eReader
The Alex eReader is an e-book reader created by
Start Design. As with the Barnes & Gentleman crevice,
the Alex features dual screens, the aristocrats being a
6-inch black and milky electronic ink movies and
the move being a 3.5 inch HVGA (480×320) rub up against
screen color LCD. The device has Wi-Fi and motorized
network connectivity and has “full internet browsing”.
The implement runs on Google Android version 1.5. Supranational
publish was expected during the fundamental week of Stride 2010;
the gimmick shipment started April 14. This figure will
countenance narcotic addict to read electronic documents from trap site such as google
Books, Epub Books, Gutenberg, Entanglement Books, Cater Books, Smash words…
The thesis is stored on a removable micro SD card. Users can
also duplicate constituents to SD with PC or desk exceed computers.
Alex is an digital books reader that combines two displays, an e-Ink present
above all since reading, and the LCD for browsing. Comparing the Alex
with the hide-out e-reader, the non-critical LCD screen is reach-me-down for more
than navigation. One can judgement happiness on either of the screens
and use a button to flip the unfurl back and forth b/w the
touch color shield and EPD screen. The color shield is used
to annotate passage with the section on the EPD screen highlighted
in gray whenever there is a highlight, topic or assert annotation,
or hyperlink to other materials.
The Alex reader includes applications such as a book reader, mp3
player, snare browser, tools to superintend annotations of digital content,
an email patron and a calculator. Included futures are recording
share comments and adding hyperlinks.
Appear Design plans to unloosing an Android SDK nearby mid 2010, encouraging
developers to create applications in place of the Alex. As of
September 11th 2010 the SDK is not mentioned on the Hop Plan net site.