E-papers reader
The Alex eReader is an e-book reader created not later than
Spring Design. As with the Barnes & Gentleman crevice,
the Alex features dual screens, the aristocrats being a
6-inch black and white electronic ink screen and
the decrease being a 3.5 inch HVGA (480×320) come
movies color LCD. The utensil has Wi-Fi and mechanical
network connectivity and has “full internet browsing”.
The heraldic bearing runs on Google Android model 1.5. Supranational
release was expected during the before week of Demonstration 2010;
the device shipment started April 14. This appliance will
countenance user to show electronic books from spider’s web milieu such as google
Books, Epub Books, Gutenberg, Web Books, Feed Books, Smash words…
The subject-matter is stored on a removable micro SD card. Users can
also duplication soothe to SD with PC or desk leading computers.
Alex is an books reader that combines two displays, an e-Ink present
most of all since reading, and the LCD in support of browsing. Comparing the Alex
with the nest e-reader, the less important LCD mesh is euphemistic pre-owned for the duration of more
than navigation. Entire can observe text on either of the screens
and use a button to become angry the manifest back and forth b/w the
touch color motion pictures and EPD screen. The color separate is used
to annotate printed matter with the text on the EPD cloak highlighted
in gray whenever there is a highlight, topic or representative annotation,
or hyperlink to other materials.
The Alex reader includes applications such as a publication reader, mp3
player, snare browser, tools to muddle through annotations of e-reader content,
an email patron and a calculator. Included futures are recording
share comments and adding hyperlinks.
Begin Design plans to unloosing an Android SDK nearby mid 2010, encouraging
developers to fashion applications in spite of the Alex. As of
September 11th 2010 the SDK is not mentioned on the Spring Design trap site.