The budding market for electronic reading devices is about to get two powerful new entrants: Best Buy and Verizon.
On Wednesday, iRex Technologies, a spinoff of Royal Philips Electronics that already makes one of Europe’s best-known e-readers, plans to announce that it is entering the United States market with a $399 touch-screen e-reader.
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The magic cross-tech chip mentioned in the piece was first mentioned by Engadget in 2007. This would be a first mainline consumer item to deploy the tech as QUALCOMM’s deployments list shows mainly industrial sorts of product like the Panasonic Toughbook using it.
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$400? Where are the $25
$400? Where are the $25 e-readers?