As expected after this morning’s report, Plastic Logic have officially confirmed that the launch of the QUE ebook reader will be delayed until Summer 2010. In an official statement from company CEO Richard Archuleta, the decision is described as “to fine-tune the features and enhance the overall product experience.”
Plastic Logic are promising free shipping to preorder customers as an apology for the delay; the QUE was originally expected to ship in mid-April 2010. The device – which uses an E Ink display like other ebook readers, but paired with a unique plastic backplane of Plastic Logic’s own design – is being positioned as a business device, with pricing to match. Full story...
Welcome to the special holiday weekend edition of the SlashGear Week in Review. It was another busy week in the world of things electric and geeky so let’s get right to it.
iriver’s Cover Story (aka the iriver Story Touch Edition) has a tough slog ahead of it. On the plus side there’s the resistive touchscreen over the 6-inch E Ink display, all in a relatively compact body that our hands-on at IFA 2010 found to be pleasantly thin and light; on the downside, it’s set to cost more than €200 ($258) when it arrives in Europe and Asia, a fair chunk more than a Kindle yet lacking either 3G or WiFi connectivity.
TerraTec have plowed away at the internet radio segment, and their new NOXON iRadio 500 is a slick example of the breed.
E-Noa’s Tegra 2 based Interpad was one of those tablets we harboured quiet doubts over back in July, uncertain whether the company could beat big-name rivals to the market with their Android 2.
Let me just get this out of the way now: I don’t like the new Apple TV. I don’t like that it doesn’t feature on-board storage.
We’re big Sleek Audio fans here at SlashGear, and we’ve known the company has been cooking up something special for the past six months or so.
LG’s 31-inch OLED TV may not be the biggest set at IFA 2010 this week, but it certainly stands a chance of being the brightest and most color-rich.
Apple announced today that in less then 48 hours since its launch on Wednesday, more than one million consumers have joined Ping.
It’s been a couple of months since the last batch of MeeGo User Interface screenshots broke cover.
Steve Jobs rattled off a lot of numbers at Wednesday’s event. As an analyst I like statistics and making sense of statistics.