Fujitsu has managed to come up with the world’s first colour ebook, FLEPia. It has a 8-inch screen and 260,000 colours. Fujitsu aims to sell 50,000 of them in two years. More information after the break.
The eBook has a SD slot that is able to support up to 4GB (in my opinion, it is too limited) and it has a battery life of 40 hours. The ebook is touch screen, runs on Windows CE 5.0. It has bluetooth and WiFi for connectivity.
Weight is 385 grams, 12.5mm thick and the cost is a whopping 99,750 yen (equivalent to SG$1,500)!!
Read the Press Release Here
Specifications
| Dimensions, Weight | 158mm (Width) × 240mm (Height) × 12.5mm (Depth. Thinnest section: 11.3mm) , Weight: 385g |
| Screen Size | 8-inch (123.6mm x 164.8mm) |
| Unit Colors | White or Black |
| Resolution | 768 dots x 1024 dots (XGA) |
| Number of Displayable Colors | 260,000 colors (3 Scans); 4,096 (2 Scans); 64 colors (1 Scan) |
| Re-Draw Speed | 1.8 seconds (1 Scan), 5 seconds (2 Scans), 8 seconds (3 Scans) |
| Wireless LAN (embedded) | IEEE802.11b/g?11/54Mbps *1? |
| Bluetooth | Bluetooth Ver2.0+EDR |
| Memory | SD Memory Card*2 (Maximum up to 4GB) |
| USB Connector | USB2.0 (480Mbps) mini-B connector × 1 |
| Audio | Stereo speakers (embedded), headphone connector x 1 |
| Power Supply | Lithium polymer battery (embedded), AC adaptor Fully-charged continuous operation? 40 continuous hours (Conditions: Display of 2,400 pages/at 1 minute per page/with 64 colors) |
| Content Storage Capacity (when used with a 4GB SD card) | Equivalent to 5,000 paper-based books when each book is 300 pages long with 600KB per book |
| Security | 128Bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) |
| Software | FLEPia application, Japanese version Microsoft Windows CE5.0, Japanese e-book viewers: BunkoViewer (XMDF), T-Time (.book) |
| CPU (embedded) | XScale RISC CPU |
| Environmental Operating Conditions | Operation: Temperature range: 5 to 35 degrees Celsius, Humidity: 20 to 80% RH Storage: Temperature range: – 10 to 50 degrees Celsius, Humidity: 20 to 80% RH |
| *1 | Figure indicates theoretical maximum transmission rate for standard wireless LAN; does not indicate actual data transmission speed. |
| *2 | SD memory card is sold separately |