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- The Morning Coffee – 5 May 2014
- New Leak Reveals HP’s New Tablets Will Look Like Tablets
- Comixology Got a DRM-Stripping Tool Removed from Github
- New Look at the Onyx Boox T68 E-ink Android Tablet – 6.8″ Screen, Android 4.0
| The Morning Coffee – 5 May 2014 Posted: 04 May 2014 09:31 PM PDT Top stories this Monday morning include a comic book shop proponent with bad ideas about protecting comic book shops (link), a new lower VAT for audiobooks in Germany (link), bad copyright advice (link), and more.
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| New Leak Reveals HP’s New Tablets Will Look Like Tablets Posted: 04 May 2014 04:12 PM PDT Like Yesterday the font of all leaks @evleaks posted a set of images which show a couple of HP’s new tablets. The tablets are unnamed and lack any clearly identifying details, but it looks to me like there are only 2 models shown (unless the angle shots are throwing my guesstimates). We could be looking at the 7″ and 8″ models mentioned above, but HP has released 6″ and 7″ models elsewhere in the world, including models which have shown up at the FCC. Do you have any guesses as to what we’re looking at?     
Update: Mike Cane has pointed out that at least one of these tablets bears a striking resemblance to the HTC One. He also suggests that HP could be licensing the Hauwei MediaPad M1 design. It’s close enough that I wonder if he is right (please excuse the bad image editing):
Update: a reader has pointed out that both of the new HP tablets resemble the Hauwei X1 and M1 tablets which were launched at Mobile World Congress in February. (Thanks, jjj!) I think jjj is right, and so is Mike Cane; HP is licensing these designs (or @evleaks has been had, which I doubt). The M1 is an 8″ tablet with a screen resolution of 1280 x 800 and X1 is a 7″ tablet with a screen resolution of 1920 x 1200. Here’s the X1 side by side with the leaked HP tablet:
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| Comixology Got a DRM-Stripping Tool Removed from Github Posted: 04 May 2014 02:21 PM PDT Over In January 2014 I wrote about a Chrome plugin which enabled a user to download and strip the DRM from digital comics which had been legally purchased from Comixology. Sadly, that plugin is no more. According to a takedown notice dated 2 April, the plugin has been removed from Github at the request of Comixology. The plugin had been online for about 3 months, enabling users to backup their purchases, before being taken down. To be honest it was really only effective up until that security scare in early March, when Comixology discovered that their servers were hacked. Whatever they did to tighten security also broke the the Chrome plugin. This is at least the second such tool to be vanished by Comixology; I also found mentions of a previous tool which briefly made an appearance in May 2012 before it too was DMCA-ed by Comixology:
I was hoping to link to a Comixology DRM removal tool in my post for Tuesday, but at this point I don’t know where to find one. If you know where I should look, please send me an email or leave a comment. As we have been reminded many times over the years, no platform lasts forever. The only way to keep our purchases safe is to exert true control by downloading a backup copy and removing the DRM. The post Comixology Got a DRM-Stripping Tool Removed from Github appeared first on The Digital Reader. |
| New Look at the Onyx Boox T68 E-ink Android Tablet – 6.8″ Screen, Android 4.0 Posted: 04 May 2014 08:52 AM PDT If you This device, which I first reported on last October, runs Android 4.0 on a 1GHz Freescale CPU. It’s been under development for nearly a year now, and according to one of my sources it is just about ready to enter mass production (this confirms what is said in the video). The T68 is in many ways an Android tablet, and with a weight of around 250 grams it has the mass of one as well. It comes with a frontlight and touchscreen, and under the hood it packs in 512MB RAM, 4GB Flash storage, a microSD card slot, a headphone jack, Wifi, and Bluetooth. Best of all. the Boox T68 is equipped with a 6.8″ Pearl E-ink screen – the same screen as on the Kobo Aura HD.This screen has a resolution of 1440 x 1080, and it also features E-ink’s latest partial and full screen refresh tech. The video is rather short, but at least it does tell us that the T68 should enter mass production in June. Later in the video Charbax gets his hands on the M96. This is Onyx’s newest 9.7″ device, and it too runs Android 4.0 on a 1GHz CPU. And like the T68, it will ship with Google Play and access to all the apps sold there. There is no guarantee that the apps will work on either device, but just the possibility that they could work adds a lot of value to what would otherwise be a very expensive ebook reader.
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