Had a few queries about the e-readers I talked about on the Today Show this morning. Here’s the specifications:
LASER EB700 multimedia e-book reader
Key features:
- 7-inch full colour LCD screen with high resolutio
- nMultimedia capabilities – save and view photos, watch video and movies in colour
- Listen to music
- Fully licensed and compatible with all e-book formats including DRM
- Storage – micro SD memory card expansion up to 16G
- Includes 4GB on board memory
- Comes with 200 free e-books preloaded
- There is a touch screen version coming
- $149.95
Kindle
Key features:
- Small—21 percent smaller than the previous version
- 2-month battery life
- Store up to 3,500 books
- Claimed to be lighter than the average paperback
- High contrast screen
- Proprietary screen technology—fastest page turns,
- Built-in Wi-Fi
- Free backup and re-downloading with Worry Free Archive
- $189
Sony Reader Wi-Fi Touch
Key Features
- Touch screen with pinch in/out for zooming
- No bigger than a paperback book
- 8.9mm thin and weighing just 168 grams
- Support multiple file formats as EPUB, PDF and Text.
- Battery life of over one month with wireless off (up to three weeks with wireless on).
- Stores up to 1200 eBooks via the internal memory (up to 32GB storage using an optional microSD card)
- Available in three weeks
- $179