{"id":5219,"date":"2010-03-30T09:17:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T14:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5219"},"modified":"2010-03-30T09:24:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T14:24:39","slug":"pioneer-computers-unveils-their-149-ebook-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5219","title":{"rendered":"Pioneer Computers Unveils their $149 eBook Reader."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5224\" title=\"Dreambook Color eBook\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/dreambook_colorebook-216x300.gif\" alt=\"Dreambook Color eBook\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/dreambook_colorebook-216x300.gif 216w, https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/dreambook_colorebook.gif 231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/>Here we go. I think it&#8217;s a horserace. I&#8217;d put <strong><a title=\"Kobo's eBook Reader $150\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5159\" target=\"_self\">Kobo&#8217;s $150 eBook Reader<\/a><\/strong> first out of the gates but Pioneer Computers didn&#8217;t waste any time getting their\u00c2\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Pioneer Computer Dreambook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pioneercomputers.com.au\/products\/info.asp?c1=3&amp;c2=133&amp;id=3162\" target=\"_self\">DreamBook Color eBook Reader W95<\/a><\/strong> into the race.<\/p>\n<p>Their machine offers a 5-inch <strong><a title=\"What's TFT mean?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wisegeek.com\/what-is-a-tft-monitor.htm\" target=\"_self\">TFT<\/a><\/strong> (LCD Display)\u00c2\u00a0screen with a native resolution of 800 x 480. It offers a portrait and landscape mode, supports <strong>eBook formats<\/strong> (EPUB, PDB,\u00c2\u00a0TXT, PDF, HTML and FB2),\u00c2\u00a0the <strong>photo<\/strong> formats (JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP), <strong>video<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0(MOV, MPEG, MPG, WMV, RM, AVI, RMVB, 3GP, FLV, MP4, DAT, VOB and\u00c2\u00a0MKV) and <strong>music<\/strong> (MP3, WAV,\u00c2\u00a0WMA, FLAC, AAC,\u00c2\u00a0OGG).<\/p>\n<p>Read the announcement here at <strong><a title=\"$149 eBook Reader\" href=\"http:\/\/smarthouse.com.au\/iPods_And_Portable_Players\/Industry\/U8W5R8H8\" target=\"_self\">smarthouse.com.au<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This is where price and multifunction delivery begin to bottleneck. It&#8217;s offering a lot on a fairly small screen, but the price will make it a perfect first adoption for the curious mainstream. And it satisfies the color, video and music fix for many who want all\u00c2\u00a0the bells and whistles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go. I think it&#8217;s a horserace. I&#8217;d put Kobo&#8217;s $150 eBook Reader first out of the gates but Pioneer Computers didn&#8217;t waste any time getting their\u00c2\u00a0DreamBook Color eBook Reader W95 into the race. Their machine offers a 5-inch TFT (LCD Display)\u00c2\u00a0screen with a native resolution of 800 x 480. It offers a portrait &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5219\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5219"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5229,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219\/revisions\/5229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}