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Asus Eee Note EA800 is one unique device. Among the sheer amount of tablets and eReader, this one is like no other. It is surely the first of its kind, as Asus named it “note taker”. It doesn’t have a gorgeous colourful screen with a nice browser. It doesn’t have an e-ink display that looks like paper either. Instead, it sports a 8 inch grayscale non-backlit and super sensitive LCD screen and it targets student customers with the ambition of “replacing notebooks in university”. In addition to that, it also includes a 2MP camera as well as the microphone to help students record the information they study in class. Its affordable price is also a great help for students.

Consequently, this one is a hard gadget to review. Firstly, it doesn’t like any other to be compared. Secondly, it only has a very small number of users and actually that is what it is supposed to. And thirdly, this one is not available outside Taiwan, and probably won’t.  Of course it doesn’t stop people from getting one via eBay or similar websites. I got mine for £159 and had to wait about one week for it to arrive. So, let’s start with the unboxing.

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Hi there. Here is another review for you. If you remember my iRiver Cover Story Touch review, you should know how great it is. (If you don’t remember or you don’t even know about it yet, you can always view it here) The iRiver Cover Story is a small, light weight and compact ebook reading device featuring a 8 level contrast e-ink touch screen. Although its display quality is far worse than most eReaders out there, it is packed with many great and unique features. For example you can reflow the pdf files so you can read pdf files just like a normal ebook in EPUB format. Or you can choose to zoom only a specific region of the pdf file, so you can cut out all of the unneccesary white margins, therefore make the text larger and easier to read. Or you can read comics or manga directly from the zip files without any conversion at all. You can even read doc/ppt files. Or you can take note in your ebook and view that later, or draw something or making note… all thanks to the touch screen. For those who don’t really care about the display quality, the iRiver Cover Story is such a great device, but for those who care, then it might be a problem, er.. thanks to the touch screen. And if someone don’t really need touch funcionalities and considering getting this or the famous Amazon Kindle, that could be a hard choice.

Fortunately, for people I mentioned above, I have another choice for you, the iRiver Story (the non-touch version). Here comes the unboxing and the review will follow shortly after that

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Hello everyone, I’m back with an all new unboxing video and a full-length review. This time I have a iRiver Cover Story Touch EB05W, an ebook reader with e-ink touchscreen. I got this one from www.waterstones.com with £99.99 which I think is a real bargain (The same one from www.iriver.co.uk costs £179.99, fyi)

However, compared to the well-known Amazon Kindle 3 Wifi with the price of £111, is the Cover Story Touch really worth it? We will cover that in a minute.

Before I start, there is something I want to say. This one is an ebook reader, not a tablet or something, so please, do not compare this one to the nook Color or, obviously, the iPad, or any other tablet. I know, nook Color is an ebook reader, and iPad has an amazing iBook application for reading ebook. However they are not in the same category. The nook Color and the iPad don’t have e-ink screen, and obviously the Cover Story Touch, and also the Amazon Kindle, can’t browse websites. Therefore as you are gonna see, in most of my review I will compare my iRiver to the Kindle, simply because they are in the same category. Of course the Sony readers may fit in the category too, but I haven’t used any, and also Kindle is the most well-known eReader out there, so fair enough.

So let’s start with the unboxing

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