iRex intros the 1000, 1000S, and 1000SW e-readers to a symphony of yawns - Engadget

22/09/2008 by Gavin.

iRex intros the 1000, 1000S, and 1000SW e-readers to a symphony of yawns - Engadget

I love reading on electronic devices for the convenience and pick up and put down nature of the reading I do.  I have enjoyed ebooks on devices from the Casio E105 up to my iPhone and HTC Advantage.  Now, there are compromises of course, screen size, differing ebook standards etc.

Now, what if you produce a device with very few compromises.  You might come up with this:

The units other specs are 10.2 inch screen, 16-color grayscale  with 1024×1280 resolution, an SD card slot with a 1gb card included and the unit is 570 grams and 1.2 centimeters thick.  Formats supported are unsecured Adobe PDF, TXT, HTML, Mobipocket’s DRM PRC files and JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF and BMP images plus “additional formats supported in the future.”

One interesting feature is that it sems to come with a print driver allowing you to ‘print’ to the device which on the face of it will allow you to print all your ebooks/docs to the device for taking with you on the go.

So, few compromises then……apart from the price -  The base 10.2-inch unit is $649 while adding a Wacom digitizer for notes and annotations adds another $100.  WiFi and Bluetooth pushes the price to $849.  Mind you, I can see some markets, legal perhaps,or medical, or indeed anyone who needs access to a large amount of documents (students with well off parents)!

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