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enTourage burst on to the scene last year with a brand new concept — a dual-screen device that has an e-Ink display on one side and a color display on the other. The former had a Wacom digitizer feature and the other was a full fledged touchscreen. Now, the time finally seems to have come for the device to come out in a new way. Entourage has just made a new version of the device official — Pocket eDGe — claimed to be the smallest dualbook in existence.
The e-Ink display has digitizer technology from Wacom and measure 6 inches. The color screen is 7 inch in size and is a touchscreen. The idea is that you will can be using on display or both at once, depending on what you are working on. One workflow that uses both screens is when you have to do a quick web search whilst reading a book. May be to look up a reference or a meaning. At that moment you can drag things from the e-Ink display to the color screen and work with them. Another use case is where you can read an e-book on the e-ink screen and if there’s an image; you can view it in color. Words can be highlighted on the e-ink screen and then searches on Google, Wikipedia can be made with that word.
The e-ink display cannot display anything other than static things and is useless for anything other than reading because it has a really low FPS performance. So one might argue that it would’ve been much easier to just have one screen that does everything. Well, the idea here is that you will can use the device in anyway you like without sacrificing battery life unnecessarily. If you want to read a book and make some notes and highlights — you can use the e-Ink display and enjoy a really great battery life. On the other hand, you will still have the option of using the color display for the times when you need to surf the web and look at things in color. So even though you are carrying only one device, you getting the best of both worlds.
The Pocket eDGe is an Android device but it will not be able to access the Android Market because it is a non-standard device. However, enTourage Systems is offering some applications on their own accord, which are available for download from their website. They are also saying that you can get applications from Third-party app devs. But that does not mean there already are third-party apps for it.
enTourage is following the market trends and offering some content from their own web store. They offering what they call a “vast array of e-Books” along with some periodicals and music. E-Book support is extensive and supports common formats like EPUB and PDF. The LCD screen also supports viewing and editing of all Microsoft Office documents.
The Pocket eDGe is geared mostly towards the academically inclined ones. It has a built-in microphone and camera — which the company says are for recording lectures and then revisiting them later. No doubt though that having a Wacom Penabled e-Ink screen really helps in taking notes while reading and these supportive features also help a lot. enTourage Systems seems to have researchers and students as their target audience mostly. Even the publishers seem to be university and academics oriented in general.
The functionality of the device is also quite flexible. The LCD screen can be set to display in both portrait and landscape orientations. It can be opened completely so that the screens are back to back — enabling you to use only one screen if you want. It will be retailing at $399.
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