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Written on August 29th, 2009 by ADMINno shouts
Sony’s Daily Edition e-book reader is Sony’s first 3G connected reader. It connects via AT&T’s cellular network — but no mention of WiFi connectivity. The Daily Edition has a seven-inch touch widescreen display that you can rotate to view books in landscape. It will be available in December for $399. The 3G connection will be free (like the Kindle), but the wireless access only gets you access to Sony’s book store.
Sony now has a family of three readers; The Reader Pocket Edition ($199) with a 5″ display, The Reader Touch Edition ($299) with a 6″ touch screen and the newly announced The Daily Edition ($399) with a 7″ screen and 3G connectivity.
In addition to the Sony eBook Store, consumers will be able to buy EPUB standard format books from Powell’s Books and more than 200 other bookstores.
All three models feature Sony’s eBook Library software 3.0, which now includes support for Adobe PDF (with reflow capability), EPUB, Microsoft Word, BBeB files, or other text file formats on the Reader.
Working with OverDrive (www.overdrive.com), Sony’s Library Finder application will now offer visitors to the eBook Store by Sony easy access to their local library’s collection of eBooks. Thousands of libraries in the OverDrive network offer eBooks optimized for the Sony Reader, and visitors can now find these libraries by typing their zip code into the Library Finder.
Here’s Gizmodo’s cheat sheet of the current e-book contenders:
Sony’s toughest competitor is the Amazon’s Kindle 2 ($299) and Amazon’s 9.7″ DX ($489). The upcoming Plastic Logic eReader will feature the largest screen in the industry, at a whopping 8.5 x 11 inches. Plastic Logic says their entry into the market will begin in the second half of 2009 with pilots and trials with key partners.
They may soon be joined by Asustek and MSI, reports Digitimes. Asustek Computer, under its Eee brand, could launch their e-book reader by the end of 2009 at the earliest, according to company president Jerry Shen. Meanwhile, Micro-Star International (MSI) is also evaluating the e-book reader market.
The requirements for entering the e-book reader market are even lower than for netbooks, but the key to success lies in establishing a content delivery platform. Currently, demand for e-book readers is mainly concentrated in North America and Europe, with penetration in Asia markets low due to differences in reading habits.
The Open Book Alliance — or “Sour Grapes Alliance,” as Google likes to call it — formally launched Wednesday afternoon, debuting a new Web site, as well as the manifesto with which it is challenging Google’s settlement with authors and publishers.
“The mass digitization of books promises to bring tremendous value to consumers, libraries, scholars, and students,” the Alliance says in its mission statement. The Open Book Alliance will counter Google, the Association of American Publishers and the Authors’ Guild’s scheme to monopolize the access, distribution and pricing of the largest digital database of books in the world.
Source: Dailywireless
Written on August 6th, 2009 by ADMINno shouts
Sony today announced two new versions of its electronic reader. The Sony Reader now includes the $199 Reader Pocket Edition and $299 Reader Touch Edition . They will go on sale at the end of the month. The Pocket Edition will have a five-inch diagonal display while the Touch Edition will have a touch-sensitive screen and a six-inch screen, the same size as older Sony Readers. The Touch Edition also includes expansion slots for an SD card or a Memory Stick Pro Duo.
Both devices have enough internal memory to store about 350 books, and a battery life of about two weeks.
Neither of the new Sony devices have a wireless connection. The Sony devices use software loaded onto a Windows PC or Mac to organize and download e-books via USB connections.
Sony will compete with Amazon’s $299 Kindle, which has a six-inch screen and the $489 Kindle DX which has a 9.7-inch screen.
Through Sony’s eBook Store, users can also access more than one million free public domain books from Google. These titles, which Google has digitized as part of its Google Books project, are available in EPUB format and are optimized for current models of the Sony Reader.
Sony also plans to lower the prices of best-selling e-books to $9.99 from $11.99, matching Amazon’s prices for Kindle ebooks. Bookseller Barnes & Noble has lowered the cost for books on eReader.com to match that of Amazon’s. Barnes & Noble acquired the online e-book store earlier in the year through the acquisition of Fictionwise.
