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Handheld Devices Gallery - Multi-Function Players -- OLD
E-Book Readers, Handheld Games, Satellite Radio
by Douglas Dixon
These galleries provide notes on some interesting technology and trends in digital home media.
They include some sample products illustrating these trends.
Information and pricing are summarized from public sources as of when they were added,
and may be incorrect or out of date. Corrections and updates are welcome.
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E-Book Readers
Electronic books and magazines, E-Ink displays
Sony Reader Digital Book (OLD)
OLD - Sony Reader Pocket Edition - 5" (8/09)
Find the Sony
Reader Pocket Edition on Amazon.com
OLD - Sony Reader Touch Edition - 6", touch (8/09)
- 6" touch screen, 800 x 600, 8 level gray scale
- 6.9 x 4.8 x .4 in., 10.1 oz.
- $299 - PRS-600SC
Find the Sony
Reader Touch Edition on Amazon.com
OLD - Sony Reader Daily Edition - 7.1", wireless (~ 1/10)
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- 7.1" touch screen E Ink Vizplex display,
600 x 1024, 16 level gray scale
- Portrait or landscape (2 pages), Touch screen navigation
- Fully readable in direct sunlight, high contrast ratio
- Free 3G wireless access
HSPA, UMTS, Edge, and GPRS data services (850 and 1900 MHz)
- Up to 1.6 GB onboard memory user available ), ~ 1000 e-books
- Dual memory card expansion slots:
Memory Stick Duo and SD Card up to 32 GB
- Rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery
12,000 (ePub) Continuous page turns
Up to 7 days with wireless, 2 1/2 weeks with wireless off
- 8-1/8 x 5 x 19/32 in., 12.75 oz. (0.6 in. thin)
- $399 - PRS-900BC
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- Wireless access to Sony Reader Store and Google Books
- Reader Library software for PC and Mac, Transfer titles via USB
- Built-in New Oxford American Dictionary; Six adjustable font sizes
- Freehand notes and highlight sections of text with included stylus
- Notes and search with virtual keyboard
- DRM Text: ePub (Adobe DRM protected), PDF (Adobe DRM protected)
- Image: JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP
- Unsecured Audio: MP3 (Non encrypted), AAC (Non encrypted)
- Unsecured Text: ePub, PDF, TXT, RTF, Micrsoft Word, (Conversion on PC)
Sony Reader Digital Book (10/08)
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- PRS-700, 3rd generation
- Access 500,000 free public domain books from Google
http://ebookstore.sony.com/google-ebooks
- 6 inch touch-screen display
8-Level Gray Scale, 170 Pixels Per Inch
- Transfer eBooks, documents (Word, PDF)
Music
(MP3, AAC)
Photos: JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP
- Memory Stick Duo / SD card expansion storage
- 0.4 in. thin (5 1/9 x 6 7/9 x 13/32
in.), 10 oz.
- Battery - turn up to 7,500 pages (two weeks of reading)
- Announced 10/08 - $399; 4/09 - $349
- PR 10/08 - http://news.sel.sony.com/en/press_room/consumer/
computer_peripheral/e_book/release/37586.html
Find the Sony
Reader on Amazon.com
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Samsung E6 and E101 E-book Readers - 6" & 10", Stylus (early 2010)
- Built-in electromagnetic resonance (EMR) stylus pen
- Handwrite and annotate directly on display
- Prevents mistypes by hands and objects that graze screen surface
- Variety of pen and eraser thicknesses for drawing and writing
- Charge four hours, use for two weeks
- Wireless and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g - download and share certain content
- Bluetooth 2.0
- 2 GB flash memory, storing more than 1,200 books or 24,000 memos
- Google content
- PR 1/10 - www.samsungusanews.com/index.jsp?menu=post&post=4203
- E6 6" $399, E101 10" $699, early 2010
Audiovox - RCA Lexi eReader - 6" (~ 5/2010)
- 6" E Ink display, 800 x 600, 16-level gray scale, 2GB storage,
- Content exclusively though Barnes & Noble
- Sync with PC / Mac - Barnes & Nobles Desktop Reader software
- Adobe Reader Mobile for PDF and ePub formats
- Rechargeable battery, 7,000 page turns
- PR 1/10 - http://audiovox2.info/docs/voxx_corp/other/VOXXeReaderFINAL.pdf
- Expected May 2010, $229
Spring Design Alex - Dual Screen Android eReader - Video (~ 2/2010)
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- Full color 3.5” touchscreen LCD screen
for web browsing,
320 x 480, 16-bit color
- 6” E-ink EPD screen (electronic paper display)
for printed pages and text, 600 x 800, 8 gray scale
- Or view on two screens simultaneously
- Browse entire Web, search with virtual keyboard
- Google Android platform - download apps
- WiFi b/g and 3G, EVDO/CDMA and GSM
- Download Adobe ePUB format digital books, Google Books
- Adobe ePUB/PDF/DRM standard, .txt or HTML
- Images, videos, music, documents
- MP4 or Flash videos, MP3 media player - speakers, earphones
- 2 GB internal flash, Removable SD card
- Read offline up to two weeks
- 8.9 x 4.7 x 0.4 in., 11 oz.
