Thread: Astak Mentor eBook readers with WiFi and Touchscreen (read-only)
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Old 03-20-2009, 11:17 PM   #1620
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Originally Posted by Robertb View Post
Dear EMU:

To try to condense everything, Astak announced 7 months or so ago that we were going to sell two lines of eBook Readers: EZ Reader and Mentor. The two lines are built by two different factories. They will be in 5 inch, 6 inch, and 9.7 inch. The first release was the rock-solid EZ Reader Basic in 6 inch. While greatly received at MobileRead Forum on the whole, Astak is not a Sony or a Kindle. People on the forum seem to have really liked the first model and new models in both lines (maybe 5-7) will be coming out in the next 8 months. Think of Astak as David and a certain other eBook Reader manufacturer as Goliath. We are small... but we try to be honest and open... and we think we hold no second-fiddle to anybody as far as having a great eBook Reader. We have always asked the readres of MobileRead to make suggestions and comments and recommendations and they have been many. Some have been adopted and one reader named our new EZ Reader 9.7 inch the "EZ Reader TRUE". We have discussed Touchscreen, resolution, note-taking, 3G versus Wi-Fi and more openly. Now we have a new website being born in two weeks (www.goEZebook.com) and are just showing samples of new custom cases and lighting for the screens. WHEH!!!

That pretty well brings you up to date!

WECOME to the thread, my friend!

Robert B
Well, thanks for the summary, now we need that on the first page for the newcomers...
btw: I was here almost from the start, mostly reading and only very seldom writing, so it wasn't for me, but for the confused newcomers

Also I have to inform you, that I have no connection with Pixel Qi, I was just wondering, if that wouldn't be a great thing for Astak. Maybe you better remove the phonenumber, befor the web catches it

I think Pixel Qi plans to run over the whole market in Q3 09. It is really hard to get infos about their new technology, but it definitley sounds astonishing....and they seem to be very confident about the impact their technology will have.
I think the new OLPC will have that new display...

"Lots of people ask us if we are working on netbooks or ebooks.

The answer is: both." March 16th on http://www.pixelqi.com/blog1/
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