The new Sony e-readers will use the same E-Ink screen technology that’s in the Kindle and older Sony Reader. Both devices will have enough internal memory to store about 350 books, and a battery life of about two weeks. Sony’s eBook Library software 3.0 now includes support for many Apple Macintosh computers as well as PCs, makes it easy to transfer and read any Adobe PDF (with reflow capability), Microsoft Word, BBeB files, or other text file formats on the Reader.
Besides Sony, Amazon will face competition in the future from startup Plastic Logic, which is planning to start selling a device similar to the Kindle DX in the second half of the year. AT&T will provide the 3G data connectivity for Plastic Logic’s e-reader when it becomes available next year. It also comes with a WiFi connection.
Barnes & Noble, the world’s largest chain of bookstores, last week announced it will now provide free Wi-Fi in all 777 of its stores throughout the United States. Barnes & Noble signed a strategic agreement with AT&T to provide free Wi-Fi to all its customers. No AT&T subscription required.
Amazon won’t say how many of the devices it has sold, but some estimate it is over 1 million, and Amazon claims it accounts for 35% of book sales for those editions in which Kindle versions are available.
Sarah Epps, an analyst at Forrester Research, said Sony had publicly indicated that the two new devices were part of a new suite of e-reading products it would introduce this year. She said it was a “reasonable assumption” that Sony would introduce another device in the fall that had wireless features, reports the NY Times.
Forrester Research estimates Kindle and the Sony Reader hit the one million mark in U.S. sales at the end of 2008 and forecast two million units in 2009. Source: http://www.dailywireless.org/2009/08/05/new-sony-e-readers/
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Written on August 1st, 2009 by ADMINno shouts
Sony Cybershot W190
Continuing with the premiere of Sony we find another compact digital, this comes under the name of Sony Cybershot W190 and is known for bringing a 12.1 megapixel sensor and Smart Zoom system that will allow an increase of up to 17x.
Its characteristics are similar to the Sony Cybershot W180, which features a 2.7 inch LCD screen, smile detection system, face detection system, 7 scene selection modes, ISO 3200 sensitivity and an optical zoom of up to 3 increases .
Regarding its price and exact date of availability on the market still has not heard anything, but is rumored to reach the European market from next month of July.
Like the previous presentation, the Sony Cybershot W190 can purchase the color black, silver and red.
We are awaiting to know the exact date to be launched in the compact digital, which will be more of a reader hoping to expand to more countries.
Sony continues to demonstrate why this is located between the best companies in the electronic world. Source: http://www.hot-camera.info/sony-cybershot-w190-digital-camera
Written on August 1st, 2009 by ADMINno shouts
Sony Cybershot W180
Sony is one of those companies that always hits when a new technological equipment is in today has come to announce to the world its most recent acquisition and interesting named Sony Cybershot W180, which has a digital camera with a 10.1 megapixel sensor and a 2.7-inch screen where you can view much of the menu and variety of photographs that captures.
Among other things, this compact digital system to have the smile detection, face detection system, 7 scene selection modes, optical zoom Smart Zoom 3 increases and that will get up to 17 times.
Finally we need to bring a SteadyShot image stabilizer and ISO sensitivity up to 3200.
The compact is apparently very attractive, especially developed for people who want to make their first pines in the world of photography. If the color black is not your favorite because Sony also offers you the silver and red.
Sony Cybershot W180 will only be marketed in Europe, just for the month of July this year. Source: http://www.hot-camera.info/sony-cybershot-w180
Written on August 1st, 2009 by ADMINno shouts
Sony TG5V
- Sony has launched its TG5V, known in Europe as TG7. As an improvement made to the TG1 basically TG5V maintains the same concept, but its weight is 230g and its size is only 30 × 117×62mm, much smaller and lighter than its predecessor. It comes with integrated GPS technology, has an internal memory capacity of 16GB and can last up to 6 hours of video recording. Sales begin in Japan starting next April 20.
Written on May 21st, 2009 by ADMINno shouts
New devices to hit our provisioning platform in the last 7 days. Notables are the Samsung Android device, the BlackBerry 9630 aka Niagara and the first sightings on a Nokia S40 6th edition running the WebKit browser. Source http://www.paxmodept.com/telesto/blogitem.htm?id=785
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