Paradigm Shift debuts $130 EER-051D e-reader | I think entry-level devices will go under the $100 mark by mid-2011 (there’s so much value you can add on the low end). | |
| Mar 02 | ASUS DR-900 e-reader hands-on | Doesn’t look half bad. | |
| Oct 30 | ASUS to launch 3G, WiMAX-equipped e-book readers by March, 2010? | I remember when they claimed they’d do a sub-$200 netbook. | |
| Oct 27 | A Graphic History of Newspaper Circulation Over the Last Two Decades | Truly impressive.  |
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| Alex | May 01 | First Look: Spring Design Alex– Dual Screen e-Book Reader | A sort of a review. |
| Mar 22’10 | Spring Design Alex review | Seems limited. | |
| Feb 24’10 | Spring Design’s Alex pushed to first week of March | The timing’s awful. | |
| Jan 06’10 | Spring Design Alex hands-on | Interesting, although it seems little polished yet. | |
| Nov 06 | Spring Design Alex comes out to play and show off Marvell’s Armada chip | Looks pretty nice, actually. | |
| Nov 03 | Spring Design Sues Barnes and Noble — Nook Infringes on the Alex | So if this is true, they “borrowed” the idea. Weird. | |
| Samsung E series | Feb 22’10 | Samsung’s E6, E101 and E61 e-readers shown on video | Interesting, but… a stylus? |
| Plastic Reader | Jan 07’10 | Plastic Logic debuts QUE proReader, shows off truVue publications | Interesting – they claim not to be doing “just an e-reader”. Would it be a usable personal assistant as well? |
| Plastic Logic QUE proReader first hands-on | The bezel is far too wide. Can’t anybody design one of these things with a smaller bezel and good controls? | ||
| Jul 22 | Plastic Logic’s E-Book Reader Will Surf AT&T and Wi-Fi | Makes perfect sense. | |
| May 27 | Plastic Logic e-book reader: now with 3G | Let’s wait and see. | |
| Feb 9 | Plastic Logic announces content partners, open publishers platform | It’s going to be interesting to keep track of this one. | |
| Bookeen | Jul 7 | Video: Bookeen Cybook Opus ebook reader gets handled and adored | Again, smallish. |
| May 18 | Bookeen Cybook Opus- Pocketable E-Book Reader | Looks nice, if smallish. | |
| BeBook | May 14 | BeBook mini and BeBook 2 priced, 3G added to the latter | Not much detail, though. |
| Apr 30 | BeBook mini e-reader with 5-inch display makes pictorial debut | Not sure if this is a good idea, but it does look cute. | |
| Apr 22 | BeBook Reader Captured on Video | Short, not much interesting. | |
| Mar 6 | BeBook e-reader getting WiFi, new firmware update: eyes-on | Wi-Fi access via SD card, which isn’t all that bad. | |
| Foxit | Dec 10 | Foxit busts out ebook store for eSlick owners | Yet another store. |
| Mar 30 | Foxit’s eSlick e-reader ships out, gets photographed | Not much to go on. | |
| Samsung Papyrus | Mar 24 | Samsung Papyrus e-book reader on track for Korean launch this summer | Somewhat oddly designed, and sadly carries a stylus. |
| Mentor | Mar 24 | Mentor-branded 5-inch e-reader surfaces alongside PocketBook collection | Tiny, which seems to buck current trends for larger screens. |
| Fujitsu FLEPia | Mar 18 | Fujitsu’s Color E-book Reader: Mobile Computer Form Factor of the Future? | The title is a bit pretentious, but the device, despite its odd name is interesting because it sports a color screen. |
| Boox | Feb 27 | Onyx International to unveil the Boox e-reader at CeBIT | First I ever heard of it. |
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1 E Ink is a Philips division devoted to “electronic ink” displays.