Original URL: https://www.theregister.com/2010/11/08/john_lewis_sovos_colour_e_book_reader/
John Lewis pitches 80-quid colour e-book reader
No mention of the T-word
Posted in Personal Tech, 8th November 2010 14:30 GMT
If Samsung's 7in Galaxy Tab is too big for you - let alone Apple's 9.7in iPad - then how about this 5in "colour e-book reader" that the middle classes' favourite retailer, John Lewis, will be offering this Christmas?
Out under the name of UK electronics supplier Sovos, the SVEBK5-B has a 480 x 800 LCD and measures a neat 149 x 104 x 11mm.
It'll handle Divx, MPEG 2 and MP4 video files; JPEG and BMP pictures; MP3, WMA, AAC and Flac audio; and text, PDF, FB2, PDB and ePub e-books.
The gadget has 1GB of storage on board, but you can add more by slotting in an SD card.
The battery life stretches to seven hours' e-book reading, five hours of video playback or 30 hours of music listening, John Lewis said.
And it's only 80 quid. ®