Hi again, my faithful Tekkie freak readers.  We now have a great new look for 2010.  While I absolutely loved my old Theme, it was a little bit busy and tough to read.  So I went with a new and simpler theme and I’m absolutely loving it.

My goals for 2010 are many, but I’m hoping to get our forums up and running.  I hope to provide everyone with tons of great information on latest gadgets.  I’ve been focusing mostly on electronic reading devices such as the Barnes and Noble Nook and Amazon’s Kindle.

Please head over to our Tekkie Freak forums where I hope to get some great discussions going.  Thanks for all your ongoing support in 2009, and here’s to a fabulous 2010.  I wish everyone a Happy and Healthy 2010.

Jill

Are you going home to Mommy this Thanksgiving or Christmas?  Well, if you are and you’re bringing your Kindle…people are going to want to look at it and play with it and touch it.   Trust me, I know.  Are all those bodice rippers just sitting there on your home screen for everyone to see?  Check out this video,  Molly Wood shows you how to hide those titles that you’d prefer your future in-laws didn’t see. Enjoy:

or it would if I lived in Japan and had $1000 to spend.  Fujitsu is spot-on.  The FLEPIA is the e-book lovers wet dream.

The good:

• It has a full color e-ink screen. XGA. That’s  260,000 colors people.
• Wi-Fi
• Bluetooth
• SD Card slot
• 40-hour battery life (not quite the 2-weeks you get with a Kindle), but 40 hours works for me.

The Bad:

• You have to live in or travel to Japan to get one.
• It runs windows CE 5.0….all I have to say to that is WTF?
• $1000 is a little out of my price range and probably also your average American consumer.
• 1.8 second refresh  rate. Ouch.  A tad on the slow side, but did I mention this is full-color?

The Ugly:

• Sorry folks, nothing ugly about this product, except for the fact that we here in the USA are (as usual) in the technological dark ages and can’t get great products like this if we had the cash.

Ah yes, it is only October, but this Christmas it is going to be  the season of ebook readers present.  As someone who used to read ebooks and news on her palm pilot 15, possibly even close to 20 years ago.  I am absolutely tickled Pink that the ebook reader market is taking off.  Last spring when I ordered my Kindle, it wasn’t the only ebook reader on the market, but after my usual researching it seemed the best of the bunch.  Now, I’m watching the Barnes and Noble Nook.  Mine is already on pre-order.  It’s being released on November 30.  It runs the Android operating system, displays PDF’s, and has both 3g and wi-fi (again the 3g is AT&T)…for a network that constantly whines about not being able to handle all the iPhone traffic I’m not sure why they would pony up use of their network for this…but well I guess they’re better than nothing.

Some great things about the Nook.

• Pricing is the same as Amazon Kindle 2 at $259.  Again I’d like to see the majority of ebook readers selling for $199 as I think this is the price point where MOST consumers will take the plunge.
• Free wi-fi in all Barnes and Noble stores.
• When you are in the store, you can read any electronic book free.  Just like when you are in the store you can page through any of the real books on the shelves without buying.
• It has an SD card slot.
• Replaceable battery (This has always annoyed me about the Kindle 2).
• It runs the Android operating system (though kindle also runs on linux).
• You can lend your books to other people.  This was a HUGE rant for many people with the kindle.
• Access to Googles extensive library of free books.

Anyway, you can check out the device and pre-order here.  It’s supposed to ship by November 30.

Plastic Logic recently announced it’s QUE Ereader. Details so far are pretty sketchy, but you can get you very own in January of 2010 at the product launch during CES. This reader is being billed as the first ereader for the professional. It has a touchscreen, does PDF, word, powerpoint and excel documents.

The device sports and 8.5″ x 11″ screen and 3g wireless provided by AT&T (ewe). Not that I’m opinionated or anything. It
will also be driven by the Barnes and Noble online store. I couldn’t find any information on pricing. I’m guessing it will be more than your average consumer will care to spend.