Skiff, LLC and Sprint today announced that they volition preview the Skiff Reader, the first e-reader optimized for paper and cartridge holder content, at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas later this workweek.
The Skiff Reader, the initial dedicated gimmick to integrate the upcoming Skiff e-reading service, is remarkably sleek and easy to use. At just over a quarter-inch in boilersuit stature, the gimmick is the thinnest e-reader announced to appointment. It features the largest and highest-resolution electronic-paper exhibit yet unveiled in a consumer device, at 11.5″ in size (measured diagonally) and a solving of 1200 x 1600 pixels (UXGA). A full touchscreen enables users to intuitively navigate and engage with the newspapers, magazines, books and other digital subject they leverage through the Skiff Store, as wellspring as personal and work documents. The device weighs just over unity hammer and lasts over a week of average use between charges.
“The Skiff Reader’s big blind will case photographic print media in compelling new ways,” said Gilbert Fuchsberg, prexy of Skiff, LLC. “This is consistent with Skiff’s focus on delivering enhanced meter reading experiences that engage consumers, publishers and advertisers.”
The Skiff Reader is designed not just for sleekness but also for durability. It is the first consumer product to lineament the next-multiplication of e-paper display – one based on a thin, flexible sheet of stainless-steel transparency. This contrasts with the fragile field glass that is the creation of almost every electronic screen – and a primary election source of vulnerability and break peril in the devices that incorporate them. Skiff has worked closely with LG Display (NYSE: LPL – News), unity of the world’s leadership display manufacturers and the pioneer of the transparency-exhibit engineering, to optimize and implement this first-of-its-sort non-field glass exhibit uniquely for the Skiff Reader.
Skiff has signed a multi-class agreement with Sprint to provide 3G connectivity for Skiff’s dedicated e-reading devices in the United States. Plans ar underway to rich person the Skiff Reader available for purchase later this year in more than 1,000 Sprint retail locations across the U.S., as wellspring as online at www.sprint.com. Availability, pricing, additional distribution channels and other inside information volition be disclosed at a later date.
“The forthcoming launching of the Skiff Reader is an exciting development for consumers who are look for more and more selection in the scene of action of embedded devices,” said Dan Dooley, president wholesale solutions, Sprint. “We rich person witnessed a strong demand for e-readers in recent years and now Sprint is display its committal to Skiff by making this new gimmick available on the 3G net and for sale in Sprint retail stores.”
In Oct 2009, Sprint announced the formation of its Emerging Solutions Business that focuses exclusively on the rapid delivery of machine-to-car and mobile calculation solutions to businesses and consumers. Sprint’s partnership with Skiff builds on more than 10 years of experience in workings with vendors to provision non-Sprint-branded devices to operate on its networks, as well as extensive expertness in operating multiple platforms and assets.
In addition to 3G, the Skiff Reader volition also support radio connectivity via wireless local area network.
The Skiff Reader will lineament the Skiff overhaul and digital memory board, allowing consumers to wirelessly purchase and access a wide diverseness of newspapers, magazines, books, blogs and other subject from multiple publishers. Newspaper and magazine subject delivered by Skiff volition feature visually appealing layouts, high gear-resolution graphics, rich composition and moral force updates, supporting keystone design qualities that help publications differentiate themselves and attract subscribers and advertisers.
Besides the Skiff Reader, Skiff is working with major consumer electronics manufacturers to integrate Skiff’s service, digital memory board and node software system into a stove of innovative devices. By support a diverseness of devices from multiple manufacturers, and through complementary color applications for major smarting phone platforms, Skiff will shuffle it easier for publishers to distribute content and advertising across a range of devices and shape factors, an increasingly important end as the e-meter reading marketplace continues to grow.
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