Entourage Edge e-reader shows off its softer-ware side on video

Can't get enough of the Entourage Edge? We feel you. It's easily a sight for sore eyes in the pool of me-too e-readers, and while we've learned that it has plenty of power under the hood to handle quite a few desirable tasks, we've yet to really see the software do its thing in any real capacity. Until now, of course. The video posted up after the break is as good a look of the inner workings as we've seen, and the company has contacted us directly to affirm that the Feburary 2010 ship date is still on track. To be honest, we're really digging what we're seeing on screen, but a premedidated demonstration and real-world usability are certainly horses of different hues. Here's hoping we get a tick to play with a production unit ourselves at CES, but till then, you know where to head.

[PhoenixGaia Posted Dec 7th 2009 7:37AM]

The concept is really interesting, of course - make the nook's two screens two actual display devices. The video, though, makes this thing look HUGE. Thick, bulky, giant bezel, cumbersome to use! I could not imagine breaking this out at the doctor's office or, God forbid, an airplane. How clunky.

[johnkzin Posted Dec 7th 2009 8:31AM]

@PhoenixGaia
The big clunky thing they use is clearly a prototype/pre-production development model. The sleeker (non-functional) one that they show but don't use is what the end product is supposed to look like.

[One Love Posted Dec 7th 2009 10:22AM]

More cow-Bezel!!

[JS Posted Dec 7th 2009 7:42AM]

Seriously there is no point of such a huge bezel surrounding the display surface .. why did they have to make the bexel so wide?

better if they made it thicker rather than so wide.

[jimlivingston Posted Dec 7th 2009 9:33AM]

@JS I believe the bezel is designed to be wide enough so you have someplace to place your fingers, other than on the screen.

[dds1043 Posted Dec 7th 2009 7:50AM]

seems too slow for actual note taking.
I'd rather have a small color screen like the nook to search for notes. This seems like a bomb. We'll see in time though.

[Ted2 Posted Dec 7th 2009 7:58AM]

Hopefully they can squeeze in a little more bezel before the final launch.

[chowdmouse Posted Dec 7th 2009 10:29AM]

@Ted2

"We need more BEZEL!"

[johnkzin Posted Dec 7th 2009 8:30AM]

Still the device I'm most looking forward to, in the next 6 months. If there aren't any big surprises (Apple MacTablet (MacTablet, not a giant iPod Touch Tablet)? Nokia Maemo Tablet?) then I plan to get this in February.

[manIK Posted Dec 7th 2009 8:47AM]

"trying... trying trying... thinking... government..."

So basically, it'll never happen.

[EzB Posted Dec 7th 2009 9:03AM]

That looks so slow. I love the idea, but my God, I couldn't use something that slow in med school. We move too fast and that think can't keep up. Will wait for Asus tablet. Unless Asus turns to the darkside and subsidizes it forcing people to buy crummy Sprint contracts for data service

[Hackettman Posted Dec 7th 2009 9:28AM]

Eh this and courier have about the same chances for success..... Since this will be less expensive than the courier....

[KidDynamic Posted Dec 7th 2009 2:51PM]

@(Unverified) I agree. The form factors are similar. I suspect it will all come down to the software. Although the Courier's still vaporish, its software looks much much more refined and useful.

Maybe Entourage should use the Courier SW. ?

[genomecop Posted Dec 7th 2009 9:30AM]

Is that the new Apple Newton?

[Alan Strangis Posted Dec 7th 2009 9:36AM]

Interesting, but I think I'd find one of the Acer 1820 convertible tablets more useful, and just a tad thinner and lighter...

[machloja Posted Dec 7th 2009 9:44AM]

To those complaining about the size of that thing...
Second generation supposed to accommodate Blue Ray player to watch HD movies on one screen and the coming new Nvidia video card to play latest games on the other (screen).

[jholleboom Posted Dec 7th 2009 9:49AM]

Haven't seen something that ugly since the Tata Nano.

[stroker Posted Dec 7th 2009 9:56AM]

That girl is pretty hot too.

[One Love Posted Dec 7th 2009 10:21AM]

Whats with the fake name "Amy" aka "Chichi Hsiao" from k00be. lulz.

[Entourage Posted Dec 7th 2009 11:16AM]

@One Love

Because most people know her from these pictures lol

http://i49.tinypic.com/14ujbqv.jpg

[arnavdesai Posted Dec 7th 2009 11:29AM]

@One Love

That is most likely her Christian name, most east asians have one- you ignorant klutz.

[BpNick Posted Dec 7th 2009 10:43PM]

@Entourage

not to sound like a perv...but whats her real name and where did you get those pics...?? just curious...

[protrex Posted Dec 7th 2009 11:14AM]

I have played with one of their earlier prototypes and the device has potential. I've heard that they are working hard to optimize the code for their new processor in order to improve the speed. I cannot wait to see what these guys have to show at CES.

[joelaf Posted Dec 7th 2009 11:29AM]

Every time I see one of these new devices, I think mid year 2010 is gonna be a great time to buy. Asus keeps promising a EEE reader. If they can have as much impact on readers/tablets as they had with netbooks, it's Game On.

[ECVOICE Posted Dec 7th 2009 4:47PM]

The note-taking is a bit slow, but the concept gets high-marks; being about to load in a file and take notes directly on it, then erase them as necessary - tres chic.

Personally, I don't need to take notes quickly, so this might be the expanded e-reader device to beat.

[tmarks11 Posted Dec 7th 2009 5:47PM]

Nice concept, but even their "production mockup" is two big.

I have a dell mini 9, and their production mockup looks bigger then that. I am definitely not carting my mini 9 around much, so I can't see hauling this monster around.

I want one the size of a (slim) paperback book, not the size of a textbook. Make it about half the size with dual 7" screens, and I think it would be a winner.

9.7" screen=not portable (unless you are a student who hauls around textbooks in his backpack).

[makeinstallclean Posted Dec 7th 2009 6:08PM]

If you compare the price for preorder with the price of other eReaders that have screen sizes similar to this and add the fact that you get all the features of a net-book running android included in that I don't see how you can lose with this thing.

Even if it is bulky or has a large bevel or lags a bit those are all minor things (besides the lag but that's easy to fix in a software upgrade down the road)

[xconan Posted Dec 7th 2009 9:10PM]

they need a faster efficient processor, tegra2???

[Benhur Posted Dec 8th 2009 4:57AM]

talk about archaenology