{"id":193904,"date":"2010-01-18T08:15:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T13:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5450795"},"modified":"2010-01-18T08:15:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T13:15:10","slug":"asus-dr-950-yet-another-ebook-reader-thats-more-impressive-than-the-kindle-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/193904","title":{"rendered":"Asus DR-950: Yet Another eBook Reader That&#8217;s More Impressive Than the Kindle [Readers]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/500x_asusnew.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/>Out of nowhere, Asus has announced two promising eBook readers. The first <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5450254\/long+lasting-asus-dr+570-wants-in-on-the-ebook-reader-biz-too\">had an OLED screen<\/a>. And now their second reader, the DR-950, promises less color but still appears to be at least a generation beyond any Kindle.<\/p>\n<p>Just look at the screen to case ration of the DR-950&mdash;it&#8217;s within reason, like a painting wrapped with a frame. That&#8217;s a 9-inch, 1024\u00d7768 display in the middle, yet the DR-950 manages to be but .35-inches thick.<\/p>\n<p>Inside, the 950 houses anywhere from 2-4GB of storage, an SD card slot, Wi-Fi and HSDPA, the potential for WiMax, 3.5mm headphone jack and USB.<\/p>\n<p>The system&#8217;s software supports text to speech, RSS and a nice mix of codecs including PDF, ePub and HTML.<\/p>\n<p>No word on price\/availability, but from the looks of it, the DR-950 could belong in our <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5445603\/the-ultimate-guide-to-ebook-readers-we-care-about\">Ultimate eBook Reader Guide<\/a>. Now the 950 just needs to actually get itself released. 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The first had an OLED screen. And now their second reader, the DR-950, promises less color but still appears to be at least a generation beyond any Kindle. Just look at the screen to case ration of the DR-950&mdash;it&#8217;s within reason, like a painting wrapped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}