Bookeen Orizon to ship this May with multitouch Sipix display

We're still patiently waiting for Sipix's color e-paper to hit the commercial realm, but 'til then, we suppose we'll pretend to be content with the monochrome variety. Bookeen, which obviously has a hard row to hoe in the slam-packed e-reader market, recently announced what appeared to be a relatively ho hum reader in the Orizon. Today, however, we've learned that it'll ship with a multitouch 6-inch Sipix display (800 x 600 resolution), and it'll be available for purchase this May in the United States and UK. For those who've forgotten, it will arrive with WiFi, 2GB of internal memory, Bluetooth, an accelerometer and support for PDF / ePUB formats. Still, if the rumored $250 price point sticks, we sort of doubt those to-be Kindle customers will turn their back on an always-on connection, but hey -- if the hackers step it up, this whole multitouch thing could really be enticing.

[Mightydh Posted Feb 16th 2010 8:56PM]

Get it to $100 and I'm in.

I don't care about always connected. I can plug it in to sync. But for $100? I'd buy one for everyone in my family.

[complicity Posted Feb 17th 2010 7:44AM]

Get to £100 and I'm in. I dont want all these extra damned features, screw wifi, 3g, android, touchscreen... Get me a a good quality screen e-reader (not lcd), with open format support and sd card expansion and I'm yours for a 100 quid.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 17th 2010 11:36AM]

@complicity
Give it another year or so. Some of the Sonys are under £150 already. And if the colour and other display stuff actually comes out this year, expect the price of the mono readers to drop through the floor.

[SaggyBalls Posted Feb 16th 2010 9:16PM]

Meh, I shouldn't look at a picture of a product and think to myself, "man, that's pretty good mediocrity right there." So many companies have absolutely no innovation or passion in their products.

[Prestidigitator Posted Feb 16th 2010 9:22PM]

...which I could accept if they were cheaper. i'd pay $150

[SecretlyFat Posted Feb 16th 2010 9:33PM]

Bookeen Orizon Sipix??? Is this for reading Klingon ebooks?

[jol Posted Feb 16th 2010 9:43PM]

@SecretlyFat
Ha

[goopy Posted Feb 16th 2010 10:20PM]

Damn, why does it taking too long to drop price. come on just drop it to ~150 range and I'll buy it in a blink.

[stridermt2k Posted Feb 16th 2010 10:21PM]

Broken Verizon spit on what now?

[DJDD Posted Feb 16th 2010 11:36PM]

Wow. I REALLY like the look of this thing. I think I'll give the color e-ink a miss for awhile. It'll no doubt be quite expensive being new tech. Why wouldn't you buy this monochrome eRook though? Looks like the best of the bunch to me.

[Dripup Posted Feb 17th 2010 4:47AM]

I really dont understand all of you. You know nothing about this product and or 250$ you get more than a kindl or a sony prs900.. Do you really see the product at the ces? Me yes. I's incredibly thin and light, the capacitive touch screen is light year away from Sony resistive one! And booken I not a non well known company. They sells ereader for at least as long as amazon and Sony, if not longer!

[srxdba Posted Feb 18th 2010 12:13PM]

Someone please help me understand the appeal of native PDF support on a 6" screen. Since PDF doesn't 'flow', you won't be able to increase the font size...you'll have to use a magnifying glass to read it...

[Mcjaples Posted Feb 22nd 2010 1:00PM]

As I posted on the other blog about this, these booken guys are starting to sprout up everywhere in the US, so I'm thinking they are a major player as an option to the kindle sony hype. I see their opus device in my local NY stores (stocked well) so they are definately getting attention, however i'm not sure anyone knows the real deal with this new orizon device. I asked my local NY store about when it will be available, they knew nothing so I wouldnt take the details listed in the above review to heart. I like the ideas of different color devices as mentioned above on opus, my nieces b'day gifts will be taken care of easily!