Photo Gallery Everyman's E-Reader
Weighing in at just 128 grams and costing a fraction of the price of comparable products, the German company Txtr announced its new light-weight, low-cost e-reader this week before the start of the Frankfurt Book Fair. Bundled with a mobile-phone contract, the reader will cost less than 10 euros.
The Beagle, a new e-book reader from the Berlin-based company Txtr, should be on the market in time for Christmas. It has a 5-inch (12.7 centimeter) display screen and few of the bells and whistles that considerably more expensive competitors offer.
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The e-reader doesn't even have a rechargeable battery. Instead, it takes two AAAs.
Foto: Txtr
The Beagle is part of an emerging type of device called "companion readers," which can only be used in concert with a smartphone. In the Beagle's case, e-books must be transferred from a Bluetooth-enabled smart phone onto the device and can't be downloaded directly using wireless Internet or connection to a mobile network. The Beagle doesn't even have a USB port.
Foto: Txtr
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