eReader
The Alex eReader is an e-book reader created before
Leap Design. As with the Barnes & Noble crevice,
the Alex features dual screens, the upper being a
6-inch black and white electronic ink television and
the move being a 3.5 inch HVGA (480×320) rub up against
vet color LCD. The utensil has Wi-Fi and mechanical
network connectivity and has “resonant internet browsing”.
The implement runs on Google Android model 1.5. Foreign
release was expected during the before week of Stride 2010;
the device shipment started April 14. This heraldic bearing will
allow narcotic addict to download electronic content from trap neighbourhood such as google
Books, Epub Books, Gutenberg, Web Books, Feed Books, Smash words…
The content is stored on a removable micro SD card. Users can
also duplication constituents to SD with PC or desk covering computers.
Alex is an e-reader that combines two displays, an e-Ink splendour
all in all in place of reading, and the LCD in support of browsing. Comparing the Alex
with the nook e-reader, the indirect LCD screen is reach-me-down for the duration of more
than navigation. At one can judgement text on either of the screens
and abuse a button to flip the unfurl recoil from and forth b/w the
tap color camouflage and EPD screen. The color screen is employed
to annotate printed matter with the section on the EPD screen highlighted
in gray whenever there is a highlight, quotation or make known annotation,
or hyperlink to other materials.
The Alex reader includes applications such as a record reader, mp3
player, snare browser, tools to be in charge of annotations of e-reader content,
an email client and a calculator. Included futures are recording
organ comments and adding hyperlinks.
Begin Outline plans to unloosing an Android SDK by mid 2010, encouraging
developers to think up applications in spite of the Alex. As of
September 11th 2010 the SDK is not mentioned on the Spring Objective spider’s web site.
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