And the race is ON for colored E-Book Reader as Fujitsu announced its first e-book capable of displaying 260,000 colors in high definition. Japanese market get holds of this new release and ready for purchase through Fujitsu Frontech’s online store. The FLEPia is also equipped with 8-inch touch screen display, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, SD card slot with maximum supported capacity of 4GB , USB mini-B connection, embedded stereo speakers, and what not 40 hours of continuous battery operation on full charge.
Fujitsu Frontech and Fujitsu Laboratories co-developed proprietary color e-paper, and announced the launch of FLEPia in April 2007 as the world’s first color e-paper mobile terminal. Previously, commercial samples of FLEPia were available for purchase on a limited basis for corporate use only, as part of field trials of the first ever color e-paper mobile terminal.
More specification below.
Specifications
| Dimensions, Weight | 158mm (Width) × 240mm (Height) × 12.5mm (Depth. Thinnest section: 11.3mm) , Weight: 385g |
| Screen Size | 8-inch (123.6mm x 164.8mm) |
| Unit Colors | White or Black |
| Resolution | 768 dots x 1024 dots (XGA) |
| Number of Displayable Colors | 260,000 colors (3 Scans); 4,096 (2 Scans); 64 colors (1 Scan) |
| Re-Draw Speed | 1.8 seconds (1 Scan), 5 seconds (2 Scans), 8 seconds (3 Scans) |
| Wireless LAN (embedded) | IEEE802.11b/g（11/54Mbps *1） |
| Bluetooth | Bluetooth Ver2.0+EDR |
| Memory | SD Memory Card*2 (Maximum up to 4GB) |
| USB Connector | USB2.0 (480Mbps) mini-B connector × 1 |
| Audio | Stereo speakers (embedded), headphone connector x 1 |
| Power Supply | Lithium polymer battery (embedded), AC adaptor Fully-charged continuous operation： 40 continuous hours (Conditions: Display of 2,400 pages/at 1 minute per page/with 64 colors) |
| Content Storage Capacity (when used with a 4GB SD card) | Equivalent to 5,000 paper-based books when each book is 300 pages long with 600KB per book |
| Security | 128Bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) |
| Software | FLEPia application, Japanese version Microsoft Windows CE5.0, Japanese e-book viewers: BunkoViewer (XMDF), T-Time (.book) |
| CPU (embedded) | XScale RISC CPU |
| Environmental Operating Conditions | Operation: Temperature range: 5 to 35 degrees Celsius, Humidity: 20 to 80% RH Storage: Temperature range: – 10 to 50 degrees Celsius, Humidity: 20 to 80% RH |
The colored e-book reader FLEPia is available via Fujitsu Frontech’s online store “FrontechDirect” with a price tag of 99,750 JPY a little more than US$1K. Well wait for others to follow.
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