- www.springdesign.com
- PR 1/10 - Announce - www.springdesign.com/us/...
- Available 2/2010 - $359
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Plastic Logic QUE - 10.5", proReader for business professionals (~ 4/2010)
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- Shatterproof plastic display, E Ink Vizplex technology
- 10.5 in. touchscreen, 944 x 1264, 150 ppi, 8 gray levels
- Download wirelessly, Wi-Fi b/g and AT&T 3G network
- Send documents from BlackBerry smartphone via Bluetooth
- QUE store powered by Barnes & Noble
- Native: PDF, ePub, TXT documents; GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP images
- Host conversion: Office documents (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), HTML, PDF
- 8.5 x 11 x 0.3 in.,17 oz. (pad of paper)
- http://www.plasticlogic.com
- http://www.QUEreader.com
- PR 10/09 - Announce - http://www.plasticlogic.com/news/pr_quepremier_oct192009.php
- QUE WiFi - 4 GB, Up to 35,000 documents, $649 [due April 2010]
- QUE 3G (& WiFi) - 8 GB, Up to 75,000 documents, $799
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Skiff Reader - 11.5", Metal foil e-paper (later 2010)
- Skiff (formerly FirstPaper)
- Partners: Hearst Corporation, LG Display. Marvell silicon, Sprint Nextel wireless
- Skiff Service: Specializes in newspaper and magazine content, also books and blogs
- LG metal-foil e-paper display - Rugged thin, flexible sheet of stainless-steel foil
- Silicon thin-film-transistors (TFT) on flexible stainless-steel substrate
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- 11.5 in. display (292.1 mm), 1200 x 1600, 174 ppi
- Full touchscreen: Finger and stylus operation
- Magnesium housing: Shatter-proof, crack-proof
- 3G wireless, WiFi - Skiff service and Skiff Store
- Built-in speaker, 3.5 mm standard audio jack
- USB 2.0, mini-USB port for sideloading content
- 4 GB Internal (with 3+ GB available for content)
- Expandable SDHC 2.0 standard compliant SD-card slot
- Marvell CPU processor
- Rechargeable high-capacity Lithium Ion battery
- One week life (thousands of page turns
with periodic wireless use)
- Recharge 2 to 3 hrs
- 9 x 11 x 0.268 in. (228.6 x 279.4 x 6.8 mm),
17 9/16 oz (498 g.)
- www.skiff.com
- Available for purchase later this year from Sprint
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Pixel Qi - Dual-mode display - E-Reader grayscale and color video (2010)
 Pixel Qi ("chee")
- Fabless ASIC company that specializes in screens;
The screen is just a big ASIC chip
- New class of screens - Both E-Reader grayscale reflective and color video backlit LCD
- Rival best epaper displays, with fast video rate update (refresh), fully saturated color
- Read text (e-mail, code, Web site) without wasting battery power on backlight
- First product is 10.1" screen, for mini-laptops, multitouch tablets, ebook readers
- LCD mode 1024 by 600, reflective mode triples resolution to 200 dpi
- Uses 1/2 to 1/4 the power of regular LCD screen
- Low pricing, use standard LCD manufacturing materials and processes.
- See IEEE Spectrum Winner 1/10 - http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/winner-pixel-qis-everywhere-display
- pixelqi.com
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SIRIUS
Satellite Radio
www.sirius.com
XM
Satellite Radio
www.xmradio.com
- Monthly subscriptions from 70 plus
channels starting at $12.95
- SIRIUS: Also Internet radio access, or $6.99 additional
- Plans for live
traffic and marine weather service.
- Removable radios and base stations for home or office use
- Position an antenna with a clear view of the sky
- Adding terrestrial repeaters in major cities
Extend
digital signal into buildings, and for mobile use.
Sirius Stiletto 100 (winter 06)
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- Only plays recorded music -- can't extract music to a
computer
- Mark songs to purchase later via the Yahoo! Music
Engine.
- Includes WiFi for SIRIUS
Internet Radio
- Holiday 06 - $349, 2 GB memory, 100 hours live programming
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