[Marketing] Competitive Landscape: enTourage eDGe™ - First dual screen LCD / Eink notebook due Feb 2010

[Sean DALY]

Super interesting, thanks Mike!

Sean


On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 5:21 AM, Mike Lee <curiouslee at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just caught this via an article on Wired News:
>
> Dual-Screen Device Combines E-Reader, Netbook
> http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/edge-e-reader-netbook/
>
> The company's web site has this to say:
>
> The enTourage eDGe™ is the world’s first dualbook, combining the functions
> of an e-reader, netbook, notepad, and audio/video recorder and player in
> one. It’s a comprehensive device that lets you read e-books, surf the
> Internet, take digital notes, send emails and instant messages, watch movies
> and listen to music anywhere, at any time. This is nothing you've ever seen
> before! Get books wirelessly, move files onto your enTourage eDGe™ using an
> SD card or a USB flash drive. And with a netbook built in, you can forget
> the limitations of other e-readers, the enTourage eDGe™ does it all!
>
> http://www.entourageedge.com/entourage-edge.html
>
> This weird hybrid runs on Google Android, but I imagine it could boot Sugar
> on one of the screens. The product is positioned as an ebook that's
> secondarily a netbook with virtual on-screen and optional Bluetooth
> keyboard. They compare this device to other ebooks like the Kindle DX at a
> time when there is a price war brewing. By February, I'll wonder if their
> $490 price holds up in the marketplace. Along with the Asus dual screen
> prototype, it does look like the manufacturers are taking on NN's call to
> copy the XO-2 concept. This may force OLPC to innovate beyond.
>
> Interestingly, the company is based in McLean, Virgina, so it would be easy
> to pay them a visit.
>
> Mike
>
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