SAN DIEGO and TAIPEI, Taiwan – Janu– Qualcomm MEMS Technologies Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), and Koobe, Inc., a leading provider of e-reader solutions to the Taiwan market, today announced the next-generation Jin Yong Reader featuring mirasol® display technology at the Taipei International Book Fair, site of the original black and white Jin Yong Reader’s first unveiling two years ago. There is no information on release dates or the price, but I see it being competitive with the other Mirasol devices on the market, at $300 US. One of the drawbacks is all of these devices never see the light of day in North America and instead are Asian exclusives. Surprisingly, the displays are very sound and emulate the virtues of Pixel Qi in the respect that they perform very well outdoors. All of these use the new Mirasol technology that took over 2 years of constant development. and the Kyobo eReader from South Korea’s Kyobo Book Centre.
The Jin Yong Reader joins the C18 from China’s Hanvon, the Bambook Sunflower from China’s Shanda Networking Co. It is also bundled with 15 ebooks by the popular Chinese writer Jin Yong.
The main differences is the User Interface it uses, which is a heavily customized version of Android 2.3. It uses a Qualcomm’s 1.0 GHz Snapdragon S2 class processor and features a 5.7” XGA format with a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels.
We only just reviewed the Kyobo Mirasol e-reader, a South Korean exclusive, last week and it looks like Mirasol has another device up their sleeves, the Koobe Jin Yong Reader.įirst of all, this latest e-reader is the spitting image of the Kyobo one recently released in terms of hardware.