![]() The Hanvon C18 news comes just six weeks after Kyobo's eReader was unveiled and one day after the Bambook Sunflower announcement. The Hanvon C18 has a more streamlined design than other mirasol e-ereaders. Its operating system, like that of Kyobo's eReader and Bambook's Sunflower, is a custom interface on top of a Google Android (version 2.3) core. The C18 too sports a 5.7-inch “XGA” format, touchscreen mirasol display and runs on a 1.0 GHz Snapdragon (S2, single-core) processor from Qualcomm. Other than its thinner, lighter profile - it is 10 mm thin and 300 grams in weight - the Hanvon C18's hardware closely mirrors that of the two previously announced mirasol e-readers, the Kyobo eReader from South Korea's Kyobo Book Centre and the Bambook Sunflower from China's Shanda Networking Co. Hanvon is the third company in two months to incorporate mirasol displays into an e-reader device. Besides the device's relative slimness, San Diego-based Qualcomm is touting the Hanvon C18 because it sees it as evidence of momentum for mirasol, a technology the company has been refining for several years. 10 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) keynote presentation. ![]() ![]() Qualcomm Chief Executive Paul Jacobs made the announcement during his Jan.
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