{"id":543763,"date":"2010-04-26T17:52:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T21:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"9342 at http:\/\/www.androidcentral.com"},"modified":"2010-04-26T17:52:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T21:52:55","slug":"spring-design-alex-e-reader-gets-rooted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/543763","title":{"rendered":"Spring Design Alex e-reader gets rooted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtecenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/sites\/androidcentral.com\/files\/articleimage\/Jerry%20Hildenbrand\/2010\/04\/Alex-rooted.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 499px; height: 376px;\" class=\"lightbox2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/sites\/androidcentral.com\/files\/articleimage\/Jerry%20Hildenbrand\/2010\/04\/Alex-rooted.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"rteleft\">With the onslaught of e-readers in the works, and the tablet device craze gaining steam, life has to be tough for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/search\/alex\">Alex<\/a>.&nbsp; It clearly has slipped off the radar recently, even the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.springdesign.com\/us\/resource\/download\/news\/Spring%20Design%20to%20Ship%20Alex%20eReader%20Wednesday%20April%2014%20FINAL.pdf\">announcement that it&#8217;s started shipping already<\/a> didn&#8217;t find much coverage.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve not had a chance to fiddle with it, but I can see why some of the competition gets more favorable press.&nbsp; It&#8217;s big.&nbsp; It&#8217;s still running Cupcake.&nbsp; It has no menu button !?!<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteleft\">It does have however a nice, easy-to-read e-ink display. And as of late Sunday afternoon, it <br \/>has something else that many will be interested in &#8212;&nbsp; A mystery hacker by the name of <br \/>Bluebrain has got the thing cracked open.&nbsp; It looks to be a relatively simple task, all the <br \/>hard work has been wrapped up nicely into a single download. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rteleft\">I&#8217;m not convinced that this will be enough to save the Alex from a doomed life in the shadow <br \/>of iPads and Nooks, but it certainly piqued my interest in the device a little bit.&nbsp; We&#8217;ll <br \/>keep an eye on things, and if any sort of outside development community springs up (<em>pun <br \/>intended &#8211; zing!<\/em>) I know I&#8217;ll be looking at it a little harder.&nbsp; Anyone out there using an <br \/>Alex?&nbsp; We&#8217;d love to hear your thoughts and opinions in the comments! [via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/04\/26\/alex-e-reader-rooted-five-users-overwhelmed-with-joy\/\">engadget<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the onslaught of e-readers in the works, and the tablet device craze gaining steam, life has to be tough for the Alex.&nbsp; It clearly has slipped off the radar recently, even the announcement that it&#8217;s started shipping already didn&#8217;t find much coverage.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve not had a chance to fiddle with it, but I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6471,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543763","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\/6471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}