Get ready for the newsstand in your hand
Asus, the Taiwanese manufacturer that pioneered the netbook concept, has given InGear exclusive details of its DR-570 reader, to be released by the end of the year. Asus says it has developed a 6in, high-brightness, OLED colour screen that should run for a whopping 122 hours on one battery charge — and that’s not just when displaying text but under real-world conditions, such as running Flash video over its built-in wi-fi or 3G. If that claim stands up, it would make this game-changing device nearly as energy-efficient as today’s monochrome readers.
OK, now this is exactly what I meant about Asus upping the ante.
If that is true — including the bit about running Flash — this would be very, very interesting.
Why?
The Vook web versions of their digital books are powered by Flash and cannot be seen on a Flash-less iSlate (something I hope they will be able to fix by ditching Flash and going all-JavaScript and HTML5).
There are many other magazine sites that are powered by Flash too.
Also, since this is color and will allegedly run Flash, it puts yet another nail into the coffin of the eCrap Axis of E: eInk, ePub, eBook — in favor of digital books.
And that Elle magazine? Currently the digital edition uses Zinio Reader. Which is also available as an iPhone app.
So, has Asus signed a deal with Zinio for content?
— via Twitter from mobileread
Previously here:
CES, The Death Of eInk, And The Asus Factor
Enough eInk/ePaper/eCrap eBook Devices!
Barnes & Noble’s Incompatible Non-Universal ePub
Multi eInk eBook Device Fondle Report
IDPF Screws Up ePub eBook Covers For Everyone!
How Book Publishing Will Lose: eBooks Vs. Smart Digital Books
ePub For Seniors
Apple Will Break Open The Digital Book Floodgates
eBook Trademarks: Asus, Warner Brothers, And ViewSonic
The eBook Bubble: Save Your Money!
Moriah Jovan’s Asus eReading Flirtation
Why Digital Books Will Win
Smart Digital Books Vs. The ePub FAIL Model
How The Axis Of E Is Killing Publishing
Asus Atomic Bomb eBook Reader?
The Axis Of E Book Holocaust
Why eInk, ePub, And eBooks Will Fail
Dumb eBooks Must Die, Smart eBooks Must Live
The eBook Test 
Kindle’s doing high-text web sites now – this makes me wonder if Asus will be also. Also – what’s the navigational/input tool for it?
OLED makes it plausibly a touchscreen. Few buttons on the face of it.
122 hours on a single charge.
.122 hours if you are viewing any media that uses Flash!
John
I’m very skeptical of that claim myself. OLEDs eat batteries — and when you add Flash too, there go the electrons even faster.