Chulmin Lee (COO
of iriver Ltd. and President
of iriver Inc.), said, «iriver is excited to unveil the iriver Story HD at CES as a world's first.
Images
of iriver's new ebook reader, the Story, have emerged, together with partial specifications for the 6 - inch E Ink device.
There are a lot of options out of China and Korea with the likes
of iriver and Hanvon.
Though just a photo of an early version
of the iriver software / user interface (left), it already looks more typographically interesting and magazine - like than the Kindle's straight - forward, list - style UI (right).
A few years ago, a failed startup, Papataka, tried to create an e-book market in Indonesia, while also selling a version
of iriver e-book reader.
Not exact matches
can I add external source
of books to the
iriver??
However, with cheaper options available from Amazon while Sony too having launched their refurbished line up
of e-reader that now include touchscreen across the entire range, it remains to be seen if
iriver can make a serious sales pitch for itself.
And here's the
iriver section
of this blog.
What makes the
iriver device a g - reader is the fact it connects to the Google ebookstore out -
of - box, where many e-books are available in the cloud and are accessible in - browser / in - app (except copyright - protected works).
The
iriver e-reader is powered by the Freescale Cortex A8 CPU with 2 GB
of onboard storage.
Hopefully
iriver will continue to develop the firmware to add to the functionality
of the device.
When first starting up the
iriver Story HD, a setup Wizard guides you through the process
of learning how to use the device and how to sync with a Google account for using the onboard Google ebookstore.
The
iriver Story HD comes with the latest cutting edge screen technology, but it has the feature - set
of an ebook reader from yesteryear.