14 DAY TRIAL // eReaders are a great thing to have around, especially when you need to do a little incognito reading during lunch break, but you don’t want to stuff your bag with heavy traditional books.
But most of us might be skittish of taking an eReader to the beach or to the pool (it takes only a few water drops touching my Kindle's screen for me to freak out) because we can easily damage them in such environments.
Noticing the lack of water-resistant eReaders, Pocketbook has taken advantage of the situation and has come up with a digital reading device capable of surviving being submerged in water. As a bonus, the device is also dust-proof (via The-Digital-Reader).
Meet the Pocketbook Aqua, an eReader with a low-resolution E-Ink screen and a pretty spacious 4GB of internal storage (no microSD card slot included) and Wi-Fi.
The eReader has been certified for IP57 standard, meaning it can come out unharmed if you keep it underwater (max 1 m / 3.28 feet) for up to 30 minutes. Leave it for more and you can say good-bye to your device.
The Aqua runs on Pocketbook's own software and a 1GHz CPU combined with a meager of 256MB of RAM. It’s going to come bundled with a variety of dictionaries, including in Russian, Ukrainian and other languages and will support ePub and PDF files.
The Aqua will make it to European markets, sporting a price of approximately €109 / $149.