According to Campus Technology the education-oriented Kno tablet, mentioned by Chris below, will start shipping this week. Priority will be given to students and faculty. The tablet was designed specifically for the education market and will start at $599 for the single screen model.
Kno devices sport one or two 14.1-inch, 1,440 x 900-pixel touchscreens and can display full-scale textbooks , videos, and other multimedia. They also support notetaking, educational apps, Web browsing, and content sharing. Kno is also operating an electronic textbook store featuring “tens of thousands of textbooks from most of the major publishers, with new books being added regularly,” according to Kno. The tablets made their formal debut in June 2010 in the dual-screen configuration and went into beta testing with higher education students this fall using software from education publishers Cengage Learning, McGraw-Hill Education, Pearson, and Wiley. The single-screen version was announced in late September.
Thanks to Michel von Glahn for the link.
