Sunday, January 29, 2012

Toshiba BookPlace DB50 Comes Colored And Android-Powered

Apart from Android phones, the Japanese marketplace loves putting its hands on shade e-book readers. Toshiba announces its newest, Android-based reader. The BookPlace DB50 is a 7-inch device that provides access to Toshiba's BookPlace store, that offers over 43,000 Japanese e-book titles and magazines. The firm skeleton on expanding the library to 100,000 titles by Mar this year.

The device runs on mutated versions of Linux and Android 2.3.4. It moreover features a TFT LCD screen with 600 x 1024 fortitude and LED backlight, 1GHz Freescale i.MX535 CPU, 8GB memory, 1GB RAM, WiFi,Bluetooth, microUSB 2.0, microSD card slot, a mono orator for MP3 playback, about 7.5 hours of battery life, and 5 earthy buttons.

The Toshiba BookPlace DB50 will be existing to the Japanese marketplace on February 10 with a referred to cost of US$284, inclusive a $64 banking for use in the BookPlace library.

Source: TechCrunch

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