iRex Technologies, Verizon, and Best Buy have made a partnership. Best Buy will sell the iRex DR800SG in their stores with unlimited Verizon 3G data speeds. The DR800SG will cost $399 and have an 8.1″ touchscreen.
E-books will be downloaded from the Barnes & Noble online store. The e-bookstore also has 1,100 newspapers from Newspaper Direct. The 3G connection is powered by Qualcomm Gobi radio technology. Best Buy will be selling the DR800SG next month. The e-book reader also comes with a stylus as pictured above.
Dutch company IREX Technologies and Barnes & Noble have made an alliance. IREX is the second e-book reader company to have partnered with Barnes & Noble with Plastic Logic being the first. Plastic Logic plans to launch an e-book reader next year itself.
IREX said that their partnership with Barnes & Noble will not be exclusive. IREX is already selling e-book readers in Europe, but not yet in the U.S. Irex’s e-book reader will have an 8.1″ touch screen and 3G wireless connection.
“We will change the dynamics of the consumer market – users want to easily purchase content from a variety of sources and we allow them to read it on an IREX eReader as well as other devices,” stated Irex North American CEO Kevin Hamilton.
iRex has announced that they are planning to unleash a new ebook reader in 2011. The device is not yet named and it will be using a subtractive color mixing. The color mixing will make the ebook reader three times brighter than current electrophoretic displays. Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos stated that the color-screen version of a Kindle will be years from happening. If iRex’s color device does come out next year, then Amazon.com may see some real competition for their e-book reader. The full press release is available after the jump:
