Samsung ENS-60K
Already available in Korea, the NIS-60K E60 or e-Reader arrive in France before the end of June, first exclusively at Carrefour price of 329 €. This eBook will hunt on the land Sony Reader , Kindle amazon , Cybook Gen3 … First observation, after a quick grip during a presentation organized by the manufacturer, its 6-inch monochrome screen with a definition of 600 x 800 pixels provides great comfort reading, including outdoors.
Touch technology EMR and E-ink
This crisp, and the absence of reflections are due to the use of E-ink technology that provides eight shades of gray. However, the choice of a slab electromagnetic resonance (EMR) that can be manipulated with a special stylus, not with your fingers, like that proposed by the Sony Reader Touch Edition, can be surprising. According to Sebastian Fernet, product manager: “We chose not to add layer on top of the screen, which would certainly have made this handling with bare hands, but would have degraded the comfort of reading by making the screen brighter.
To use a hand ergonomics that you get from the other, Samsung has incorporated a sliding type “Slider” his unit. Thus, four buttons and a directional pad becomes accessible to more easily navigate through menus. The operating system based on Linux can use 2GB of memory (about 1200 titles) and a port for connecting Micro SD memory cards ad hoc. The NIS-60K is also known to take notes, use calendar, dictionary or mp3 player (it has two speakers of 0.5W each).
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and text to speech
Besides the 150 classic literature integrated into the internal memory of the e-Reader E60, a strength of this model is to integrate a module Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g, front, again according to Frenet Sebastian, the release a 3G version. This allows us to get content directly online without using a computer.
One other nice feature is the “Text to speech” which transforms the written word into speech. Word that will listen with a stereo Bluetooth headset as the E60 is also compatible with this type of audio device.
