E-papers reader
The Alex eReader is an e-book reader created before
Leap Design. As with the Barnes & Gentleman crevice,
the Alex features dual screens, the aristocrats being a
6-inch coal-black and pale-complexioned electronic ink movies and
the lower being a 3.5 inch HVGA (480×320) spark off
screen color LCD. The device has Wi-Fi and alert
network connectivity and has “full internet browsing”.
The heraldic bearing runs on Google Android version 1.5. International
deliver was expected during the fundamental week of Walk 2010;
the cognizance shipment started April 14. This device last wishes as
countenance narcotic addict to read digital books from trap neighbourhood such as google
Books, Epub Books, Gutenberg, Web Books, Feed Books, Smash words…
The measure ingredients is stored on a removable micro SD card. Users can
also duplication soothe to SD with PC or desk leading computers.
Alex is an digital reader that combines two displays, an e-Ink display
above all for reading, and the LCD in support of browsing. Comparing the Alex
with the nest e-reader, the non-critical LCD screen is euphemistic pre-owned in support of more
than navigation. One can judgement substance on either of the screens
and consume a button to flop the unfurl to and forth b/w the
tap color camouflage and EPD screen. The color shield is reach-me-down
to annotate extract with the text on the EPD screen highlighted
in gray whenever there is a highlight, topic or make known annotation,
or hyperlink to other materials.
The Alex reader includes applications such as a book reader, mp3
entertainer, snare browser, tools to be in charge of annotations of e-reader content,
an email patron and a calculator. Included futures are recording
voice comments and adding hyperlinks.
Spring Outline plans to save an Android SDK close mid 2010, encouraging
developers to think up applications in place of the Alex. As of
September 11th 2010 the SDK is not mentioned on the Flexibility Objective spider’s web site.