Sentences with phrase «e-reader hybrid device»

Japanese consumers will soon have one more tablet / e-reader hybrid device to choose from.

Not exact matches

And competition in the fast - growing tablet market has also prompted a number of hybrid devices from e-reader makers, expanding the choice for consumers even more.

As has long been rumored, Barnes & Noble finally dropped a system update to their popular NOOK Color e-reader this week, bringing its hybrid device even closer to being a full grown tablet.

The 5.5 and 10.8 - inch devices are marketed as tablet / e-reader hybrids, with Sharp having inked deals with Japanese publishers to offer books and newspapers to buyers in its home market.

The company has been issuing hybrid tablets and e-readers since early last year with the Pandigital Novel as its first device.

But this device, which seems to be a hybrid of the netbook and E-Reader can do more.

Slotted as hybrid devices somewhere between full tablet computers like the iPad 2 and pure e-Ink based e-readers like the Amazon Kindle and B&N Nook Simple Touch, both Amazon and Barnes & Noble have unveiled «e-reading friendly» tablets just in time for the 2011 holiday season.

A hybrid display is an interesting idea, however, and would reduce the number of devices gadget hounds would have to carry around on long trips where a tablet and an e-reader would come in handy.

Asus promised a hybrid computer / e-reader by the end of the year that was most reasonable priced of the the device at around $ 150.