Video: Shanda Bambook ebook reader unboxed

August 10th, 2010 | 5 Comments | Posted in Handheld

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The Shanghai Based Shanda is known as a gaming company, but these years the company has been expanding very fast. Its sub-company Shanda Literature has been acquired 7 most popular Chinese online writing websites, include the biggest one qidian.com, which makes Shanda the Chinese biggest online content provider. More than a week ago, Shanda officially unveiled its e-book reader Bambook, which is definitely a big move for the company to enter the mobile reading market.

Bambook is powered by Android OS, bringing with a 6 inches 600×800 16 gray level E-ink display. With this hardware launching, Shanda also announce its online ebook store Cloud Bookstore, which contains millions of ebooks and large content integrated from its online writing websites. Users can access Cloud bookstore on Bambook through WI-FI or 3G connectivity. Bambook supports many ebook formats, including snb, txt, ppt/pptx, pdf, html, umd, doc/docx, chm, epub. It’s said its battery life could support 24 days standby time. Moreover, it comes with an optional solar charging feature. So that means you can charging it while reading on it in Sunshine? Not sure now.

Shanda currently is carrying out a beta test for it, which only open to 3500 customers with a price of 998 Yuan (about $147 USD). It’s said its official price might be around 1800 Yuan (about $260 USD). People behind Chinese website PConline have got an unite and they’ve also published an unboxing video. Take a look.

[Source: PConline]
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