Tag: elonex
IFA 2010: Video round-up – LG OLED, Samsung Galaxy Tab and more!
Tech Digest got our Scorsese on out in Berlin at this week's IFA conference, shooting a whole load of video previews. For your convenience, here's the whole lot compiled into a single post. Just click through each video's headline…
IFA 2010: Elonex 500EB colour eReader previewed – VIDEO
While eReader's sit in a somewhat precarious position now that the tablet onslaught is in full swing, that hasn't stopped Elonex from marching ahead with their latest colour eBook reader, the 500EB. Darren Smith from Elonex talks us through…
IFA 2010: Elonex eTouch Android tablet gets nifty case/keyboard combo add-on – VIDEO
Here's another Android tablet on display at IFA 2010, this time by UK based Elonex. The 10 inch Elonex eTouch 1000 ET tablet is running version 2.1 of Google's operating system and is notably more powerful than the ViewSonic Viewpad…
Elonex introduces the eBook in partnership with Borders
Elonex has teamed up with bookshop giant Borders to launch the eBook. Or the eBook 600EB to give it its full title.
The partnership with Borders means that the eBook comes pre-loaded with 100 “all-time classics”. Presumably Napper Goes For Goal is one of the classics included – it is the greatest story ever told. The Borders’ e-book store has an additional 45,000 titles available to download.
The eBook is only 9mm thick and weighs just 180g. It has a 6-inch e-ink screen which can display eight different font sizes. It also has an SD card slot which can support up to 4GB. Elonex sells an accessory pack for the eBook for £29 which has a 4GB card as well as a leather case. Alternatively just buy a 4GB SD card from Play.com for £6.49.
Elonex states that, with a 4GB SD card in place, the eBook can hold 8,000 books. “With 8,000 books weighing the same as an elephant,” they say. “How else are you going to fit 8,000 books in your suitcase?” Quite why you’d need 8,000 books on you is open to debate though. Surely only Holly from Red Dwarf and, perhaps, Will Self have read 8,000 books.
Sorry if this post came off a little unenthusiastic, it’s just that with every e-book release, the giant Kindle sized hole in the UK becomes even more apparent.
The Elonex eBook will cost you £189.95 and will be available here very soon.
(via T3)
UPDATED: Carphone Warehouse discontinues Linux netbook after unpopularity
The Carphone Warehouse, in a display of extreme lameness, has withdrawn the Elonex Webbook from sale, because it reckons that its customers can’t cope with Ubuntu Linux. Perhaps it’s a reflection on the kind of people who buy computers from Carphone Warehouse, but return rates were up to about 20 percent.
Carphone Warehouse has been promoting the netbook on X-Factor, and they’re going to keep selling a version with Windows XP on. They also offer an Eee 701 deal. The netbook, which comes bundled with Ubuntu (presumably Hardy Heron), has sold approximately 60,000 since launch on a ‘contract’ deal where customers pay £19 a month and get 3G internet access.
Carphone Warehouse (via ITProPortal)
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Elonex 10.2" webbook PC at the Carphone Warehouse
I think I’m going to explode with all the new sub-notebooks, netbooks, UMPCs or however these companies wish to market their variety internet devices. Today is the turn of Elonex who have brought out something sort of in between a sub-notebook and laptop with their 10.2″ webbook…
Elonex undercuts the Eee PC with the £99 laptop
The fever pitch excitement over the Eee PC has died down a little of late, so let’s all get excited about another budget laptop – the Elonex One.
