Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Released e-book reader with a color screen.

The company Fujitsu has released the world's first device for reading electronic books with a color touch screen of the electronic paper. It is called Flepia, and was first announced in 2008. This was reported in the press release Fujitsu.
The maximum number of colors displayed screen of the device - 260 thousand. It is made of electronic paper. Minimum update the image on the screen Flepia - 1,8 seconds, maximum - eight seconds.
Diagonal screen Flepia equal to eight inches, its resolution - 1024x768 pixels. The size of the device comprise 158h240h12, 5 mm, weight - 385 grams.
For storage of books Flepia owners are encouraged to use the SD memory card formats of up to four gigabytes. This is enough to accommodate about five thousand books. Time autonomous work Flepia - forty hours.
To load data into Fujitsu Flepia can be used as a wired connection to a PC, and wireless communications. The device has a module Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Currently Flepia available in Japan for 99,750 yen, or about a thousand dollars. Start Flepia sales in other regions are not reported.
Currently, the device for reading electronic books based on the electronic paper released several companies, including Sony and Amazon. However, until Fujitsu Flepia in any of these chitalok e-books was not a color screen.
The device for reading electronic documents Fujitsu Flepia was announced in October 2008. About his development of the representatives of Fujitsu announced in spring 2008. In mid-February 2009 it has been tested by visitors to the restaurant Termina Kinshicho Fujiya. While waiting for an order they can read on the screen Flepia, such as a newspaper.

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