An anonymous tipster send us in this image of an e-reader running Android OS and explained that it came from a company that has never been in the tablet/e-reader business. Interesting…
I suspect this is some sort of music device for composers/performers because of all the musical notes on the top of the screen and some things we saw in the background of the image. Any guesses as to what this could be?
My suspicion is that someone like Yamaha is creating a control system for their MIDI devices, allowing folks to make music away from the PC.
“An anonymous tipster” + “from a company that” + Blurry image = WHY is this posted as legitimate?
I’m confused and this is a bit comical!
Is it vapor ware?
Or maybe the Crunch Pad?
Oh wait . . . I already said vapor ware . . .
It’s the Aqcess QBE!
http://www.dealtime.com/xPF-Aqcess-Qbe-Original-PCTS-2000-0000
You don’t think that’s just a media player app? Not that there isn’t room for an android music/sample controller, but I don’t know about leaping to that assumption. And daamn that is a blurry picture for a “legit” leak.
A Creative Labs Zii MediaBook prototype?
Looks like you beat Engadget to the puch on [Unconfirmed Electronic Device]. Well done!
Quality post, Biggs. Quality.
Your bio mentions you have worked for The New York Times, Laptop, Men’s Health, Linux Journal, Popular Science, have authored a couple of books…..yet you post this?
how can you even make out it is an e-reader let alone its running Android OS? Music device, Yamaha a big leap from this blurred picture… you are just wasting our time Biggs and yours too… if you haven’t got anything concrete to say… I suggest take a day off…
I am still coming back to this post waiting for it to be deleted or something did someone hack Techcruch, its almost like a prank post. – Freaking me out.
FFS, really? Can I send you a blurry picture of a steaming pile of poo and say it’s running Linux and made by a company who’s never — until now! — been in the waste management business?
This blog is getting f-ing ridiculous. I’m glad no one pretends like you’re actual journalists.
Look at the display on a Kindle and compare it to your fuzzy photo. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see the difference. The Kindle uses electricity to change from one page display to the next but does not use electricity to keep the page information displayed for extended periods of time.
Now look at the fuzzy photo you included. Does this device look like it would serve the same purpose as a reader? A back lit color display that uses Android? Maybe its a MP3 player or a tablet PC that can display E-books, but its not a “reader” that is certain.
The ‘music notes’ you mentioned look like theyre just motion blurs from the photo (and there are in fact 5 dots instead). Blurs on the icons look the same…
I’ve got a bridge for sale…
This isn’t the Bigfoot of ereader shots. If you look at Bigfoot shots, at least *they* have sense enough to build in a sense of scale to the image. From what’s posted here, there’s no way to tell conclusively if it’s the size of a Kindle or the size of a Nokia dumbphone.
If I had to guess, I’d say it’s some kind of smartphone, rather than an ereader. That pinkish semicircle in the upper right appears to be a fingertip.