In the “e-book reader that’s really a computer without the computer bits” department comes the Sungale Cyberus Smart Info Engine. The Cyberus is a 7-inch slate device that provides “an e-Book reader, photo display, card reader, and streaming audio and video player, plus clock, calendar and alarm functions” according to the PR.
If you are confused as to exactly what you can do with the Cyberus, you’re not alone. The PR goes on to claim “the full complement of Wi-Fi applications for the device includes: Weather, News from Yahoo or Google, YouTube, Traffic: Driving Directions by Zip, IP Radio, Picasa, Stock, Gmail Alerts, Notepad, Calendar, Clock and Alarm.”
So basically, what you have is a an e-book reader that handles PDF and TXT files, a media player that handles AVI, MPEG4, DIVIX, XIVID, WMA, JPG, BMP, TIFF, PNG files, and a web computer without a browser or OS. All of this can be found on Amazon at the starting MSRP of $279.
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