The Micro Cruz Reader and Micro Cruz Tablet from Velocity have come available for pre-order. As of now the devices are available on the Velocity website as well as with Borders. The Micro Cruz Reader is priced at $199.99 and expected to ship September 30th and the Micro Cruz Tablet is priced at $299.99 and showing a shipping date of October 15th.
And given you can purchase them at Borders, the likely assumption is correct in that they both ship with a Borders ebook reader app and access to the Borders eBook store.
Otherwise the Cruz Reader features a 7 inch 4:3 (800 x 600) touchscreen display with accelerometer, SD card slot, 256MB internal storage, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g and ships with a 4GB SD card. Other features include access to the Cruz Market, pre-loaded apps to include a dictionary, notepad, calendar, alarm clock, contacts and games. As for battery life, that was noted as being up to 10 hours of reading time and 24 hours on standby time.
The Cruz Tablet comes sporting a 7 inch 16:9 (800 x 480) capacitive touchscreen display, Android 2.1, 512MB RAM, 4GB internal storage, an 8GB SD card, Wi-Fi 802.11n, built-in speakers, miniUSB and a battery life of up to 10 hours of run time and 24 hours of standby time.
Lastly, both the Cruz Reader and Cruz Tablet offer support for ePUB, PDF, TXT, PDB and HTML files as well as MP3, WMA, AAC and WAV audio files, MPEG-4 video files and JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP image files. And in addition, the Cruz Tablet adds in a few more video formats including H.264, H.263, MOV and AVI.
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