Top 5 e-readers in the market

By Kukil Bora, SiliconIndia   |   Monday, 25 October 2010, 14:33 IST   |    3 Comments
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Top 5 e-readers in the market
Bangalore: Thanks to their relatively light weight, and their ability to easily read books in daylight, Electronic readers or e-readers continue to gain attention. It is predicted, that by the end of this year, newer models of e-readers with newer display technologies will start to flow in. Here are five of the top e-readers that can be a smart buy. 1) Amazon Kindle 3 Amazon's recent release of the third edition of the Kindle or the Kindle 3 is the first smaller-sized Kindle in two colors: graphite (the same as the Kindle DX launched earlier) and standard Kindle white. Compared to the earlier editions, Kindle 3 is more compact. With slimmer sides, it has a 6-inch display and a four row QWERTY keyboard. The new model measures a stout 7.5 by 4.8 by 0.34 inches and its display has been improved with 50 percent better contrast and darker fonts. The new Kindle 3 doubles the storage space from 2GB to 4GB, which Amazon says translates into 3500 books up from 1500. The device is equipped with Wi-Fi. Another key feature of the device is that users get free lifetime internet access through Amazon's Whispernet. Kindle 3 is now available for approximately 12,500 for the Wi-Fi and 3G version. 2) Sony Reader Touch Edition (PRS-650) A device with a stylish look, Sony PRS-650 comes with 6-inch crystal clear touchscreen and 12 built-in directories. The reader can turn the pages with a swipe of the finger. Thanks to its anti-glare paper-like display, one can read for a long time without having any eye strain. It comes with 2GB of inbuilt storage; enough to store around 1200 eBooks. Two memory card slots (SD card and Memory Stick) are also provided, which boosts the potential storage space to an impressive 34GB. It does not come with Wi-Fi or 3G capabilities. Hence, the user is forced to connect the device to a computer whenever you want to download books or other media. Sony Reader Touch Edition (PRS-650) is priced at around 10,112. 3) Barnes and Noble Nook The elegant-looking Nook is one of the two e-readers providing direct-from-device wireless access to each bookseller's e-book store, Amazon Kindle 2 being the other one. It has an innovative touchscreen strip below the 6.5-inch E-Ink electronic paper display, a feature that dominates the device. The touchscreen has an on-screen keyboard for data input and colourful cover thumbnails that can be scrolled through. You can stockpile 1,500 eBooks, eNewspapers and eMagazines on Nook's 2 GB internal memory. The memory can be expanded with micro SD card. The Nook with Wi-Fi priced around 6,580 while Wi-Fi+3G would cost 8,788. 4) Wink XTS Wink XTS from EC Media, a Bangalore-based digital publisher, supports 15 languages and offers over 200,000 book titles. It is a first of its kind in Indian market and so considered as India's first e book reader. It has a 16-level gray scale display and uses e-ink technology to display content to readers. It offers consumers a one-stop e-store to access e-reading content of choice via www.thewinkstore.com. It supports file formats like txt, pdf, rtf, doc, html, wolf, chm, fb2, djvu for content reading, and play multimedia files of the format mp3 and aac. Wink is available with internal memory of 2 GB that could be expandable up to 16 GB. The hot gadget is priced at 11,490 with Wi-Fi connectivity, GPRS and USB 2.0. 5) Infibeam Pi Infibeam Pi is 7.5-inch long, 4.5-inch wide, and 0.4-inch thick and has a 6-inch E-Ink matte screen black and white display. The device, which is claimed to be lighter than a magazine, upports ebooks in a variety of file formats: .TXT, .DOC, .PDF, .HTML and .EPUB. It has an internal memory of 512MB, which is enough to store a few ebooks. The Infibeam Pi comes with an SD Card slot, and you can plug in a memory card of up to 4GB--good enough for a few thousand ebooks. Infibeam Pi's E-Ink display has Indian language support. You can also look up images in a variety of file formats and tune into some music. The 8-level gray scale with no backlit display provides a crisp reading experience. The device costs 9,999.

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