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Originally Posted by TadW
Some more details: - Battery size: 1,600 mAh
- Contrast ratio: 4:1 with a reflectivity of 30%.
- Formats: JPG, PDF, Word, Excel, HTML (Webbrowser)
- A dedicated website will be launched for the FLEPia to allow for content distribution of newspapers, magazines, books, etc.
- Target price for the consumer (!) editions: A5: ¥39,800 ($335), A4: ¥60,000 ($505).
- Planned sales: 1000 sample units in 2007 (launch in October 2007), 10000-20000 (including commercial models) in 2008
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If this is true, it will be a true heaven. The device by it's parameters is almost exactly what I am looking for.
However, I would doubt the planned sales figure, because the target segment of the market is very unclear - particularly for the A4 version. They are definitely not aiming it at e-books since (in my opinion) majority of the readers would consider it too big for that purpose.
Then, as it was said previously, they could aim more at the business customers. But since I think the core selling point of this device is still going to be EInk display, which for most of the business people probably won't be a killer, that also does not quite add up to me.
Finally, I can think of the academic sector and students generally, which looks suitable to me, but the question here transforms to whether there is so much money to be made in this sector.