eReader
The Alex eReader is an e-book reader created alongside
Leap Design. As with the Barnes & Gentleman nook,
the Alex features dual screens, the characters upper class being a
6-inch menacing and milky electronic ink protection and
the lower being a 3.5 inch HVGA (480×320) come
vet color LCD. The contraption has Wi-Fi and mechanical
network connectivity and has “uncensored internet browsing”.
The implement runs on Google Android adaptation 1.5. Foreign
deliver was expected during the elementary week of Stride 2010;
the instrument shipment started April 14. This figure purpose
countenance buyer to read electronic content from network site such as google
Books, Epub Books, Gutenberg, Web Books, Feed Books, Smash words…
The subject-matter is stored on a removable micro SD card. Users can
also duplicate soothe to SD with PC or desk exceed computers.
Alex is an digital document reader that combines two displays, an e-Ink display
most of all since reading, and the LCD in support of browsing. Comparing the Alex
with the nest e-reader, the less important LCD mesh is reach-me-down for the duration of more
than navigation. In unison can landscape substance on either of the screens
and abuse a button to flip the display to and forth b/w the
have reference to color motion pictures and EPD screen. The color shield is used
to annotate printed matter with the section on the EPD cloak highlighted
in gray whenever there is a highlight, topic or assert annotation,
or hyperlink to other materials.
The Alex reader includes applications such as a record reader, mp3
musician, snare browser, tools to muddle through annotations of last electronic docs query,
an email patient and a calculator. Included futures are recording
share comments and adding hyperlinks.
Spring Form plans to manumission an Android SDK close mid 2010, encouraging
developers to fashion applications exchange for the Alex. As of
September 11th 2010 the SDK is not mentioned on the Hop Design web site.