Samsung E101

[vxf]

What's up with Samsung? I mean, I saw an E60 (or is it E61? - anyhow, the one with the sliding screen) in a store - and it sure looks like a sturdy device, fast, with some intuitive menus, very light... in short, I like it.

But I did notice that the screen flashes very noticeably... certainly worse than the current generation of ebook readers...

Anyhow, that got me curious and so I googled a bit and found plenty of places talking about the Samsung E101. And... wow, that looks like what I want. IN short, an open-format, big screen device on which I can annotate... I mean, a touch-screen...

I am currently using a PRS900 and I just want the same thing, with a bigger screen. The Samsung seems to be it...

Now, the really weird thing. When I looked it up last night, I found the device being sold on one single place - Dell.UK (huh???). For Euro 269, if I remember correctly. Which is a lot, but I would have bought it anyhow. Yet, today, I can't find it anywhere - all the sites I see are dates January and talk about some unspecified future release date...

Any info?

And, most importantly, did I end up in a time-warp? Did my internet travel into the future last night? Dell.UK has no trace of the Samsung today.

[Geppetto]

I remember that when they showed it at CES 2010 they told the price for the E101 was 699 $, and the price for the E60 was 399 $.
Then they saw our faces (and listened to our reaction), so they said: "okay, the price of the E60 is 299 $" (in april).

Since CES, they did not talk anymore about the E101. Now, E60 is sold in Europe at 329 € (oh yeah).

I bet that 1) E101 will never be sold; 2) E60 will never be sold in the USA; 3) either they will replace the E60 model with another cheaper one (the "Kindlesque" E65?) or 4) they will leave the ereader market