Comments on: Alex Android eReader: 2 Screens, 1 Touch

By: nook eReader by Barnes & Noble is Android Based! | Android Phone Fans

nook eReader by Barnes & Noble is Android Based! | Android Phone Fans — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:41:06 +0000

[...] we totally number two-ed on an eReader called “Alex” for clumsily including a second screen. We liked the enTourage eDGe a little more. But as you can [...]

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:20:09 +0000

I kind of like the idea and I can see what they are going for… but the smaller screen just takes away from the size of the reading screen (which you would think you would want to be as large as possible). Again, it’s a cool idea.. but I’m not sure it really works.

By: Till

Till — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:14:34 +0000

The concept makes sense, but the design is clunky and awful. The device will either be too long, or the e-ink display will be too short. Now, if they could somehow sandwich the e-ink display together with a typical color touchscreen, that would be neat. And probably very expensive.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:05:03 +0000

I have never owned an eReader, but this does make sense to me for use in certain cases. I’d imagine a student could get great use out of this, for example. You could read your texts on the eink display but if you wanted to look more deeply into a certain topic, you could easily flip on the lower android portion and cross reference to wikipedia, or use it to perform calculations or for note taking.

for the average daily reader, im sure a kindle type device would make much more sense though

By: Dave Kaufman - Techlife

Dave Kaufman - Techlife — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:17:34 +0000

“Users can capture and cache web content from their online experience on the LCD screen, and toggle to view it on the EPD screen without taxing the battery life.”

That says it all from the release. The 1.6 Battery Usage tool tells me that 50% of my battery is being drained by the screen/display.

This fixes that.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:12:16 +0000

I think someone hit the turbo button on the server. Images loading fast, as well as pages! Thanks!

By: james

james — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:10:40 +0000

All I got from the press release was that Google and co found a way to put Adsense into books.

Fail.

By: swehes

swehes — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:10:11 +0000

Pictures are working finally!! Yay. Thanks for the fixing. Now I have to go back and read the articles again.

By: ardichoke

ardichoke — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:53:39 +0000

I kind of like the idea of having 2 screens. From the photo, I’d say the larger screen is an eink display similar to the kindle and many other ebook readers. While this is great for text, eink can’t do color. Thus the smaller screen for things like images. Makes perfect sense to me as long as they don’t try and make the device too small. If it’s a decent size I think there will be room for both screens and it could provide a very functional device.

By: MOEMAN

MOEMAN — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:41:13 +0000

Can they actually make a touch screen EPD display? I figured they did this so they could get touch screen AND the EPD display. I didn’t think they could do it all on one screen yet. But I haven’t really looked around much. I don’t read enough non-school books to need one of these.

By: tke789

tke789 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:30:04 +0000

I remember seeing on another Android website (while Phandroid was down last week) a Youtube clip where a Barnes & Nobles guy said they were teaming up with Plasitc Logic (http://www.plasticlogic.com/) for their eReader. I don’t know the validity of that statement or if their reader will be Android based or not.

By: AGx-07_162

AGx-07_162 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:06:41 +0000

Idk, i think the thing looks cool.

By: Alberto

Alberto — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:00:47 +0000

WHATS WRONG WITH THE PICTURE IN THIS WEBSITE????

STARTS TO BECOME VERY ANNOYING!!!!!