At just over a quarter-inch in overall height, the device is the thinnest e-reader announced to date. It features the largest and highest-resolution electronic-paper display yet unveiled in a consumer device, at A full touchscreen enables users to intuitively navigate and engage with the newspapers, magazines, books and other digital content they purchase through the Skiff Store, as well as personal and work documents.
The device weighs just over one pound and lasts over a week of average use between charges. The Skiff Reader is designed not just for sleekness but also for durability. It is the first consumer product to feature the next-generation of e-paper display — one based on a thin, flexible sheet of stainless-steel foil.
This contrasts with the fragile glass that is the foundation of almost every electronic screen — and a primary source of vulnerability and breakage risk in the devices that incorporate them. Skiff has worked closely with LG Display NYSE: LPL , one of the world's leading display manufacturers and the innovator of the foil-display technology, to optimize and implement this first-of-its-kind non-glass display uniquely for the Skiff Reader.
Plans are underway to have the Skiff Reader available for purchase later this year in more than 1, Sprint retail locations across the U. This sleek device is going to be a large format e-reader that is to be used primarily for reading newspapers and periodicals, which will be displayed in a format that is very much similar to the actual paper copy. Skiff has a very generous display area, which stands at A stainless steel foil forms the base of the Skiff e-reader, which imparts a shatter-proof, crack-proof and a flexible characteristic to the device.
Designed by LG Display, it incorporates touch screen features that can accept both finger and stylus input. It is equipped with an internal memory that has a capacity of 4GB while the SD-card slot means, there is room for still more. What sticker price this device that is poised to usher in a radical change in the way we read newspapers or periodical has also been kept under wraps.
Its outer dimensions are 9 x 11 inches And it features a spacious The Skiff Reader has a full touchscreen that responds to finger swipes and taps, and it also works using a stylus. More key features include: USB port, built-in speaker, headphone jack, 1 week average battery life, shatterproof screen, highlighting and annotating, zooming. On thing to watch keep an eye on, the way everything is phrased in the press releases, it looks as if the Skiff service may use its own proprietary DRM for content purchased through them, meaning content won't display on non-Skiff devices and software.
Hopefully this won't be the case. And there's no mention of format support. Given this unique partnership, the Skiff Reader and Skiff platform will provide content from a diverse range of publications. Some are listed below; more can be found here.
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