A new Electronic Reader has just come out by a company named SmartDevices. It features a Ubuntu Linux operating system and a seven inch full color display SVGA touchscreen LCD! It has a resolution of 800×600 Pixels and has an ARM 11 Processor. The processor is around 600 MHZ and has 256 MB of DDR 2 memory.
You can also surf the internet on this little device, with WI-FI or 3G! You can watch video and listen to music as well. If you are looking to watch video it has a great Multi-Media player that reads AVI, XVID, MOV, TS, MPEG and will give you sweet 1080P HD quality.
This device is being marketed as a E-Book and E-Magazine E-Reader and reads a ton of different popular formats, such as; PDF, EPUB, TXT, HTML, RTF and more. It has 2 GB of internal storage for your books and can support up to 32 GB via SD Card.
Not only is this device a dandy little E-Reader but it also has powerful office functions to do some work while on the go. It features a AbiWord word processor, Gnumeric Spreadsheet, and a notes application. You can also take takes via the internal microphone.
We find the big thing lacking in this device is the battery life, you are limited to 8 hours of reading, or 4 hours of video and internet browsing. Also, the LCD screen is not suitable for reading during the day.
This E-Reader Retails for around 289.99 and is available at the Ownta website.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
