Hasta La Gadget!

If you’ve found yourself somewhat irked by the Kindle‘s lackluster organizing abilities, you clearly aren’t alone. A post by The Kindle Team over on Facebook has made clear that Amazon is aware of the shortcoming, and it’s currently toiling away on a “better way to organize your growing Kindle libraries.” No details are given about the forthcoming solution, but the team does confess that it’ll be released as an over-the-air update “in the first half of next year.” Huzzah?

[Thanks, Anthony]

Amazon promises update to better ‘organize Kindle libraries’ originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Amazon and Barnes & Noble may be swiping the limelight, but Sony’s clearly playing for keeps with its $399 Reader Daily Edition. The 7-inch e-book reader has just been listed for pre-order over at SonyStyle, and with it will come wireless access (via AT&T) to the company’s own eBookstore. We’re told that the company will “announce newspaper and magazine content providers within the next month,” and of course, no monthly fees will be tacked on from browsing and buying books. If plans stay on track, we should see the first shipments leave next month — so, is Santa treating you with one, or what?

Update: Looks like not everyone will snatch one of these before that fateful day in December, so we’d suggest either settling on a Kindle / Nook or preparing your wallet to deal with ‘Tickle Me Elmo’ levels of eBay insanity.

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Sony’s 3G-enabled Reader Daily Edition up for pre-order, content deals coming next month originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’re still reserving our doubts about the viability of the enTourage eDGe — after all, at $490 you can buy yourself a respectable netbook and a halfway decent ereader for the appropriate occasion — but we won’t say that we’re not interested. Just under a month after it hit the scene, the dual-screen device has landed (in prototype form) over at Gearlog, and while some of the features weren’t functional, the physical build shouldn’t change much when it goes final. At first glance, the whole thing just looks a bit dated, but then again, we’ve still got the ultra-fresh Nook on the brain. Hit the read link to have a look yourself, won’t you?

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Dual-screen enTourage eDGe ebook reader gets a little hands-on time originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sungale isn’t exactly the biggest, most well-known name in consumer electronics, but it’s sure trying to make a run with the big boys. A few months after introducing its own WiFi digiframe, the company is hitting back with a hybrid ereader / PMP device that just seems to be caught somewhere in the middle. Boasting a 7-inch color LCD display (800 x 480), the Cyberus ID700WTA can handle most popular multimedia and ebook formats — from PDF to DivX, it’s (pretty much) all covered. It also touts integrated WiFi, support for streaming media from a home network and a built-in clock / calender. There’s also the ability to fetch “online news, weather reports, stock prices and charts, maps and traffic routes, YouTube clips, internet radio, Picasa and Gmail,” so we’re going out on a limb here and suggesting that some sort of web browser or cadre of inbuilt apps are also included. It’s available now around the web for $279, and yes, that snazzy leather case is bundled in.

Continue reading Sungale’s 7-inch Cyberus ID700WTA is neither a PMP nor an ereader, really

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Sungale’s 7-inch Cyberus ID700WTA is neither a PMP nor an ereader, really originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Whether you love Elmo for his ability to make your kids sit quietly or hate him for his voice that’s about two steps away from fingernails on chalkboards, there’s no denying his popularity. His latest appearance is in this maple-stained electronic reader from Nokia called Storyplay. In these days of electronic ink and Kindle competitors, Espoo has taken something of a different tact here, designed to help kids and adults read together even when far apart. It has room in the middle for a removable paper book with magnets on each page to identify which is being shown, then on the top are two screens. One is continual footage of that most ticklish of Sesame Street characters, the other a live video stream from a remote parent, grandparent, or other floating head who can read along. The video below shows it all in action and, while the tech is compelling, it’s hard to see much of a market outside of parents with a wallet full of platinum frequent flier cards. Then again, we didn’t think the Booklet 3G would find success, so this will probably be the best selling thing ever.

Continue reading Elmo and Nokia join forces, meld kids’ books with teleconferencing for Storyplay (video)

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Elmo and Nokia join forces, meld kids’ books with teleconferencing for Storyplay (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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