14 DAY TRIAL // The e-reader market is not overly great in terms of model variety, but it is not poor in this regard either, nor do models get updated easily, what with successors being periodically offered, such as the BeBook Club.
E-readers have come to be a fairly common commodity around the world, even though they didn't even exist a few years ago, not in their standard form at least.
They really took off when Amazon, Sony and Barnes and Noble, eager to promote their online libraries of digitized content, created their respective devices.
Ever since then, the products went through several revisions, even gaining new features while still sticking to a low price point.
Sony is one of the companies most recently found to have revised its design, yielding a multi-touch enabled gadget which, nonetheless, has not yet arrived.
Meanwhile, BeBook has been advertising the Club, although its price of $179 never really encouraged sales very much, not with the Amazon Kindle and B&N Nook getting more and more affordable.
Now, however, a press release states that the Club S is on the way, where S stands for a variety of things.
'Sports', 'Screen', 'Storage', 'Speed' and 'Sight' are all areas that received something akin to an overhaul.
The item has a Marvell CPU (central processing unit) of 800 MHz, 1 GB of internal flash storage space (double compared to the predecessor), a high contrast Pearl E Ink display, a new controller (for speed and ease of use) and an optional SD card slot.
The company also promises a significant battery life, though it says nothing about pricing. Prospective buyers no doubt wish for a lower mark than the aforementioned $180, but this detail is still up in the air.
Fortunately, the Club S will be presented at IFA 2011 where this detail may be published at last.