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Originally Posted by 6charlong
I can't find it now, but someone posted a link to a reader being sold in Ukraine. It had a 5-inch Visplex screen with two large buttons on the right side. I seem to remember that it was made by Netronix.
Also, there was a 5-inch reader shown with a Q2 2009 release date shown on the Netronix page ( http://www.netronixinc.com/product_e-book.htm). Two questions:
1. If the Ukrainian reader is a Netronix design, can it handle an English OS and can it be sold here? Those two, large right-hand buttons were a brilliant ergonomic addition, similar to the EB1150.
2. Is Astak still planning to sell a 5-inch Mentor in the US?
Oh. And about giving light to old people (i.e., people who need good light to read by). The wedge light cover Sony makes for the 505 makes the difference between a substantially better way to read than pbooks, and merely an alternative to pbooks. Can Astak get Sony to make the wedge for your readers? Failing that, can someone reverse engineer the wedge for your products? The light wedge works better than back lighting or any of the six or seven book lights I've ever tried. It works substantially better than any book light I've ever used with a pbook, too. |
Dear 6charlong:
I cannot reverse engineer; but Astak is looking at several different lighting options.
Netronix has contracts for all of their 5 inch devices. We still hope to release a 5 inch device; but it looks like it will not be Netronix.
The Ukranian eBook Reader is built by Netronix but is not a Netronix design. It belongs to the Ukranian company, and we would have to purchase it from them. They paid a substantial NRE fee to have 20,000 of them built.
Sorry.