14 DAY TRIAL // Although it came prepared with a few interesting surprises back at MWC 2011, Hanvon's decided to keep a few aces up its sleeve for CeBIT as well, the company revealing that they'll be introducing a couple of advanced eBook readers on this occasion.
We've had the chance of checking-out some of Hanvon's products at various trade-shows over the past couple of years, and we're quite happy to notice a serious increase in their overall quality, whether we're talking about the external design, features, functionality, etc.
In fact, Hanvon has managed to overcome its Chinese origins (not that there's something particularly wrong with Chinese products, it's just that the native ones are sort of famous for their low level of quality, combined with a low price point) and is now coming up with certain devices that are easily on par with those coming from the world's best-known CE manufacturers (most of which also use Chinese factories for production, for that matter).
Anyway, back to Hanvon, it seems that they'll be showcasing at CeBIT 2011 what they tout to be the world's first large-screen 200dpi high-resolution e-book reader and the world's first large-screen color-screen e-book reader.
Both of these products tout 9.7-inch E INK screens and pack Wi-Fi and 3G capabilities, as well as several other interesting functions, such as some pieces of business office software.
The company also mentions that their new eBook readers are touch-sensitive, but do require a special electromagnetic pen in order to work, allowing users to do side comments or excerpts from various articles.
In this way, beside providing very good reading capabilities, Hanvon's devices will also work as portable notepads (much in the same way as Asus' Eee Pad MeMO), a trend that we believe will become standard in the near future as far as eBook readers are concerned, at least if their manufacturers hope to stand a chance against tablets.