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January 18th, 2010, 13:40
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/asus-e-reader-1.jpgReady for it? We've got more (and possibly less) on the color ASUS DR-570 e-book reader (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/17/asus-dr-570-e-reader-to-sport-6-inch-oled-color-screen-122-hour/) that stormed through our site over the weekend riding a wave of OLED anticipation. We now know that in addition to WiFi, 3G, and 122-hour real world battery life, we can expect lighting quick 0.03 second page turns (that's about 23 times faster than the Kindle and its peers as you'd expect from a non E Ink display), 124 x 170 x 8.8-mm / 200-g footprint, 4GB of onboard storage with SDHC expansion, 512MB of SDRAM, and 1,530mAh battery. It also brings a built-in RSS reader, audio/video/Flash player, text to speech engine (presumably the Svox like the DR-950 (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/asus-dr-950-9-inch-touchscreen-e-reader-brings-text-to-speech-an/)), and built-in web browser when it hits before the end of the year. There's also a hint of online video streaming support via Amazon video on demand, 3D gaming and navigation (picture Blio (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/blio-e-reader-software-hands-on/) page turning emulation), "One stop shopping for books, video, music," and explicit support for ePub, PDF, txt, MP3, MP4, AVI content formats.
The one thing we can't confirm is the 6-inch OLED display; our data simply calls it the "world's first 5.7-inch colorful eBook Reader" and we've heard rumors that Sipix (the panel of choice for the DR-950) is expected to ship a color electronic ink display in 2010. Doubt they'll achieve 0.03 second refreshes with that though. Stay tuned as we dig deeper.ASUS DR-570 color e-book reader gets detailed (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/asus-dr-570-color-e-book-reader-gets-detailed/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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The one thing we can't confirm is the 6-inch OLED display; our data simply calls it the "world's first 5.7-inch colorful eBook Reader" and we've heard rumors that Sipix (the panel of choice for the DR-950) is expected to ship a color electronic ink display in 2010. Doubt they'll achieve 0.03 second refreshes with that though. Stay tuned as we dig deeper.ASUS DR-570 color e-book reader gets detailed (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/asus-dr-570-color-e-book-reader-gets-detailed/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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