We received word (thanks Eric!) of a new e-reader device launched in South Korea today. Take the hardware case of the STAReBOOK (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=125) and equip it with the latest technology E Ink currently has to offer, and what you get is the NUUT eBook Reader (http://nuutbook.com/). And while it's not the size of its screen that is going to impress your friends (6-inch is de facto standard today), it's most likely to be the doubled refresh speed and the 20 percent boost in brightness compared to previous E Ink readers.

The Vizplex Imaging Film (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10780) technology was only recently introduced by E Ink.

The specs:

Weight: 178g
Screen: E Ink Vizplex (6-inch / 168dpi / 600x800 pixels)
CPU: ARM-compatible 32bit RISC CPU (250Mhz) operated at 200MHz
Memory: 8MB (Boot ROM) + 32MB (SDRAM) + 512MB (RAM)
Battery: Li-ion (one charge for 7'500 pages)
Expansion Slots: SD Card
Other Interfaces: USB 2.0, headphone


Street price will be around US$300.

If you can figure out which e-books format the NUUT supports, feel free to comment here.

this 20% of brightnesss i suposse it's compared to the sony reader or the STAREBOOK

and about the iliad¿?¿? the same brightness, less , more ?¿?¿?

anybody

The Bookeen reader will most likely use Vizplex too (that's what PVI will be producing from now on).

The Bookeen reader will most likely use Vizplex too (that's what PVI will be producing from now on).

That's great news, Hadrien. Makes me wonder when Sony is going to upgrade the production line of the Reader to build on Vizplex. :stunned:

Well... if PVI still makes the panels for Sony, and if Hadrien is right in that they will only produce with Vizplex technology from now on, then we can suspect future Sony Readers to feature that technology as well.

So, is it time to sell my Reader?

great news...another ereader!

New eink technology is also cool...the interesting thing now would be when/how this thing will be sold in US and Europe... ;)

The price seems pretty attractive in comparison...but it's still rather high. Format support should be the interesting part here...if it can offer a broad base of open formats and maybe mobipocket as DRM then it should sell very well.

I'm not an expert on hardware issues at all (there's more than enough work with software), but from what a few people in the industry told me, the screen itself is basically the same, but the controller is different.

I'm not an expert on hardware issues at all (there's more than enough work with software), but from what a few people in the industry told me, the screen itself is basically the same, but the controller is different.

Vizplex also includes an enhanced imaging film compared to previous E Ink technology.

One of the Korean FAQ pages says :

NUUT supports commercial XML type e-books and TXT and mp3. Due to the small display size, PDF support is not being considered.

another page says :

XML is the de facto standard in Korean e-book market

Apprently LVD has a sample unit. Cyrillic doesn't look very nice.
http://www.the-ebook.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=85082#85082

Looks exactly like the stuff my STAReBOOK likes to do with english/german text...^^

actually...it looks exactly like the original STAReBOOK firmware...look at the little "paper-imitation" corners and everything...I think they just added a couple of fonts to the STAReBOOK...maybe it's just a .stk file being displayed?

Another steady step towards the ideal ebook... more so because it is now on sale in South Korea where I happen to live : ) But I would not sell my Librie off and get a NUUT for a replacement yet. Having used Librie for more than two years, now I know what exactly I expect from the ebook.

1) Despite the improvement of the refresh speed (allegedly up to double), I'm not convinced whether it would be as good as I want.

2) Maybe it's just me but some sort of SDK available for add-on development is a must from the experience with Librie. Andrew Jennings' simplereader on Librie plus SDK provided by Sony opened lots of doors to the support of popular formats which I believe are still ongoing. DRM-protected contents and a simple ASCII file viewer won't be enough.

I just read an article linked on the Teleread blog. According to 20minutes.fr (http://electronicpapercommunication.blog.20minutes.fr/archive/2007/06/16/neolux-debuts-nuut-first-e-book-device-with-electronic.html), the NUUT reader will be only $280. If that's the case, I can only hope that prices for the readers continue to drop and encourage hesitant buyers.

I just read an article linked on the Teleread blog. According to 20minutes.fr (http://electronicpapercommunication.blog.20minutes.fr/archive/2007/06/16/neolux-debuts-nuut-first-e-book-device-with-electronic.html), the NUUT reader will be only $280. If that's the case, I can only hope that prices for the readers continue to drop and encourage hesitant buyers.

Thanks for the link.

Content availability is a particularly attractive aspect of NUUT. As of today, over 300.000 volumes of e-books can be read on NUUT. That number is many times the largest number of e-book volumes available for any single e-book device previously.

