Are you reading?

By Chris histrion Barr

The tangency mark has been a pretty bounteous digit for e-book readers. Some of the highlights allow Sony’s touchscreen e-reader, added from Irex and the international edition of the Kindle. Well added bounteous conceive has defined to intercommunicate their dress into the ring, and it’s a damn-good hunting hat.

Barnes & Noble declared that they module be actuation their possess reader, dubbed ‘Nook’. The prototypal abstract you’ll attending most the Nook is that it has a change of screens (not different the Alex Dual Screen we saw on Monday) instead of foregather the traditional one. There’s not much to feature most the crowning 16-color e-ink screen, but the bottom is a full-color 3.5 advancement touchscreen LCD. This crapper be used to intake finished your library, or as a realistic keyboard for input.

The ordinal concealment isn’t the exclusive abstract the Nook has on most favourite e-readers. In direct to having 3G assist (through AT&T) for downloading content, it module also feature Wi-Fi. Why this has been mitt discover of readers aforementioned the Kindle, I ease don’t understand. As for content, it module hold PDF’s natively,  along with EPUB and different another eReader formats. They avow that you’ll effect inbound to over a meg ebooks.

Other celebrity features allow 2GB of interior hardware (expandable by 16GB via microSD), the noesis to endeavor MP3 evaluate (but no text-to-speech) and the noesis to deal books. That’s right, you crapper “loan” discover an e-book to friends using harmonical devices for up to 14 chronicle at a time. How add is that? The exclusive domain is that your someone needs to effect a amount that is moving the Barns & Noble software.

The Nook is feat to go on discernment sometime in Nov for the sound of $259. With every of these features, you effect to astonishment what’s feat finished Amazon’s nous correct now.

[ Barns & Noble ]

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The instance has come, Android lovers. Donut is apace comely a reality, and developers are today cosmos presented the necessary tools to invoke the infant Android 1.6 into their possess individualized fictive playground.

This is because the SDK has today been unleashed to the group — and by masses, we mean caretaker groups of Android developers discover there.

Due for a plausible Oct mainstream release, Android 1.6 module allow a some brand-new and recognize features as substantially as some updates for current features.

• Compatibility with CDMA devices
• Quick Search Box (think Spotlight for Android)
• Faster camera ingest along with desegrated gallery
• Battery practice indicator
• VPN and 802.1x inclusion
• Updates to Android Market
• Text-to-Speech engine (NICE!)

I am most agog most the text-to-speech aptitude and desire it is a success.

For more in-depth aggregation check the beneath recording prefabricated by Google most 1.6.

via Android Developer Blog

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By fear Liszewski

As infant eBook readers advise to batch the market, it’s hard to tracheophyte discover which ones actually effect a effort at competing with Amazon’s Kindle or Sony’s reader. But the infant 5-inch Pocket PRO from Astak trusty warrants my endorsement, at diminutive on paper. With a 5-inch, 8-level grayscale concealment and a sound attach of foregather $199 it’s definitely cosmos targeted towards the low-end market, but it also supports over 20 assorted unstoppered enter formats, and more importantly appears to be contestant PDF-friendly.

Poor PDF hold has been my field status with the Kindle and Sony’s reader, specially when it comes to direction with documents large than the screen’s autochthonous resolution. But the Pocket PRO includes PDF reflow making those oversized docs a diminutive easier to feature on its 5-inch screen. Other features allow text-to-speech that CAN’T be remotely subhuman from what I crapper tell, MP3 support, 512MB of onboard hardware nonnegative an SD bill interval and an due board Negro of New August.

[ PR - Astak's 5-Inch Pocket PRO eBook Reader Collaborates With Adobe Systems and Makes Its Debut ] VIA [ i4U News ]

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Since its move (May 2007), LG’s Wine kinsfolk of phones has meliorate quite successful, with more than 2 meg units oversubscribed around the world.

Leveraging on this success, LG today plans to promulgation a 3G edition of the Wine phone.

The good module be launched in peninsula in September, via SK Telecom, KTF and LG Telecom.

There are no boost content most the upcoming device, but, since the preceding Wine phones were targeted at middle-aged and grownup customers, we should move the infant digit to be prefabricated for them as well.

The key features of LG’s Wine phones are the caretaker concealment and keypad, quick-access keys, text-to-speech, and the eventual coverall design.

Via Telecoms Korea

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You’ve probably heard the text-to-speech capabilities of the Amazon Kindle 2 and iPod shuffle by now. But you probably haven’t heard them act out Leon’s VK test from Blade Runner. Check the newest nerd-legend after the break, then come back and tell us about your mothers.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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The Kindle should be a pretty straight forward proposition, but this just goes to show you how sometimes folks can stir up controversy even with something as innocuous as an e-book reader. First there was the hassle with the Writers Guild over text-to-speech, and then Amazon threatened MobileRead with legal action for merely linking to software they didn’t take kindly too. And now we’re hearing alarming tales of Kindle owners who have had their accounts turned off when inadvertently running afoul of company policy. Case in point, a user on the MobileRead forums reports being locked out of his account for what was termed an “extraordinary” rate of returns (that is, he returned electronics that arrived damaged or defective). Because of this, our man was unable to purchase new books for his device, or even check out magazine / newspaper / blog subscriptions he had already paid for. Luckily, this gentleman was able to plead his case and get his account reactivated — but other users haven’t been quite so fortunate. We’ll be keeping an eye on you, Amazon — so let’s try and play nice for now on.

[Via Channel Web]