With the number of e-reader and tablet hybrids being introduced in the market these days, you might get confused as to which one to get. Well, you can always check our previous posts here as we’ve featured quite a few choices this year. However, if what you want is something that is quite distinctive from the rest, then you may have to wait a couple of weeks more because in January, ECTACO jetBook Color will be due for just $500.
Equipped with a 9.7-inch, 1600X1200 Triton Color E Ink display and a Wi-Fi connection, this e-reader is actually a re-brand of China’s Hanvon reader that is available in Eastern Europe. Originally, this product was only focused on the education market since students no longer want bulky notebooks to keep track of their schedules or check homework. But because of its success in Eastern Europe, this will be released soon worldwide so that everyone, students and none-students alike, will be able to take advantage of this product that will eventually replace all paper textbooks.
Here’s the summary of features that you can expect from this colored e-reader:
* Triton Color E Ink screen
* 9.7″ Display
* 1600×1200 resolution
* Load Your Own Content
* Support for: Adobe DRM 9.1, ePub, Mobi, PRC, RTF, TXT, PDF, FB2, djvu, JPG, Gif, PNG, BMP (more to come)
* Wi-Fi enabled with browser
* Fluent Text-to-Speech can read you any book
* 10,000 page turns on a single charge
* Support via microSD for up to 32GB
* Sleek protective carrying case included
* Underline and highlight text
* 50-state reading list
* Fully interactive SAT course
* “Overdrive” library access
* Wireless access to online textbooks, www.ck12.org and other resources
* Speed Reading course
* Talking Oxford Dictionaries
* Course of English and foreign language grammar
* Speech recognition and speech analysis Language Teacher and U-Learn courses that teach you a language step by step
* Pictured dictionaries for 38 languages
* Cross translator for 180 languages
* Vocabulary Builder
* Linguistic Crosswords
* Reference materials for Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography and Earth Science
* Interactive Periodic Table of Elements
* Graphing and scientific calculators
January isn’t too far for you to get this gadget. But feel free to check out more ECTACO jetBook products here!
Bring on the heat! The new Amazon Kindle Fire tablet just redefined what it means to be the hottest new gadget around. This 7-inch e-book reader-slash-tablet is a far cry from the original Kindle. For starters, as compared to the previous Kindle’s monochromatic E Ink Pearl Display, Kindle Fire features a 1024 x 600 colored multi-touch screen sporting 16 million colors, anti-reflective coating, and In-Plane Switching (IPS) technology for a more vibrant display and wider viewing angle. Its screen is no Gorilla but it’s chemically hardened to be 20 times more rigid and 30 times harder than conventional plastic for added durability and scratch resistance. Furthermore, the latest Amazon Kindle is no longer just limited to reading e-books and other electronic fine prints. Like all modern tablets, it can also play video and audio files, run games and other applications, surf the web, process and port emails, and stream popular movies and TV shows.
Amazon Kindle Fire is a complete information and entertainment hub powered simply by touch. 
Its simple interface allows user to view, listen, and explore their favorite digital content with relative ease. From its home page, one can subscribe, buy, and access full-colored interactive magazines such as Vanity Fair, Wired, and GQ, over 100,000 movies and commercial-free TV shows, 17 million songs, and Kindle tested applications and games – all from a single store: Amazon. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg; Bibliophile would surely love Amazon Kindle’s selection of over 1 million e-books and more than 1000 fully illustrated children’s book for sale, and over 2 million more pre-1923 books for free. 
Kindle Fire also comes with other freebies like free cloud storage courtesy of Amazon Cloud, a month’s subscription of Amazon Prime, and Amazon’s new revolutionary cloud-accelerated browser – Amazon Silk. This exclusive browser, backed by Amazon Web Services and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, boasts powerful back end computing, persistent connection, page indexing, machine learning, and faster loading times.
Kindle Fire loses out to the earlier Kindle models only in terms of battery life, the latter can last up to three weeks and even up to two months while the former, with its high resolution colored multi-touchscreen, can only sustain continuous reading for up to 8 hours and movie playback up to 7.5 hours. That aside, Amazon’s Kindle Fire is probably one of the most promising tablets out there that can easily stand on its own in a sea of branded eBooks readers, tablet PCs, and iPad wannabes. 
Just when iPad releases a big leap from iPad to iPad 2, Barnes & Noble recently introduced the All New NOOK, The Simple Touch Reader. This latest addition to the NOOK product line is designed not just to follow the success of the NOOK 1st Edition™ but claims to be the easiest-to-use, most optimized, and dedicated reading device ever created.
There are a lot of things that you can do with an E-book than a classic paperback, and a million more with NOOKCOLOR ereader. This new contender in the eBook market has a few things on its sleeves that set it apart from the competition. It features an exclusive VividView color touch screen that makes reading a more appealing experience. The 7-inch screen uses only the best in display technology with more than 16 million colors and wider viewing angle. The Library of Congress holds around 142,544,498 reading materials, NookColor boasts a near limitless library with its 8 GB of storage space and its Lifetime Library feature that securely “shelves” your electronic books so that you can always get back to it anytime and anywhere. With NookColor you’re not only limited to eBooks, its integrated Wi-Fi will allow you access to one of the greatest source of information up to date – the Internet. 
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