300k volumes of e-books? And where do they get them from? :shrug:

Are you sure that 300,000 ebooks is more then the number of ebooks in Mobipocket format? The iLiad does support Mobipocket.

As a member of the Yahoo Fictionwise group I received the following details by email from another member who lives in Korea who had contacted the Nuut company to get more information:

At this time the device will only be offered for sale in Korea. It supports the Korean language, English, Japanese, and some traditional Chinese characters and may support some European characters. The device is designed to utilize the same drm that is used throughout Korea. The only outside format it accepts at this time is .txt. There are 3 font sizes and the ones shown on the website are the middle font size. At this time they will not be preparing the device for overseas sales. They have a lot of work to do before they are ready for that.

Apparently the parent company is an exporter of e-ink technology.

At least we know now that if we live outside of Korea, don't bother to waith for the NUUT NP-601. Thanks Moonraker for that.

Anyone heard anything more about these devices?

I live in Korea and I can't find it anywhere!

There is another one - the SORIBOOK, which looks much better. No luck finding it though.

THIS IS REALLY GOOD ONE

Does anyone actually have the Nuut so we can get some incites into it?

Forget about the NUUT - it's limited to a few formats. The SORIBOOK is the one you should be looking out for - but there's no word on that either!

Here is a link to the SORiBOOK.

http://www.soribook.com/index.jsp

Hmm ... Can anybody translate the SORIbook-Page to english?

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Use Korean to English translation.

Function: Electronic dictionary and the Korean alphabet English TTS (Text-To-Speech),
Electronic book/file pyu U, memoing and MP3 player
Support format: With the lower part which the user made mainly (self-published) it is same
Format support (different conversion without from terminal direct support)


Document file

: HTML, CHM and TXT, Oh wastefulness PDF, Microsoft DOC, PPT, XLS, RTF, IDPF epub (plan) and grudge khem HWP (plan)
Image file

: JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP and TIF (F)
Audio file

: MP3
Domestic charge
Electronic book

: kyo Step library (www.genomad.co.kr) (plan)

Provision contents: Sound north one zero zero one dictionary, pu li Tae ni car encyclopedia,
English volume contents Dvd of 20000 passports
(English-Korean and Korean-English Dictionary and Britannica Encyclopedia and about 20,000 English eBook Content Dvd)
The evening sunlight: 3rd generation 6 inch Eink panel (Vizplex), it sprouts, screen,
Arm CPU and the internal organs 1GB flash memory,
1000 mAh lithium ion batteries, outside market SD card 4GB until support
Come into the market: Detailed schedule common knowledge plan
(To be announced soon)
Price: 379,500 won ($399 USD)

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Use Korean to English translation.

Function: Electronic dictionary and the Korean alphabet English TTS (Text-To-Speech),
Electronic book/file pyu U, memoing and MP3 player
Support format: With the lower part which the user made mainly (self-published) it is same
Format support (different conversion without from terminal direct support)


Document file

: HTML, CHM and TXT, Oh wastefulness PDF, Microsoft DOC, PPT, XLS, RTF, IDPF epub (plan) and grudge khem HWP (plan)
Image file

: JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP and TIF (F)
Audio file

: MP3
Domestic charge
Electronic book

: kyo Step library (www.genomad.co.kr) (plan)

Provision contents: Sound north one zero zero one dictionary, pu li Tae ni car encyclopedia,
English volume contents Dvd of 20000 passports
(English-Korean and Korean-English Dictionary and Britannica Encyclopedia and about 20,000 English eBook Content Dvd)
The evening sunlight: 3rd generation 6 inch Eink panel (Vizplex), it sprouts, screen,
Arm CPU and the internal organs 1GB flash memory,
1000 mAh lithium ion batteries, outside market SD card 4GB until support
Come into the market: Detailed schedule common knowledge plan
(To be announced soon)
Price: 379,500 won ($399 USD)


LOL!!!:grin2: IOW, no!

Derek

Naa, PDFs might be big, but at least some compression is possible. So giving them the honorific "Oh wastefullness" .. might want to reserve that for BMP or similar...

Thanks ;)

LOL!!!:grin2: IOW, no!

Derek

:happydance:
Well since I don't speak Korean and English is my second language I think I did pretty good. btw Ignorance is my first language and I sometimes revert to it.
:grin2:

I've played with some of the translation sites by converting from say English to Russian and then back to English. It's amazing what you end up with.