Monday, July 26, 2010

About Portable Electronics: eBooks Overtake Hardcover; HP's PalmPad Eyes iPad

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From Jason Hidalgo, your Guide to Portable Electronics
Who's getting out of who's yard now? Electronic books reached a milestone recently with Amazon reporting eBook sales trumping hardcover sales. Barnes & Noble, meanwhile, released a new Nook App for Android devices. We also review the Nook's closest dual-screen rival, Spring Design's Alex eReader. In tablet news, Apple's iPad gets another potential rival as Hewlett-Packard trademarks the PalmPad name. But will it be magical and revolutionary enough? Acer also announces its own plans for entering the ever-growing tablet pool.

Kindle Sales Jump Since Price Cut; eBooks Overtake Hardcover
Sales of electronic books are apparently both real and spectacular based on sales activity over at Amazon. Read more

Barnes & Noble Launches Nook eReading App for Android
Nook does. Barnes & Noble just introduced a new eReading app, this time to satiate the reading appetites of consumers who use Google's popular Android operating system. Read more

A Unique Tweener: Spring Design's Alex eReader
The Spring Design Alex eReader walks a delicate tight rope between eReader and tablet. We put the device through its paces in our latest eBook reader review. Read more

More iPad Rivals Enter the Fray
Ooh, what do we have here? It looks like HP's WebOS-powered tablet is starting to take form as Hewlett-Packard just filed a trademark for the PalmPad name. HP may want to look behind its back, though, as computer rival Acer announces its own tablet plans as well.

 


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