More details for the txtr emerge!

[CommanderROR]

A new press release from the makers of the txtr just arrived and gives us some more tidbits of information.

The most important news here is that txtr will be cooperating with e-plus and ecotel to bring Kindle-like on-the-go bookshopping capabilities to the txtr.
No exact details like prices and terms of use have surfaced yet, but the news that somebody has managed to form this kind of deal in Germany is already quite an amazing feat in itself!

The other exciting news is that the txtr will be launched on the Franfurt Book Fair on the 14. of Octobre 2009. All information about prices, subsription fees and content will become available then. It's another date to look forward to!

The attached .pdf is in german, if somebody feels like translating it he's welcome to...

[Nate the great]

nevermind

[CommanderROR]

Got it yesterday, I just noticed that I attached the wrong one...
Thanks for pointing it out Nate!

[Nate the great]

According to Google:

Berlin, 25 August 2009 - Now it is official: The Berlin-based startup makes up txtr in partnership with
E-Plus and the Ecotel txtr reader online use. Users of the digital reader will still
this year to purchase easily and comfortably on the road from the bookstore txtr and eBooks
can synchronize their data stored on txtr.com documents easily and quickly.
The company now offers the first open and portable solution for storing,
Publish and share digital texts and the acquisition of books and
commercial documents to.

Browsing, shopping, syncing, reading: Even today, and we use daily on a large amount
different types of digital texts. By txtr reader is on the E-Plus wireless connection
Future possible anytime, anywhere easy and always up to date synchronized to eBooks
access and take as example, a complete library on the road. And that is
not all: Each owner of an txtr readers will in the future, the nationwide E-Plus network
can use two ways. On the one convenient for the search, convenient shopping and
fast delivery of eBooks on txtr bookstore, the other for the practical
Synchronization with txtr.com txtr readers. The navigation in txtr bookstore and the delivery of
purchased document will remain here for free. Only in the synchronization of digital texts,
Publications and books between the reader and the platform covered by a test-month
appropriate charges for data transfer.

Fast, reliable, energy-efficient: The cellular connection is time for launch on
nationwide developed Eplus-EGDE network realized. This ensures that the
Services both in urban areas than in rural areas work perfectly. With Download
Speeds of up to 260kBit / s txtr offers an ideal data throughput for all types of
digital documents. At the same time is a proven technology which is also very good in
Building works. "Our goal was always to maximum mobility in a high degree of
To offer reliability and energy efficiency, "said Andreas Steinhauser, CTO and co-founder of txtr.
"With E-Plus and Ecotel we have found the right partner."

Launch Frankfurt Book Fair 2009: The exact prices for the reader and the txtr
different pricing models for mobile phone packages and subscriptions will be as scheduled on 14/10/2009
announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair - the only international roaming is to launch yet
not be possible. With its open, independent and mobile txtr structure provides a coherent and
modern approach to digital content - making it the perfect starting position in one of the
exciting future markets of the world.

About txtr GmbH
txtr is a young and innovative start up in Berlin, in 2008, including Andreas Steinhauser
and Frank Rieger was founded. Both entrepreneurs have already successfully called the gate5 AG, he established an
Software company for route planning and navigation software for mobile phones and so-called Personal Navigation
Devices. gate5 different founders won competitions and was later sold to Nokia, where today the
National multimedia development forms. With the announcement in 2009, called txtr Reader reader, the
digital reading on paper as possible and in cooperation with E-Plus with the existing
Online platform and community txtr.com text is linked, the company offers the first open solution
to store, publish and share digital texts and books with full mobility. The goal of txtr
is to deal with text, the possibilities expand, and open content and the user's own documents
To make everywhere and always accessible and editable. In time for the launch of the txtr readers will be a
Shop at txtr.com A comprehensive digital book program with titles of major German publishing houses offer.
txtr not believe in the end of the book, but in a world of expanded possibilities of reading --
love shaped by people's books.

[CTH]

I am really looking forward to this reader. Not because of the online stuff, it prob wont work here in sweden anyway but rahter because of the design and the quickness it is suppose to have.

[lee1234]

are they planning to sell in the states?

[CommanderROR]

Not at first, maybe later on, who knows.

[FBoespflug]

At least a new device in and for Europe! Iam looking forward to seeing all the specifications and the price. Perhaps it will be "my Ebook", who knows?

[FBoespflug]

Sorry! I did not want to say "at least", but "at last"!

[igorsk]

Originally Posted by FBoespflug

Sorry! I did not want to say "at least", but "at last"!

That's why your posts have an "Edit" button

[FBoespflug]

Sorry! I did not want to say "at least" but "at last"!

[FBoespflug]

According to the attached PDF 3G will work only in Germany at the beginning, because Eplus and Ecotel are german firms.

[noonscoomo]

Originally Posted by FBoespflug

According to the attached PDF 3G will work only in Germany at the beginning, because Eplus and Ecotel are german firms.

It is not simlocked!

[DG25]

Will it have built-in dictionary, like the Sony and Kindle have? I have a feeling it won't have...

[noonscoomo]

Originally Posted by DG25

Will it have built-in dictionary, like the Sony and Kindle have? I have a feeling it won't have...

Not from the early beginning, but dictionary and wikipedia is definitively one of the very next features.