ASUS preparing to "blow up" the market of electronic books
ASUS has in March this year at CeBIT showed a concept device for reading electronic books. Because after this demonstration is not followed by any statements about specific plans to market it on a model no one remembered. As it turned out wrong. The company continued to develop and at the end of the year will be ready to bring it to market. At least, such a statement was made by Jerry Shen (Jerry Shen), president of ASUS.
His words were confirmed by the representative of the company in the UK, gave an interview to an online newspaper Times Online. Taiwanese manufacturer is planning later this year to market electronic books directly to the two devices, one of which will be budgetary decisions, and the second refers to the premium class. Paving the way for new market ASUS is preparing a device, significantly different from all existing models. While precise figures are not yet known to Times reporters learned that the device will have two screens and run in clamshell form factor that gives the illusion of reading a real book. Besides the presence of the second screen will simultaneously with the reading of the book to browse the web or to serve as a virtual QWERTY-keyboard. ASUS also promised to equip the device is not monochrome, and color screen and equip his camera and microphone to communicate via Skype.
At the same time, a company representative assured journalists that this model will not be too expensive. ASUS aim to create devices that are both affordable and functional. Although the cost of premium-class model is not called, was announced price positioning of the budget. Easy e-book from ASUS will cost around ₤ 100 (about 170 dollars).
His words were confirmed by the representative of the company in the UK, gave an interview to an online newspaper Times Online. Taiwanese manufacturer is planning later this year to market electronic books directly to the two devices, one of which will be budgetary decisions, and the second refers to the premium class. Paving the way for new market ASUS is preparing a device, significantly different from all existing models. While precise figures are not yet known to Times reporters learned that the device will have two screens and run in clamshell form factor that gives the illusion of reading a real book. Besides the presence of the second screen will simultaneously with the reading of the book to browse the web or to serve as a virtual QWERTY-keyboard. ASUS also promised to equip the device is not monochrome, and color screen and equip his camera and microphone to communicate via Skype.
At the same time, a company representative assured journalists that this model will not be too expensive. ASUS aim to create devices that are both affordable and functional. Although the cost of premium-class model is not called, was announced price positioning of the budget. Easy e-book from ASUS will cost around ₤ 100 (about 170 dollars).
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