enTourage eDGe Makes Its Official Appearance at CES

By Dena Cassella Published January 7, 2010

The eDGe device appeared on the tech front in Fall 2009, but it’s getting its official introduction at CES this week. The enTourage eDGe dualbook eReader is a multi-functional device that has a little bit of everything in it—tablet, netbook, media player and eReader in-one. The enTourage eDGe is a dual-screen, WiFi-enabled electronic device that merges a 9.7” (diagonal) e-paper screen with an LCD screen for ultimate interactivity. This new WiFi-enabled device has some useful features like the built-in noise-cancelling microphone, 1.3 Mega Pixel camera, a virtual keyboard, and an e-paper display that allows users to draw and take notes on.

enTourage says it is building its own e-book store with access to over 200,000 trade books and more than one million free public domain books digitized by Google. And guess what students; its e-book store also includes an abundance of higher education e-textbooks in a variety of subjects from publishers and content frequently adopted by professors for course use from Oxford University Press.

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“The enTourage eDGe is an industry-changing product, breathing new life into content by making e-books more digitally enhanced and interactive, while also offering capabilities of other leading devices in a single platform,” said Asghar Mostafa, CEO and president of enTourage Systems, Inc. “Partnering with McGraw Hill, Oxford University Press and John Wiley & Sons allows us to make the enTourage eDGe an even more powerful educational tool, creating a new-age learning experience for students.”

The enTourage eDGe is available for pre-orders now, and will be fully available in February 2010 online at www.entourageedge.com for $490. Check out the enTourage eDGe Facebook page or @enTourageeDGe Twitter handle.

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