Tag archive: FLEPia

Fujitsu subsidiary Fujitsu Fronttech has introduced the FLEPia (Japanese), which the company is touting as the “first color e-paper mobile terminal”—that's what most consumers would describe as a color ebook reader. The FLEPia features an 8-inch 1,024 by 768-pixel color e-paper display capable of displaying up to 260,000 colors; the unit also offers 802.11b/g WiFi and Bluetooth wireless networking, SD memory card storage,… Read More

Just when Amazon looked like king of the mountain with its Kindle 2 eBook collecting reams of press coverage, Fujitsu seems to have punched the wind out of the poor thing with the FLEPia – the very first color eBook. Fortunately for Amazon, a number of caveats associated with moving over to full color may make the FLEPia more of a novelty than a true head-to-head competitor with the Kindle. The FLEPia’s eight-inch screen offers 1024 x 768… Read More

Gadget Travel Guide Part I: Keeping Powered Power is the pulsating lifeblood of every gadget, and unless you find away to keep the battery cells in your army of electronic gizmos topped off, all you’re looking at is a black screen. Though advances in battery technology and more efficient circuitry have done wonders to keep your gadgets alive for longer in recent years, keeping them juiced up on longer trips can still be… Read More