The Palm Reading iReader Ocean 3 e-book reader has been officially unveiled in China. The device features a built-in 28-level DC dimming light. The gadget is equipped with a 7-inch Carta 1200 panel with 1680 x 1264 pixels resolution and 300ppi. The Ocean3 is pretty slim and is just 4mm thick.

The iReader Ocean3 has a new customized ink screen CPU that significantly reduces power consumption by up to 30%. This implies that the gadget can fully operate for up to 75 hours on a single charge. The reading time is also further increased to 75 hours and standby time reaches 30 days. The adopted 28-level DC dimming using indirect nano-light guide technology. The cold and warm dual color lights have also been upgraded with uniformity of the front light and screen at 96%.

The iReader Ocean3 features RENK typesetting engine, night view mode, omniscient eye, and WeChat direct transmission. The gadget also provides Chinese – English translation and, overall, it brings an excellent reading experience to users. The iReader Ocean3 has a 1,800mAh battery that delivers improvements due to the gadget’s impressive power management architecture.

The Palm iReader Ocean3 7-inch ebook reader is available in China starting at 1,299 yuan (~$189). It can be purchased from retail platforms across the country including JD.com. There are no indications yet on the global availability and pricing of the gadget. It is also unclear some key details of the model. It is expected that Palm will provide global availability and pricing, as well as full specs of the Ocean3 later.

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PocketBook, a company that makes e-readers, has launched the InkPad Color, which is claimed to be the first device with a new Kaleido panel to be available in the United States and the European market.

The PocketBook InkPad Color comes with a 7.8-inch display with 1404 x 1872 pixels screen resolution that uses the latest E-Ink color panel. The screen size is bigger compared to the 6-inch panel in PocketBook Color launched last year.

It offers 300-dpi resolution for monochrome content and 100 dpi for displaying colors. The company reveals that the new version of Kaleido has a different color filter pattern that offers better contrast and color saturation than the first Kaleido, which is itself a pretty new technology. It also says that the screen refresh rate has been improved in software.

Similar to the previous model, this one also comes powered by a dual-core 1GHz CPU with 1GB of RAM and 16GB of built-in storage. There’s also a microSD card slot that allows users to further expand the storage capacity.

For connectivity, the device comes with support for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. It supports a number of formats, including ePub, PDF, CBR, CBZ, FB2, HTML, MOBI, and others. It also supports audio files and text-to-speech.

The device is running a Linux-based operating system and is powered by a 2,900mAh battery. It is now available for purchase for a price of $329.

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Back in 2016, Amazon launched Kindle Oasis, the company’s premium e-book reader that features a dedicated page turn buttons. Last year, the device was upgraded and the company launched the second-generation Kindle Oasis.

Now, Amazon has launched the third-generation Kindle Oasis in India which comes with a 7-inch display, adjustable color temperature for night reading, and more. It is now available for pre-order via Amazon India and will go on sale from 19th August.

The new Kindle Oasis features a 7-inch glare-free paperwhite display with 300ppi pixel density. The company says that it uses the latest e-ink technology and features 25 LEDs up front, which can be color adjusted.

For nighttime reading, you can turn the display color tone to warm, ensuring that it does not cause eye fatigue. During the day, the color tone can be set too cool. Also, you can automatically set the e-book reader to adjust colors based on sunset and sunrise.

It has dimensions of 159 x 141 x 3.4-8.3 mm and weighs 194 grams. It comes in two storage variants — 8GB and 32GB and users get free cloud storage for all Amazon content. Connectivity options include Wi-Fi 802.11n and an optional 4G, and supports formats like Kindle Format 8 (AZW3), Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF and more.

The device is also IPX8 rated to protect against immersion in up to two meters of fresh water for up to 60 minutes. Apart from this, users can adjust the text size and boldness and read with Kindle-exclusive fonts for maximum readability. As usual, this new Kindle Oasis offers several weeks of battery life on a single charge.

The new Kindle Oasis is priced at Rs. 21,999 (~$316) for the 8GB Graphite version and Rs. 24,999 (~$359) for the 32GB WiFi Champagne Gold version. On the other hand, the 32GB WiFi + 4G Graphite version costs Rs. 28,999 (~$416).

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Amazon’s Kindle may not be the first e-book reader that was released but the device is presently the most popular and perhaps highest-selling e-Book reader around. It looks like Xiaomi could also be planning to release a Kindle-like reader as early as next week, at least according to a new product review. However, there is uncertainty if the product will be a Xiaomi-branded one or from one of its ecological chain companies. Since there is no official pre-launch promotion, the likely possibility, though, is that it will be a third-party product that would be launched by Xiaomi under the MIJIA/Youpin crowdfunding platform.

From the leaked picture of the e-Book reader, it uses e-ink screen which is standard for all e-books and has a red power button at the top right corner. The screen looks like an 8-incher with a wide border around it for easy grip. As usual, e-book readers are basically to read e-books so we don’t expect the gadget to have any eye-popping features. The hardware is also expected to be entry-level. To recap, Amazon’s Kindle has no more than 2GB RAM on its highest version and all run on MediaTek SoCs. We also expect features such as WiFi, and a cheap price tag on the upcoming Xiaomi e-reader.

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It is worth mentioning that Xiao Mu, the general manager of Xiaomi’s intelligent hardware department, and Li Chuangqi, the senior product director of Xiaomi, both confirmed back in November last year that one of Xiaomi’s eco-chain companies was preparing a Kindle-like e-book reader. The product design was said to have been at 75% completion back then. It has been half a year since and if it progresses smoothly, the project may have finally taken shape.

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