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, USB 2.0 connectivity, and rechargeable lithium polymer battery that can offer up to 40 hours of continuous reading time. The FLEPia runs the Japanese version of Windows CE 5.0, and supports ebook formats (Bunko/XMDF and T-Time that are widely used in Japan.
