14 DAY TRIAL // With all the success stories that we seem to be getting from the eReader market it seems quite strange that there are devices out there that don't even manage to get to see the light of day but this sort of things happen all the time in the tech world, the txtr reader being the latest gadget added to the “gone before its time” list.
Brought to our attention by the Digital Reader website, this latest piece of news comes from a former txtr employee that said the project has been quietly abandoned by the company.
Although the website doesn't want to give this news as an absolute certainty and prefers to label it as just a rumor until things become more official, the txtr did actually drop from sight sometime in mid September, so there might be some truth behind it.
Supposed to be launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair this year, the 6-inch text should have come with an electronic paper display that supported a 800x600 resolution, a Freescale ARM11 processor running at 532MHz with 128MB SDRAM as well as with a capacitative slider interface.
The eReader also came with a microSD memory card slot (a 8G card being bundled together with the device), Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity, as well as an integrated 3D accelerometer for automatic orientation adjustment.
All of these were running a custom Linux-based operating system, the txtr featuring support for EPUB and PDF e-Books as well as full integration with the txtr online communication platform.
Its USB-charged, Li-Ion battery should have been able to provide users with an impressive battery life, the txtr running up to two weeks on a single charge.
As far as pricing is concerned, this would have been available at €299, well above what other eReaders are retailing for, this being probably one of the reasons behind canceling the txtr.