Augen demos new family of caffeine-inspired tablets, teases dual-booting Android and Ubuntu slate -- Engadget

Augen demos new family of caffeine-inspired tablets, teases dual-booting Android and Ubuntu slate -- Engadget:

"Gentouch Latte - Just like the original, the next version of the Gentouch 78 has a 7-inch resistive display, 800MHz TCC 8902 processor, 2GB of storage, and no Android Market access. So, what has Augen improved exactly? Well, the tablet will run Android 2.2, has an accelerometer, and as you can see from the picture above, the buttons have been moved from the back of the device to the front. We don't need to tell you that the resistive screen makes this thing a real pain to use, but obviously, at $150 Augen is still aiming at the low-end here."

The Augen low-end tablet needs a lower price. Give it a month or two I guess.

Augen “The Book” – $90 is cheaper than $99

Augen “The Book” – Yet another new eReader for us to relish – and cheap too!!! | eBookAnoid

One of the cheapest color readers out there. So-so hardware quality but for the price it can't be beat. I'd like to see what the hackers can do with it.
No touchscreen, but for if you are writing paragraphs of stuff then a keyboard is probably the best bet. Neither methods are particularly fast.

No idea what Canadian availability is like, but then again I'm not that interested.

Augen The Book e-Reader Video Review, First Impressions | The eBook Reader Blog

Augen The Book e-Reader Video Review, First Impressions | The eBook Reader Blog

A good video review of the "Augen The Book" e-Reader. It covers pretty much everything except wi-fi web browsing; the reviewer had messed up the wi-fi password when he was ready to do the review but had it working and confirmed that it worked OK.

I was underwhelmed by the overall speed of device, but for the (K-Mart) price it would certainly be a viable choice as a first time Android device. If I had to choose between the Augen and the Eken M001 I'd probably take this one.

Augen The Book e-Reader - 7" Color LCD for $89

Nathan at The e-book Reader Blog picked one up at K-Mart for only $89US. Its being sold online (for pre-order in some cases) for $129. While it doesn't have a touchscreen it does have a full QWERTY keyboard.

7" Color Screen / 2GB Internal Memory / SD Slot / WiFi capable / Built-in Speaker / MP3 and Video Player / CPU: Ingenic 4755, Arm9 400 MHz / OS: Linux 2.6.24

I hope the K-Mart price drop leads to a quick drop on the gadget websites out there. With the Wi-fi web surfing this could be a great dual e-reader/web surfer.

Augen The Book e-Reader Video Review, First Impressions | The eBook Reader Blog

Kindle-Like LCD eReader: Augen “The Book” Available for Pre-Order | e-Bookvine