WePad & WeMagazine Ecosystem for publishers
March 20, 2010

You may have noticed we like covering iPad Alternatives here at Netbook News and we have uncovered a little beauty called the WePad. It is just another tablet but lets take a look at what it has to offer, its a little bigger at 11.6 inches with a 1366 x 768 resolution. It sports an Intel Atom N450 processor and is going to roll out with a functioning ecosystem for publishers to distribute their newspapers and magazines. Its nice to see tablet manufactures get it, tablets have been around for year, but they achieved little success because its a content consumption device and for that to take off, it needs an ecosystem with content!
Behind the WePad an entire ecosystem is started in service, and warranty support for hardware, software platform WeMagazine for the publication and reading of paid content and WeFind for context-sensitive and searchable integration of online content.
Not only will you have access to the WePad App Store but because its running Android you’ll also have access to the Android Market. Brad from Liliputing pointed out that it is most likely the “first non-smartphone devices I’m aware of that’s supposed to have access to the Android Market out of the box”
I have to say this little Berlin startup is coming to the table with what appears to be an application killer or the holy grail of publishing.
Here is a link to the PDF from Neofonie about the WePad
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Engadget got the inside scoop from a reliable source and has the pictures to back it up. The Courier when closed isn’t much bigger then 5 x 7 photo is just over a pound and based on Tegra 2. Engadget is speculating that it is going to be running Windows CE 6 and appears to have a pen based interface that is centered around writing and drawing with integrated hand writing recognition.
The Courier is also launching with an ecosystem, a corresponding web site that allows access to everything entered into the device in a blog-like format complete with comments. It is also sporting a built in camera a jack from your head phones and will also act as an e-book reader that will also have its own ecosystem. There is no word on who is colaborating on these ecosystems or how much this beauty is going to cost, but we are expecting around Q3/Q4.
Engadget has a whole series of interface photos, please click here to check them out.













