It’s a little pricier than we’d first heard, but Hanvon’s colour e-ink eReader (the first-ever colour one) will go on sale in February in China for the equivalent of $US530 – and may launch internationally at a later date. [Digitimes]
The same Chinese company that took hammers to an apple-shaped ice-sculpture is claiming they have the first colour eReader using e-ink, due in China in March. Bet the battery life’s far greater than the Nook Color’s, which uses an LCD.
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What happens when a Windows 7 tablet takes on the iPad head to head in a series of every day usage battles? This video happens. Place your bets!
A surefire way to get people talking about your previously unheard-of brand? Beating a large Apple logo-shaped ice-sculpture with hammers. Job done.