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Which company is making e-Ink readers for that cheap?

Tycho 14y ago
txtr http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/txtr-beagle-8-kindle-rival-174316464.html http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/txtr-beagle-8-kindle-rival-... Not sure about all the details but the gist is you can make these things cheaper by stripping out some of the features that the Kindle has: built-in battery, wifi, 3G, lots of controls on the device.
- TeMPOraL 14y ago
  I'd love to get my hands on e-ink displays for < £8; I'd put them to great use. A replacement screen for Kindle costed me around $45 two months ago.
  - asdfs 14y ago
    Same. It's unfortunate that there's seemingly no way to obtain e-ink displays directly from the manufacturers. I don't know how txtr is managing to obtain such a low price point, though. 4GB of flash, a CPU, RAM, the display, the case, manufacturing costs, a bluetooth radio, and two AAA batteries seems extremely difficult to obtain for < $13. This is not including the price of manufacturing and shipping. EDIT: Ah, I see. They've got their own book store, so they're hoping to recoup costs on that.
polshaw 14y ago
No one ..start of 2013 you will be able to get it with a mobile contract in the UK.. so not 8gbp and who knows why they banded about that figure then. Future looks bright, though. FTA; "The catch You won’t be able to get the txtr beagle as a standalone product just yet. Instead the plan is to distribute it as an accessory on smartphone mobile phone contracts. I can understand why txtr is taking this approach, after all it's reliant on a smartphone for transfers, but I'm still disappointed that txtr isn't brave enough to launch the product on its own. Txtr hope to bring the product to the UK at the beginning of next year but were unable to comment on which mobile phone operators were in the pipeline to offer the device with their contracts."
wpietri 14y ago
Excellent question. Amazon's Kindle is being sold basically at cost. Amazon has incredible power to make suppliers dance, and they've spent years bringing the price of the Kindle down. So I don't think it's possible to make a decent e-reader significantly cheaper than the Kindle without subsidies.

Tycho 14y ago

txtr http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/txtr-beagle-8-kindle-rival-174316464.html http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/txtr-beagle-8-kindle-rival-... Not sure about all the details but the gist is you can make these things cheaper by stripping out some of the features that the Kindle has: built-in battery, wifi, 3G, lots of controls on the device.

TeMPOraL 14y ago
I'd love to get my hands on e-ink displays for < £8; I'd put them to great use. A replacement screen for Kindle costed me around $45 two months ago.
- asdfs 14y ago
  Same. It's unfortunate that there's seemingly no way to obtain e-ink displays directly from the manufacturers. I don't know how txtr is managing to obtain such a low price point, though. 4GB of flash, a CPU, RAM, the display, the case, manufacturing costs, a bluetooth radio, and two AAA batteries seems extremely difficult to obtain for < $13. This is not including the price of manufacturing and shipping. EDIT: Ah, I see. They've got their own book store, so they're hoping to recoup costs on that.

polshaw 14y ago

No one ..start of 2013 you will be able to get it with a mobile contract in the UK.. so not 8gbp and who knows why they banded about that figure then. Future looks bright, though. FTA; "The catch You won’t be able to get the txtr beagle as a standalone product just yet. Instead the plan is to distribute it as an accessory on smartphone mobile phone contracts. I can understand why txtr is taking this approach, after all it's reliant on a smartphone for transfers, but I'm still disappointed that txtr isn't brave enough to launch the product on its own. Txtr hope to bring the product to the UK at the beginning of next year but were unable to comment on which mobile phone operators were in the pipeline to offer the device with their contracts."

wpietri 14y ago

Excellent question. Amazon's Kindle is being sold basically at cost. Amazon has incredible power to make suppliers dance, and they've spent years bringing the price of the Kindle down. So I don't think it's possible to make a decent e-reader significantly cheaper than the Kindle without subsidies.