FLEPia is the world’s first color e-paper mobile terminal, made my Fujitsu. The term sounds complicated, but if you ever heard of Amazon Kindle before, FLEPia is ebook reader as well but one different. It got color. The 8-inch display screen can showing up to 260,000 colors in high-definition. Good enough to provide better reading experience.
For the time being it is only available in Japan market, but Japanese product tend to have higher possibility to be available in this region earlier, hopefully. Quick look on the spec it has.
8-inch display screen
Weighing just 385 grams (385g) and only 12.5mm thick
User-friendly operation: touch screen, digital stylus, scroll key, function buttons
Connectivity : Bluetooth, high-speed wireless LAN
40 hours of continuous usage
4GB SD card capable of storing 5,000 conventional paper-based books with each book is 300 pages long at 600KB per book
Run on Windows C.E 5.0
Although FLEPia is only released recently, it has been under research and development since 2007. This Youtube video which was posted at 2007, give closer looks on how FLEPia looks like as well as some of its functionality.
And another video showing the differences between the concept and actual product.
E-book reader it is relatively new product in our market. Amazon Kindle is popular on other region, but it is hardly can be seen on the local marketplace. The price of the device itself is much more expensive than what we’re willing to spent on books for 1 year period. And then we’re lack of local content provider that willing to invest on such things.
Although there is Kindle for iPhone app released month ago, it is not yet available here. For communities that does not develope high reading habit , the availability of such tools or devices is very much anticipated.
Last week, we have seen how Maxis and iPhone dominating the local telcos news with the official release of iPhone to the local market. Not to be outdone with its rival, Celcom beginning this weekend, started to air, TV commercial promoting unknown device due to be unveiled April. You can guess what it is based on the size.
Blackberry Storm is the first touch screen phone from RIM, compete directly with Apple iPhone on the smartphone segment. It manage to grab quite an attention when it was released last year, so it is interesting how it will compete here in the local market.
No detail about the device price as well as the data plan or call plan available on the Celcom’s Storm webpage. It is unknown if it will use existing plan or Celcom will introduce new plans just like Maxis approach with iPhone.
Interested user can prebook now, where there are free gift worth RM638 up for grab. Head to Celcom’s Blackberry Storm page for more information.
Xobni team has releasead Xobni 1.7, a new version of Xobni, a popular Microsoft Outlook plugin last week. At the same time, the beta label is coming off, to mark another milestone of Xobni.
That was a great news to Xobni user, as this signaled that Xobni has achieved more stability, in term of performance and functionality as well as free from minor bug.
I’ve been Xobni user since 2008, but has stopped using it due to buggy performance. Xobni is great plugin for Outlook, if it is not because of that performance issue, which happen when you have huge mailboz size. Personally, I admire its powerful search feature, which default search in Outlook, is lacking with.
The new version highlight the performance enhancement it has made to Xobni.
Outlook now starts 31% faster*
Additionally, you now have the choice to make Xobni start immediately with Outlook, or start only when you want to use Xobni
Xobni Profiles now load 42% faster*
We’ve cached profile data, so Xobni stays out of the way of Outlook when it is doing its thing
More performance controls
Users can control how often and how much data Xobni indexes
Users can control when Xobni is running
* Users with large inboxes will experience more dramatic improvements. We made these improvements for you!
I’m tempted to use it back, and I wish these claims are true. Download Xobni here.
One of the long list of new features introduced in Google Docs, Insert Drawing allow user to draw right from the Google Docs. To open the drawing ‘canvas’, choose Drawing within the Insert menu.
On this ‘canvas’, there are many shapes to choose from, variety of line type, fill line and colours to spice up you the drawing. You can as well, group, order, align and distribute an objects that you choose.
Once satisfied with the drawing, click small ‘x’ to close this windows, and the drawing will show up in the main Google Docs pages. The draws can be edited, resized and even duplicated.
