{"id":19,"date":"2009-03-27T11:25:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T15:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2009-03-27T11:25:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T15:25:55","slug":"fujitsu-enters-the-e-reader-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/technology\/fujitsu-enters-the-e-reader-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Fujitsu enters the e-reader market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before you get too excited, it won&#8217;t be released until next month, it&#8217;s only available in Japan, and it has a $1,000 price tag.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/computing\/22332\/?nlid=1895&#038;a=f\">The FLEPia<\/a> will however have a color screen with touch capabilities.  Old School Palm OS stylus touch control though.<\/p>\n<p>The display uses a variant of LCD tech that doesn&#8217;t use a backlight.  The backlight is the power hog that has kept it from being used in a ebook reader yet.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn\u2019t call this a threat to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00154JDAI\/eclipsswebwarren\">Amazon Kindle<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000VI72YI\/eclipsswebwarren\">Sony EBook reader<\/a>, but it shows the market is opening up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/urbintechnology.com\/2009\/03\/27\/fujitsu-enters-the-e-reader-market\/\">First posted at Urbin Technology<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before you get too excited, it won&#8217;t be released until next month, it&#8217;s only available in Japan, and it has a $1,000 price tag. The FLEPia will however have a color screen with touch capabilities. Old School Palm OS stylus touch control though. The display uses a variant of LCD tech that doesn&#8217;t use a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[291,292,305],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ebook","tag-ebook-reader","tag-etext"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-j","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}