Yinlips X320 portable media player
Yinlips of China have come up with yet another portable media player for the masses – the Yinlips X320 which is compatible with a wide range of audio and video formats, including MP3, WMA, WAV, APE, FLAC, MPEG-4, AVI, RM, RMVB and FLV without the need for any conversion running in the background. Having said [...]
iVIDI portable media player
There is a make new portable media player from INS Mobile known as the iVIDI, where it sports a 3.3” WQVGA AMOLED display at 480 × 272 resolution, a microSD memory card slot, a T-DMB TV tuner to keep you entertained on-the-go, MP4 video support, Wi-Fi connectivity, an integrated radio, an e-book reader operate, a [...]
Acer drops e-book reader idea
Acer, the Taiwanese computing giant, has issued a statement that they will not jump aboard the e-book bandwagon since the market is not big sufficient while the business model isn’t right. Could that be a case of sour grapes, otherwise Amazon wouldn’t be the runaway winner at point of publishing and still turn a profit [...]
Digital picture frame hacked
Mr C Camacho decided to turn an inexpensive digital picture frame into a kind of e-book reader, thanks to his adeptness with a Python script which results in the ability for that hacked device to process books as well as create images of the pages. All books were taken for free from Project Gutenburg, and [...]
enTourage eDGe delayed by another month
Folks who have enlarged desired the enTourage eDGe are in for a surprise, albeit a rather negative one. Apparently, that e-book reader which was slated for a February release at $490 a pop has been pushed back by another month, while costing another $9 more. To rehash your memory, that Android-powered e-book reader cum betbook [...]
Witstech A81 doubles up as e-book reader
The Witstech A81 is pretty versatile, as you can clearly see from that video that shows it double up as an e-book reader to keep up with the times. While nowhere near as interesting as the iPad’s video demonstration, it just shows that the iPad will have some challengers in that niche gadget market, although [...]