LG To Start Mass Production Of 9.7-Inch Color, 19-Inch Flexible E-Papers By End Of 2010

WWWery.com: "An SEC filing by LG revealed its plans to launch 9.7-inch color, 19-inch flexible e-papers at least by Q1 2011. The company said that it will start the mass production of the e-papers by the end of 2010. While a color-screen e-reader is fancy, it’s not a necessity that can replace the current generation e-readers like Amazon’s Kindle. But the e-papers are something to lookout for."

LG Producing New Flexible Electronic Paper

The New York Observer: "What if you could fold up your Kindle and stick it in a coat pocket like you do with a newspaper? How cool would that be? We're about to find out, because LG has announced it will soon produce something that may let you do just that." Note: LG supplies the screens for the iPad and Kindle DX. E-Ink is also at work along the same lines.

LG Says Android Optimus Tablet To Be Better Than iPad

NYTimes.com:

LG played the internet like a fiddle today when its VP of marketing, Chang Ma, told the Wall Street Journal that its upcoming Android Optimus tablet “will be better than the iPad."

Clearly, this man is a marketing genius. What better way is there to get the word out about its device — which we initially caught word of in early July — than saying it’ll be better than a highly successful Apple product.

Surely none of the other hardware manufacturers preparing Android tablets — which at this point includes Asus, Acer, Dell, and many others — actually think their devices stand a chance against the iPad. LG, through its complex oratory jiujitsu, has declared itself the next king of tablets — despite the fact that we know practically nothing about the Optimus tablet. ...

Inbound from South Korea - LG and iRiver Partner on an eReader for the American Market

The American version of the iRiver "Story" will supposedly be on sale in about a year. The current Story - distributed in Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, China and Russia - is a fairly robust device with a price just under $300. The dedicated eReader can handle all essential eBook formats, runs Linux (despite some blog posts and press reports to the contrary), and features a 6 inch E-ink screen. It will be interesting to see what design changes happen, since iRiver and LG must realize they'll have to up the specs (and lower the price) considerably in order to even have a chance against Kindle, Nook etc. The ghost of iRex is watching. Read more in the Wall Street Journal's "Digits" blog. Note that the Journal gets the Story's operating system wrong, claiming it runs Windows. It doesn't.