Kindle Review has a summary, with comments, on seemingly all available, and rumored, ereaders. It makes an excellent reference. Covered are Dell, Asus, Sony, Kindle, Foxit, Neolux, Azbooka, Hanlin, BeBook, Cool-er, Samsung, Bookeen, Onyx, Hanlin, Pocketbook, txtr, Plastic Logic, Apple, Netronix, iRex, Fujitsu and Brother....

All Things Digital is reporting the above. This is great news as I don't think anyone can compete with Amazon unless they have a wireless reader. Plastic Logic's unit will be wireless, and has announced a connection wit Barnes & Noble, but it won't be available until next year and Plastic Logic has said that their unit will be targeted at business users. That will compete with the DX, but won't play into the consumer space. We now have to wait and see what Sony does. I wonder what will happen at the press conference...

David Carnoy of CNET is offering the following. Let's hope he is right: Here's the little we know: * 8.1-inch display * 3G wireless connectivity (no carrier announced) * Touch screen with stylus navigation * Fall 2009 release Until now iRex, one of the early e-reader pioneers (you remember the iLiad, right?), has mainly offered more business-oriented readers that are rather pricey and sold primarily to European customers. However, this model is a consumer model that will be sold in the U.S., as well as other countries (here in the States, I suspect it will cost less than $400 and possibly less than $350). Allegedly,...

The Register, the site with the best logo in the world, reviews the iRex DR1000S ereader. Here are some highlights. You can find the full review here. ... Electronic-ink screens have been pushed into the role of electronic books but, like Amazon, iRex has realised that the real money isn't in electronic books at all, but in electronic document readers. Executives, or journalists – who have to plough through enormously long documents – will pay handsomely for a device that enables them to easily read, and make notes on, such documents with the minimum of fuss. ... In short the...

“iRex’s subtractive color mixing technology will allow us to produce a wide range of colors in high resolution to deliver magazine-quality color to our e-reader customers.” – IRex display expert Alex Henzen. Details: iRex’s new technology is to offer “three times the brightness of current color prototypes.” The full news release is here. The color should be helpful not only with newspapers and magazines but also in K-12 apps, which perhaps will also benefit from iRex’s efforts to ruggedize its screens....

“It is definitely a logical path, and a logical conclusion, but I cannot confirm that we are working with News Corp.” - iRex CEO Hans Brons, as quoted in Peter Kafka’s piece in All Things Digital....

When I first got my Kindle 1, I reviewed two of M-Edge’s cases here and here.  Now that I have my Kindle 2 I contacted M-Edge and they were good enough to send me review units of two of their new cases.  Here we are going to look at my favorite, the Platform.  Rather than use publicity pictures I always try to take my own so that you can see what units look like in “real life” The case is of pebbled padded leather with a strap down the front.  At the bottom the strap folds towards the back of the...

"iRex Technologies has reached agreement with Adobe® to license the Reader Mobile 9 SDK, which provides support for the PDF and EPUB file formats, plus support for Adobe’s content protection technology, which it will offer on its iRex DR1000 series." - iRex announcement. The TeleRead take: iRex Tech, much stronger in hardware than software, should be an ideal candidate for Adobe's software developers kit. Meanwhile the news is another indication that e-book tech is becoming increasingly modularized, with Adobe striving to provide master modules in the software area. This could hurt Amazon/Kindle if...