Past April 17, Orange started tests of their new Read&Go device, involving 150 users that will have free access to the service for 2 months.
Read&Go service follows the same scheme of Amazon’s Kindle. It makes use of e-paper for a more comfortable reading of books and newspapers and wireless technologies for providing contents. In this case, Orange seems to bet on adding WiFi support to 3G technologies - opposing Amazon support of only Sprint’s EVDO network.
Five mainstream French daily newspapers have team up with Orange for provinding contents: Le Monde, Le Parisien, Les Echos, L’Equipe, Télérama… Of course, information will be houly updated.
Users will also initially get 30 preloaded books, stored on the reader’s 1GB of internal memory.
We have no data about commercial plans for Read&Go, but I think it’s time for such a device/service to hit European market.
Via blogWimax
Link Boursier.com
