Panasonic's android eReader tablet officially announced

We first heard about Panasonic’s plans for an Android e-book reader a few weeks ago. The information was pretty insufficient, they didn’t even tell us the name of the device! Well, that’s changed.

Panasonic has finally made the details of their upcoming product available. Named the “Raboo”, the company also shared with us details about the product’s price and availability

The Raboo device will support the Rakuten book store in Japan with about 10,000 eBook titles available for purchase. What the tablet won’t have is support for the official Google Andorid Market. Panasonic’s eReader will feature a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, Android 2.2 operating system, 8GB of storage, a microSDHC card slot, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, and Bluetooth 2.1. It has a 6 hour battery and weighs about 0.9 pounds.

The tablet can support 1080p HD video playback, but it doesn’t have an HD display or feature HDMI output, so the only real advantage is that you can watch HD videos on the device without transcoding them to a lower resolution format first.

Source: Tips4tech