Sungale shows off eReader and busted G2

Sungale at CES, in addition to the Kula TV and a plethora of digital photo frames, has two more interesting gadgets. The first is the eReader, the second being the G2, the next version of the Smart Info Engine (apparently also known as the G1 from what I was told).

The eReader is, obviously, an ebook reader. It is actually nothing all that spectacular. It has the seemingly standard 6-inch e-ink display, and can support most formats including ePub, .doc, TXT, PDF and excel, essentially everything the Sony Readers can handle. The eReader will even be able to read the books to you with text-to-speech in both English and Chinese. It lacks Wi-Fi for now, but a later iteration will. The current version will be marketed more towards schools as a textbook. The one strange part of the eReader is there’s no page back/forward buttons, instead it has a scroll wheel for going forward and back. This model will be available in late February/early March

The second product, the G2, unfortunately was broken when I visited Sungale. I was promised the working version runs on Android, however, which will make it hopefully much better than the previous version. The photos here are of a prototype version, the final product will evidently be much thinner than the prototype. It will have similar features to the Smart Info Engine, though it will have a better OS. It should be available sometime between April and June.