new pocketbook products?

[kacir]

Originally Posted by adrhc

Yes, PocketBook 912 announced:
http://www.pocketbook-usa.com/news/press/76.

What are those guys smoking?

I am NOT a native English speaker myself, but, come on ...

PocketBook Pro 912 with a safe for eyesight sensor display 9.7’’

Is this an automatic translation, that went to site unchecked? And this is, mind you, www.pocketbook-usa.com site.
Look at this specification:

Additional functions - Text-to-Speech, словари, виджеты, браузер, аудиопроигрыватель

There is also big factual error:
The headline of the press release talks about PocketBook Pro 612 and the press release talks about PocketBook Pro 912

[adrhc]

Originally Posted by Billi

And the German Pocketbook site offers this information:

http://www.pocketbook.de/news/press/75

They say PB912 has 10" byt I think is just a mistake, it's 9.7".

[Tony1988]

Originally Posted by rogue_librarian

Still no Pearl display? Incredible. A few more run off the mill tablets, though. Niiice.

Yeah weird. Sadly that means another year wait. WIth their excellent interface its a shame its not a pearl screen. Still though a good device regardless.

[Fbone]

Perhaps, they wanted to keep costs down by not using Pearl screens.

[Billi]

Or this is another sign of too few programmers in Kiev. Maybe they had to decide between pearl and pen support as they did not have the time or manpower to implement pearl and wacom touch together.
Onyx did make a similar decision, they produced one device with touch screen and without pearl and one device with pearl but without touch screen.

[rogue_librarian]

Originally Posted by Fbone

Perhaps, they wanted to keep costs down by not using Pearl screens.

Yeah, not to mention all the shipping costs they will save when nobody buys their products. I mean, seriously: they are a specialist producer in an already niche market. People will pay a premium for their products if they feel they're getting their money's worth. But technology of yesteryear at today's prices? Good luck with that.

The reason I am buying a dedicated reader is, above all, the screen and the e-ink technology. And, yes, I want the best available version. You know, the one that Kindle et al. have been having for quite some time now. Yes, I want a Pearl screen.

[eLiNK]

Originally Posted by rogue_librarian

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The reason I am buying a dedicated reader is, above all, the screen and the e-ink technology. And, yes, I want the best available version. You know, the one that Kindle et al. have been having for quite some time now. Yes, I want a Pearl screen.

Hey, would not that mean Pearl HD?


as far as the Pocketbook products are concerned, I think they are trying to avoid the additional overhead related to switching to another platform.

In the Russian forum, there are many messages popping up from salespeople they are doing just fine with those out-of-dated products, which is based on the oversight that your sales are going to increase anyway in a growing market being far from saturation.

Good luck with this attitude on the western markets.

[Zetmolm]

Originally Posted by Billi

Onyx did make a similar decision, they produced one device with touch screen and without pearl and one device with pearl but without touch screen.

That is not quite true. Onyx does produce an A60 version with Pearl screen. Unfortunately this model seems to be sold only in Russia. You cannot buy it (yet?) in the US and the rest of Europe.

See here.

Edit: I looked again, and it seems the A60 Pearl is no longer sold in Russia either. However, my point of course was merely that Onyx never made the alleged choice.
BTW, some months ago Onyx signed a contract with the company that supplies the touch screen technology e.g. for the Sony readers. That means that in the not too distant future we can expect Onyx to release readers with this technology rather than the current Wacom touchscreens, and seeing that Onyx now focuses mainly on models with Pearl screens I don't see them going back to non-Pearl.

Why can't Pocketbook make similar choices?

"Technology of yesteryear at today's prices"? No, it's technology of yesteryear at prices of yesteryear. Today's prices would be a lot lower!

[Billi]

I know of the A60 Pearl and I don't think that this contradicts my post. Onyx first developed separately a no pearl/wacom and a pearl/no wacom device (90/91) and only afterwards combined these two features into one firmware (60).

[Dulin's Books]

Originally Posted by Zetmolm

Onyx does produce an A60 version with Pearl screen. Unfortunately this model seems to be sold only in Russia. You cannot buy it (yet?) in the US and the rest of Europe.

Not True

We have been selling the Pearl version of the A60 for a few weeks. I made an announcement here about it by the moderators thought it was too much like advertising. i did add the announcement to an already existent thread here

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...03#post1717903

http://www.dulinsbooks.com/ereader/b...pearl-display/

and sold off the few remaining non Pearl i had in the deals/freebies section

The Pearl version of the X60 is also available to us but we dont get many inquiries about that style so I havent offered it yet.

[OtterBooks]

Originally Posted by rogue_librarian

Yeah, not to mention all the shipping costs they will save when nobody buys their products.

That made me lol.

[Dulin's Books]

Originally Posted by Zetmolm

Why can't Pocketbook make similar choices?

This is conjecture only. I have no confirmation if this is true. But I suspect the reason Onyx and others are now able to "leapfrog" to Pearl is that PocketBook bought the remaining lot of Vizplex displays.

It would have been advantageous for PocketBook because they would have negotiated a very good price so as to extend their margin but risky as they may have stock sitting while competitors are able to offer the latest tech.

[Sil_liS]

Originally Posted by Dulin's Books

It would have been advantageous for PocketBook because they would have negotiated a very good price so as to extend their margin but risky as they may have stock sitting while competitors are able to offer the latest tech.

I can only hope that they jump to color eink next.

[Dulin's Books]

they were already in the que right behind Hanvon from my understanding.

[Sil_liS]

Originally Posted by Dulin's Books

they were already in the que right behind Hanvon from my understanding.

But I'm guessing that it will take some time. It's not just a matter of switching the screen, the software will have to make use of the colours. They didn't even make colour icons for the IQ.