Sony Launches First Commercial Electronic Paper Display Reader

prostoalex writes "The e-paper is coming to reality in the form of a 6" screen with higher than usual 170 dpi and $381 price tag. It runs a customized version of Linux, and being Sony-branded, supports MemoryStick. The British journalists claim that three AAA batteries keep it up for 10,000 pages, but it's not too clear whether they've actually verified it, or just read the press-release. The manufacturers are hoping to sell 5,000 of these a month as their best-case scenario."

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Japanese QWERTY

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http://www.eink.com/news/images/SONY_Reader_1000EP .jpg I didn't know the Japanese typed with a qwerty keyboard? They're pretty resourceful if you ask me.