Portable Briefs

By TWICE Staff On Nov 22 2010 - 6:01am

Naxa Readies MID

VERNON, CALIF. — Naxa Electronics is entering the mobile internet device (MID) market with $149 Core, which will be formally unveiled at International CES.

The device will ship in late December or early January 2011.

The Android-based Core features a 7-inch color touchscreen, 8GB of embedded memory and Wi-Fi to access the web.

The 720p display changes its orientation from portrait to landscape when the unit is turned. Besides a USB port, it has HDMI ports and an SDHC memory slot.

Cydle Readies Tablet

FULLERTON, CALIF. — South Korea-based OEM supplier Cydle plans December availability of its first Cydle-branded tablet and is preparing to launch multiple new portable products at January’s CES.

The company’s first tablet is an Androidbased $249-suggested M7 Mobile Tablet. It features Android 2.1 OS, 7-inch TFT touchscreen with 800 by 480 resolution, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, ARM 11 800MHz processor, 1080p video playback, HDMI output, e-book reader, 8GB flash memory and MicroSD card slot.

Color E Ink Debuts

MAKUHARI MESSE, JAPAN — Havnon demonstrated the first commercially available color e-reader to compete with e-readers using color LCD displays. The e-reader incorporates E Ink Holdings’s E Ink Triton Imaging Film technology.

E Ink Holdings, whose grayscale displays are used in Amazon’s Kindles, said the new display offers “excellent readability” in sunlight, ultra-low power consumption and “paper-like aesthetics.”