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.
