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Sony To Launch E Ink-based eBook In April

Posted by timothy on from the small-in-japan dept.

Holly Gates writes "Sony will launch an ebook based on E Ink technology in Japan in late April. The screen is about as big as half a paperback book and has a spatial resolution of ~170ppi. The device includes various edictionaries and audio playback functionality. I am a hardware engineer for E Ink by the way, but I figured slashdotters might be interested." An anonymous reader notes that it is supposed to "display over 10,000 pages on a single set of batteries."

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  1. Re:E Ink? by Deraj+DeZine · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    On the plus side, E seems to cost a lot less than other printer ink cartridges. Apparently each refill is only good for 1 night, though. That must be a mistake.

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  2. A few observations by gregarican · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I read another article somewhere about a new type of bendable LCD material that will allow a rolled-up digital newspaper to exist. Like on the "Minority Report" movie. To me I still prefer hardcopy that I know is mine and would only lose the media through a major housefire.

    As for Sony, don't get me started. I still think most of their products are overpriced and proprietary, and come with poor tech support. The last support call I had to make about a brand new Vaio laptop with a bad wi-fi adapter ended with the support guy telling me that the hardware was fine, it was the WLAN, and I needed to contact my systems administrator. All along I told him I was the systems administrator and could vouch for the health of the WLAN. He just repeated the same scripted conclusion about contacting my systems administrator and refused to escalate my concern. Nice outsourced script-reading I tell ya. For a $3,000 price tag (including all of the accessories) I hoped for Lexus service staff.

    After my most recent experiences supporting Vaio equipment I wouldn't buy Sony unless I was being physically threatened...

  3. Re:100.000000000 pages by cptgrudge · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    YOUR SIG SUCKS!!! Right, that's why that user now has (as of this post) 23 Freaks. Not a large number, but probably more than a normal user has on average. Except Taco, I suppose. Yeah, it's stupid, but so is slashdot. I mean, look at you

    By the way, you could do a little bit better trolling. You don't have many responses.

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