Man, are people into reading, or what? Hot on the heels of the
BeBook Mini launch in the US and news that
Barnes & Noble could be introducing an e-reader of its own as early as next week, Endless Ideas is now rumored to have its BeBook 2 on deck for an October 14th release. And considering that it has a booth at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week, we'd say there's at least a decent chance that the rumors are true. If you'll recall, we snagged the
first look at the company's first-ever 3G / WiFi-equipped e-book reader back at CeBIT in March (pictured above), and considering that there can really never be enough competition in the space, we'll take the promised touchscreen and free RSS support any way we can get it. We'll be cautiously watching the action tomorrow for a full reveal, and we'd recommend you do as well -- besides, it's not like that
International Kindle is shipping before next week anyway.
posted Oct 13th 2009 6:39PM
Damn feed headline tease got me thinking this was about a BeOS netbook...I was prepared to have my mind blown back to the 90's
After this the other day:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/16/haiku-alpha-1-available-now-beos-lovers-of-the-world-rejoice/
I thought the same thing ...
The other day? That's almost a month ago.
I sort of got excited. It would be neat to see BeOS on a device nowadays.
seriously came here to post this. bebook, seriously sounds related to BeOS and the Be Box.
That thing looks like an Apple Newton. Crazy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Newton_and_iPhone.jpg
Not seeing any resemblance ...
@oGMo
This picture is probably a better model to compare it to:
http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/ne/p/2008/newton1_575x600.jpg
I can see a vague similarity but i wouldn't have mistaken the two by any means.
nice cursive g's
Maybe Apple will finally buy it as their new OS.
In a dutch show they tested a couple of e-readers two weeks ago. At the end of the item they said BeBook was sad to come in at the 5th place, because they would indeed be launching a new reader October 14th. They said other newly released readers where compared to their old reader.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvqJDhpgIJk
The top 5, made up by grannies, students and an 'expert', was:
1. Sony PRS-600
2. PRS-300
3. CyBook
4. Cool-ER
5. BeBook
I'm interested in the PRS-600, but the PRS-900 and the Barnes & Noble reader could be interesting as well.
BeOS???
It's great that Amazon kicked all this eReader stuff off with the Kindle. Regardless of whether the Kindle becomes a success or not, it spurred a lot of companies to jump on the eReader bandwagon. It would be nice for these devices to replace books that students have to lug to school on a daily basis.