Amazon Kindle 2 Leaked, Sony Reader To Get Touch Screen

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 4, 2008 @05:24AM from the upgrades dept.

suraj.sun writes with news that the e-book reader market is getting more competitive. The Boy Genius Report got its hands on pictures of the Kindle 2, successor to Amazon's first e-book gadget. The new version is a bit bigger, with edges that are less awkward, and it has a revamped key layout. On the same day these pictures were found, Sony announced that a new model of its Reader would be getting a touchscreen, allowing users to "turn the page by swiping their finger across the screen" and "annotate text using a touchscreen keyboard." The advances for each gadget may help them regain market share against the iPhone, which, according to Forbes, has eclipsed both in popularity as a reading device. Hopefully the competition for sales and the work being done by the OLPC Project will help to drop prices as well.

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Great, just what I need... by cavehobbit · 2008-10-04 05:41 · Score: 5, Funny

"turn the page by swiping their finger across the screen" ...
Leaving smeary, Cheetos marks across my books.
Wait, that isn't really a change.
Re:maybe the Sony reader would be more by node+3 · 2008-10-04 06:47 · Score: 2, Funny

That's why he mentioned the Mac and not Linux. Everyone knows Linux users thrive on being ignored...