The ASUS “Campus Life” blog reports that the Eee Note EA800 is about to hit shelves in North America at a list price of under $200 (which probably means “exactly $199.99”). The device is an 8” touchscreen 4GB e-ink “digital notepad” that comes with a stylus (or, as they call it, a “2,540dpi resolution touch pen that has 256 levels of pressure”) for precise, pressure-sensitive note-taking, annotating e-books, and so on.
It also includes a 2MP camera, micro USB, micro SD, 802.11 b/g WiFi, headphone jack, and speakers. Battery life is given as 13.5 hours with a 10-day standby.
The piece doesn’t mention whether the touchscreen is capacitive or resistive, or what e-book formats it supports, though it compares it to an Eee Reader. And the Eee Reader DR900 has a capacitive touchscreen and supports the EPUB format, so it seems likely this device will as well.
It’s unclear how well this device will be able to compete against more popular e-readers, or the color tablet disguised as an eReader Nook Color, but at least it’s got the price range right. And in embracing a sort of halfway position between an e-reader and a tablet, aiming at college students who want to take notes on their classes, it at least seems to be aiming for a niche that no one else has yet tried to fill.
(Found via E-Reader Info.)
If the reader is intended for college students taking notes, why didn’t they include bluetooth to attach a small folding keyboard?
I highly doubt that it is a capacitors screen since it can tell different pre assure levels (unless the pressure sensor is in the pen) and whit that accuracy.
most likely capacitive since resistive is getting old.
and i know for a fact that its the pen that reads the presure level (since it need a watch battery to work)
and no point for a keyboard (considering the whole point of this is writing with the pen), yet i admit bluetooth could be useful for headphones, keyboard ( for those who like typing more than writing) and such
This has electro-magnetic touch screen (wacom technology – pen touch only. no finger). Capacitive are unusable for note-taking.