ASUS made an official announcement about their upcoming DR-900 e-book reader. Based on the picture and the description that the screen displays “crisp, paper-like� pages, the touchscreen is probably only greyscale.
The overall size of the DR-900 is 222 x 161 mm, with a thickness of less than 1cm, making it almost twice as slim as the Amazon Kindle.The Asus DR-900 offers a 9-inch E-ink screen plus it has an SD card slot for further expansion over the 2GB built-in storage.
Connectivity seems better than for some dedicated mobile internet devices, featuring 802.11g Wi-Fi, 3.5G HSPA and optional WiMAX, and that’s just for wireless, whereas plugged, the DR-900 packs one micro USB 2.0 for connecting virtually any PC or Mac. Battery life: 10,000 pages or twenty 400-page novels on a single charge. And, File support are PDF, TXT, MP3 and ePUB files. Sadly, there is no info on pricing during this time.