Plastic Logic introduces 10.7" reader in Russia

[Dulin's Books]

there are similar technologies available to Amazon and other ebook reader manufacturers/sellers in the 6inch size

edit to add link for previous thread https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...highlight=drop

[Papi]

Interesting, that's one of the feature I would like to see in the new Kindle along with higher resolution. I wonder if Plastic Logic's device use the IR technology for the touch screen...What I don't like about this technology is the screen is a bit deeper in the bezel (comparing Kindle 3 to the Sony PRS 650, I prefer the screen being more "on top").

[rogue_librarian]

10.7 inch, unbreakable, IR touch ... nice. WinCE-based? Less so. Well, let's see who else build upon that hardware (WLAN would be nice). Interesting times ahead.

[Ben Thornton]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I much prefer the actual link since embedded YouTube doesn't allow full screen.

It does on some systems (e.g. the iPad).

I like the way these are manufactured by ninjas (1:40)

[Dulin's Books]

Originally Posted by rogue_librarian

10.7 inch, unbreakable, IR touch ... nice. WinCE-based? Less so. Well, let's see who else build upon that hardware (WLAN would be nice). Interesting times ahead.

Well one reason to use CE is the same reason Kindle has had a rough time in educational trials. Thats PDF mark-up and annotation support.

What about CE makes you see it as less desirable?

[rogue_librarian]

The hackability factor, mainly. And a healthy prejudice towards all operating systems coming out of Redmond, but I'm willing to work on that if required.

[Thierry.C]

Originally Posted by charleski

But with a wholesale price (12000 rubles = £250/€291) that's already about twice as much as current 6" readers at retail with tax I foresee a limited market.

The surface of a 4:3, 10.7" screen is more than three times bigger than the one of a 16:10, 6" screen...

Originally Posted by charleski

How many are going to buy this at the £300-350 it would cost after tax and retail markup?

Other 9.7" e-readers are priced as high or even higher than that, right?

Furthermore, I see some advantages for this one : bigger screen, resistant (a priori), lightweight, thin, finger-touch (but no digitizer...).
Maybe it's lacking Wifi and a micro-SD expansion slot but it has to have some drawbacks, too, in order to stimulate the competition, no?

Originally Posted by krish

Specs look impressive.
I would definitely buy one if they release this product for consumers. I lost my hope waiting for a good 9.7" eink reader.

Anyone knows if Plastic Logic intends to sell it outside Russia?
I've nothing against Cyrillic fonts, but I would have some difficulties...

Thierry

[eLiNK]

Originally Posted by Thierry.C

...
Anyone knows if Plastic Logic intends to sell it outside Russia?
I've nothing against Cyrillic fonts, but I would have some difficulties...

Thierry

Unfortunately, it is either Cyrillic fonts or Chinese hieroglyphs.
The choice is yours.

[Dulin's Books]

The articles already talk about the the availability of English menus/interface. The problem will be if they even intend to sell this version outside of Russian schools. It may be that the program limits where they can be purchased from so that it will be hard to get one except for school use. might have to find one of those teachers who received them who would be willing to "lose" theirs

[eLiNK]

Originally Posted by Dulin's Books

...It may be that the program limits where they can be purchased from so that it will be hard to get one except for school use. might have to find one of those teachers who received them who would be willing to "lose" theirs

with a factory not far from Moscow, the distribution channels would be much wider

But would it worth it?

[Hellmark]

This looks really cool. Hopefully they come stateside.

[Barty]

Are they getting some sort of deal/subsidy from the Russian govt?

I guess the US is broke, so we're not getting it

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Dulin's Books

Correct. Plastic Logic claim to fame is the ability to create plastic transistors. Using that tech they have been able to create and now manufacture plastic tft backplanes for displays. they marry their flexible plastic tft's to Einks front planes at their display production facility in Dresden Germany. They have recently been heavily financed by Rusnano and will break ground on a new facility in Zelenograd, Russia very soon

Ah, so there's the tie-in. Got it.

[Lode]

To breath a little life into this thread again, some more videos have been put on YT of the PL 100: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PZis...eature=related

Last night I contacted Plastic Logic asking when this will come out in Europe. For me it would be perfect. I would use my laptop for downloading and writing stuff, and then read it on this device, and make annotations where necessary.

I'll be back here if I get a response from PL.

It looks really sturdy, here a guy is even slamming the screen against the hard sharp corner of a table: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVr6v...eature=related

I wonder if one could scibble on it using a stylus instead of one's finger. The latter can be done: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHNfv...eature=related

[Kumabjorn]

Originally Posted by eLiNK

Unfortunately, it is either Cyrillic fonts or Chinese hieroglyphs.
The choice is yours.

Hieroglyphs are used in relation to ancient Egyptian writing, Chinese (and Japanese) orthography are usually called ideographs.