Bi Sheng 600TW really is bi – features eReader and Smartphone

The Bi Sheng 600TW E-Ink Smartphone

As the blogger in us constantly feels the need to boil down products to manageable consumption for readers, let’s just call this one a “Kindle Phone.”

In truth, the Bi Sheng 600TW is a 6-inch E-Ink screened smartphone with WiFi, Bluetooth and GSM/GPRS/EDGE 3G. Instead of a QWERTY keyboard it has a numeric one with additional selection controls to help you navigate the eReader menu options. It uses a lithium-ion 3000mAh battery which is rate for 60,000 pageturns according to Bi Sheng although phone use will diminish the battery life by 2 to 3 times (and if you have an equation where you can figure out pageturn to time ratios we’d love to hear it).

The 600TW will support TXT, DOC, XLS, PPT, HTML, PDF and CHM eBook formats (ePub seems to be absent). It measures 4.7 x 7.4 x 0.38 inches and costs 2880 yuan ($422 U.S.). More information about it can be found on their website — Gorld.com — and with the help of Google translation.

Source: The Digital Reader