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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home: E-book-friendly trend: $300 Touch Book netbook-tablet with detachable keyboard. Also: Onyx Boox’s evil text speech E Ink gizmo
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence: ARM tablet notebook - could be like Apple's
Gizmodo: Always Innovating Touch Book Now Has Working Accelerometer and Sticks to Fridge, But Not Totally Baked [Tablets]
Liliputing: Always Innovating Touch Book rotates, sticks to fridge, fails to slice or dice – Video
E-book-friendly trend: $300 Touch Book netbook-tablet with detachable keyboard. Also: Onyx Boox’s evil text speech E Ink gizmo
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
... on the device, including Google Android, Ubuntu, Angstrom, and Windows CE, though we would not recommend the latter. You are free to do whatever you want." Big question: Why not more powerful versions of Windows? Could this be a red flag?
E-book app angle: I can easily seem FBReader or perhaps eventually Stanza running on the Touch Book. Stanza would mean that the Touch Book could read eReader-DRMed books.
Related hardware info: Photo gallery, zipped photos of Touch Book, Gizmodo piece on it, preorder ...
ARM tablet notebook - could be like Apple's
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... We are just providing this for your consideration. We largely think Apple will move in the ARM direction for their ultra small portable devices this year. These images are from a company who are using similar hardware and are able to charge $299 for this device. Obviously this is a little boxy for Apple's taste but the internals would be comparable. ...
Always Innovating Touch Book Now Has Working Accelerometer and Sticks to Fridge, But Not Totally Baked [Tablets]
Gizmodo —
... doesn't highlight the direct issues, it has been reported that early complaints are related to manufacturing quality and slow touchscreen responses. One thing that does work is sticking the magnetic backed screen on the fridge. Oh yea, and the swiping through the OS and the accelerometer seem to work pretty well too. Oui, me still want to get one in my hands. [Always Innovating]
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Always Innovating Touch Book rotates, sticks to fridge, fails to slice or dice – Video
Liliputing —
... The Always Innovating Touch Book has been shipping for a few days now. And while early reports indicate that the tablet/netbook has kind of lousy build uality and obviously beta software, there are a few things it apparently does right. And the company’s CEO has posted a few videos that show those features off.
While the first report I saw indicated that the included magnets were barely strong enough to hold the Touch Book to a file cabinet or refrigerator, it looks like the problem was that the user left the magnets inside the ...
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