Kyobo eReader launches in South Korea with mirasol and Android 2.3 Gingerbread

Kyobo Book Centre has unveiled the world’s first eReader based on the new mirasol display technology by Qualcomm. This color e-paper display technology will allow for an enhanced reading experience as well as offer bright colors for pictures and video and exceptional battery life. The Kyobo eReader with mirasol is on sale starting today in South Korea and will initially be targeted at education customers.

We’ve mentioned the mirasol display before, Qualcomm’s new technology that aims to change the display markets while offering a technology that promises exceptional color, video-capable e-paper eReaders with amazing battery life. For more information head to mirasoldisplays.com or watch their innovation video here. Essentially using mirrors to reflect light back and control the color at the same time it offers an extremely efficient technology that will work great indoors, and look even better in direct sunlight. Basically a front lit technology rather than conventional backlight displays that are power hungry and become washed out with brightness from the sun or other sources while being used.
The Kyobo eReader will be using the newest mirasol 5.7″ panel with a 1024 x 768 resolution, a 1.0 Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and running atop Android 2.3 Gingerbread with what we are hearing will be a locked down and custom UI — although I’m sure the Android hacking world will get on that right away.
Kyobo, Korea’s largest bookseller — will offer 90,000 ebooks for the mirasol eReader, as well as video education content and many other educational options, integration with social networking services and English text-to-speech support. With magazines for the down-time between study classes and possibly 3 weeks of battery life this will be one interesting eReader. The Kyobo eReader is available today starting at $310 USD in South Korea but we have no details on when or if it will see any other markets. Most likely we’ll be seeing more from Qualcomm and their mirasol technology at CES 2012.
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HTC HD2 gets an Android 4.0 AOSP port, other stare in disbelief

You may have already forgotten all about the HTC HD2, but the hacking community clearly hasn’t. The Windows Mobile (that’s BC in Microsoft speak) smartphone got its lifetime extended way beyond what its manufacturer expected thanks to the efforts of some indie developers, who keep porting the latest versions of Android to it.

Now, the HTC HD2 is even ready to run the latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, long before most Android smartphones can do so. An HD2 ROM based on the AOSP release of Ice Cream Sandwich is available for download and you can try it right now.
The ROM is still pretty early in its development and there are plenty of glitches, but those should be dealt with soon enough. For now there are three pretty major items on the not working list (USB Mass Storage, Camera and HW acceleration) and the audio is only partially working, so the ROM doesn’t seem ready for everyday use.

Still, if you are interested you might take it for a spin by following the source link below. Those not courageous enough to do so will have to settle for seeing it in action in the following video.

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Android First Sony Ericsson

TOKYO - Japan will become the first country lucky enough to enjoy the first Sony Ericsson phone to adopt Android operating system. Society there will be coming Xperia X10 that reportedly will be sold in April next.

It has long been Sony Ericsson's plan to dump-based mobile phone operating system Google's. Before the name pinned Xperia X10, a phone that changing the news as the winds that blow. By the manufacturer, the X10 is a mobile social networking functions and entertainment such as music and video complete.

"All of our mobile phone Xperia series is the result of a successful development globally, including a team from Tokyo. Thus, the operator NTT DoCoMo became the first seller is Xpreria X10," said President of Sony Ericsson Bert Nordberg, told PC World, Friday (22 / 1 / 2010).

X10 itself has the usual offal buried in ceras phone in general, such as the 1GHz chip from the Qualcomm's Snapdragon. Includes 4-inch touch screen, 8 megapixel camera. The phone also brought with internal memory of 1GB that can accommodate a lot of content.

"Sony Ericsson is committed to the Japanese market and will continue to provide the best service in providing communications and entertainment devices,"

Acer 6 Smartphone Released In 2010

Acer plans to launch 6 a new smartphone with operating system Google's Android in mid-2010. Seller company's second-largest computer world has started plans to launch a smartphone named Android. Equipment is sold through the operator CSL in Hong Kong on Wednesday and sold earlier today in Taiwan.

"We are still evaluating the next step. Acer will release five or six Android-based smartphone in mid-2010, "said vice president of Acer, Roger Yuen at PCWorld, Thursday (10/12). Some tech Android smartphone will be divided into three price levels, ie for top-end class, mid-end, and low-end. This is done so that the smartphone can be reached by all parties, ranging from teens to businessmen.

Yuen said that Android-based smartphone's Acer will be available in Europe in the early quarter of 2010. He added that although present in the whole world, the smartphone can only be used by operators in Asia.

IMO S900, Mobile Local OS Android

The more rapid the current communication technology makes PT Content Indomedia poured trying to keep sophisticated phones. The latest is IMO S900 phone equipped with the operating system besutan Google's Open Source, Android.

IMO S900 practically as local phone daring to play in the market that has not seen clearly. The reason is the presence of Android itself can not be predicted in Indonesia.

"We chose Android consideration because by 2012, Android market trends quite well. At this year's estimated global Android will move into second position, with a mastery of approximately 30 percent market share, still below the 39 percent of Symbian. Now, in the global marketplace , Android is still ranked 7th with 2.7 percent market domination, "said President Director of PT Pratama Sarwo Content Indomedia Wargono, during the launch which took place today, Wednesday (18/11/2009) at Cilandak Town Square, South Jakarta.

At first glance, this phone like the Blackberry Storm and brought together a sensitive TFT screen touch, without any numeric keypad. Android performance IMO carried S900 also assisted with Samsung S3C2448 processor.

Meanwhile, ROM and RAM capacity on IMO S900, each measuring 128 MB, which is capable of supporting advanced features in it such as Google's online applications, Twitter and a variety of instant messaging, from Yahoo, MSN, Google Talk, and ICQ. IMO S900-aplikas also supports mobile applications for business people, good facilities pushmail, seer document (document viewer), or PDF.

All Android sophisticated technology and features that pinned in the S900 dibandrol IMO worth Rp2, 4 million.

In addition, the content on the IMO S900 can also be enriched through the help of IM2. Through the application IM2 owned by iPay, IMO S900 users can buy the app and content in the paid Android application store.

Specifications
Network : Dual Band GSM
Dimensions : 5.9 x10, 8x1, 46
Weight : 116 grams
Screen : 2.9 inch, TFT touchscreen
Video : 15 fps
Data : GPRS Class 10
Ext Memory : microSD (TransFlash)
Connection : wifi, bluetooth, USB
Multimedia : MP3 player, 2MP camera, pushmail,
Battery : Li-Ion 1200 mAh (srn)