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Here’s a cell phone with a fold-out display screen that disappears when not in use. Readius is the world’s first phone designed specifically to allow easier reading of news, blogs or email. Philips has a 25 per cent stake in the company. “You get the large display of e-reading, the super battery life of e-reading, and the high-end connectivity ... and the form factor and weight of a mobile phone,” Karl McGoldrick, chief executive of the venture capital-funded firm said. “We are taking e-reading and bringing it to the mobile phone.” Two years in the making, the phone will be licensed to go head-to-head with the iPhone and Amazon’s ebook reader, the Kindle.
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He would not say how much the Readius would cost, but said it would be comparable to a high-end mobile phone.
Like Amazon's Kindle, the Readius has a so-called electronic paper screen, which displays black-and-white text and images that look almost like they have been printed on paper.
The device -- which will also just make phone calls -- connects to the Internet using the third-generation mobile phone networks with high data speeds.
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