Spring Design’s new Alex eReader is officially for sale today. Similar to Nook, it’s a dual-screen eReader with a  6″ eInk display on top and 3.5″ color touch LCD on the bottom. Here are some additional highlights:
- Custom Android 1.5
- 600MHz Marvell CPU with page buffer
- 16-bit color capacitive touchscreen can display 320-by-240-resolution video at 15 -30 frames per second
- Google Books can be downloaded and it’s compatible with other bookstores that support Adobe DRM ( EPUB, PDF, HTML, and TXT formats)
- Other supported files: JPEG, GIF, and BMP graphics, MP3 audio, and MP4, 3GP, and FLV video
- Highlight, record comments in your own voice, or add hyperlinks. A marker will remind you or tell any other reader that more information can be found
- Android Apps: web browser, calculator, mail, Â gallery, and a music player
- 2GB of internal memory
- 2GB stock expandable to 32GB
- WiFi
- Microphone, 3.5mm jack, mini-usb
The bad new is no Android Market to be found here nor is there a partner store, though plans are to join with Borders this Spring or Summer. Â Still, if Alex intrigues you, it’s available for purchase at Spring Design for $399.00 in black or white. You can read a full review over at PC World.
[Source Cnet, PCWorld, Spring Design]
