14 DAY TRIAL // Although Asus really took its sweet time before making their Eee Reader DR900 available for the general public, it would seem that the Taiwanese company has finally decided to start selling their long-awaited product in Europe, where it will arrive at some point over the course of December 2010.
As some of you might remember, we've first had the chance to go hands-on with the DR900 back at CeBIT 2010, and have been longing to see it arrive ever since.
There are plenty of reasons why the DR900 might prove to be quite a successful product, starting with its anti-reflective Electro Phoretic Display (EPD) technology that provides a natural reading experience that mimics ink on paper.
Unlike a conventional flat panel display technology, which uses a harsh backlight to illuminate its pixels, EPD reflects light like ordinary paper making it far more comfortable to read from for long periods and is capable of holding text and images indefinitely without drawing electricity, while still allowing virtually instant page changes at the touch of a button.
Moreover, the 9-inch 1024x768 resolution display offers plenty of room for the Eee Reader's popular portable document formats, including PDF, TXT, ePub, HTML, and FB2.
The device can also read ZIP and CBZ compressed files, popular images formats including JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP for pictures, comics and manga, and it can even plays MP3s via the built-in stereo speakers or the 3.5mm headphone jack.
Plus, the eBook reader sports 2 GB of internal memory and supports Micro SD Card for SDHC (expansion), while also providing a 3G network option and standard, integrated 802.11b/g Wi-Fi.
As TCMagazine informs us, the Asus Eee Reader DR900 will be priced in Europe at around 320 Euro, which is not that bad a price, all things considered, although we'll have to admit that Asus' device will have some tough competition.