wraggster
August 15th, 2012, 02:22
The Pure is just 8mm thick and pretty darn affordable at £69.
Measuring just 8mm thick, the BeBook Pure is the thinnest e-ink e-reader in the world - by way of comparison Amazon's thinnest device is the Kindle Keyboard at 8.5mm.
With in a rubber shell and loaded with 4GB memory, the £69 device also supports micro SD cards up to 32GB.
Some potential customers may be put off by the lack of a touchscreen (the Pure is operated using five hard keys beneath the display and two on the side) but at £20 less than the cheapest Kindle and less than similar models from Kobo and Barnes & Noble, this new entrant to the competitive ereader market may find some love.
The Pure supports a variety of file formats, including the PDF and epub standards (with or without DRM) in addition to less used formats like .txt and .html.
While the battery isn't going to blow the world away, BeBook claim it can run for three weeks on a single charge and is good for around 12,000 pageviews.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/bebook-unveil-the-world-s-thinnest-e-ink-e-reader/019020
Measuring just 8mm thick, the BeBook Pure is the thinnest e-ink e-reader in the world - by way of comparison Amazon's thinnest device is the Kindle Keyboard at 8.5mm.
With in a rubber shell and loaded with 4GB memory, the £69 device also supports micro SD cards up to 32GB.
Some potential customers may be put off by the lack of a touchscreen (the Pure is operated using five hard keys beneath the display and two on the side) but at £20 less than the cheapest Kindle and less than similar models from Kobo and Barnes & Noble, this new entrant to the competitive ereader market may find some love.
The Pure supports a variety of file formats, including the PDF and epub standards (with or without DRM) in addition to less used formats like .txt and .html.
While the battery isn't going to blow the world away, BeBook claim it can run for three weeks on a single charge and is good for around 12,000 pageviews.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/bebook-unveil-the-world-s-thinnest-e-ink-e-reader/019020