Unveiled as a “Prototype” two weeks ago during the e-Book Expo Tokyo, Panasonic new E-book reader is now official! Behold the Raboo UT-PB1!
Schedule to be launched August 10 in Japan at around 34,800 Yen, the Raboo is comes with a 7” 1024×600 color touchscreen, a Dual Core CPU (No details on the exact Chipset/CPU), comes with 8GB of internal memory with only 4.5GB available to users, Wi-Fi BGN, Bluetooth, a 1.3Mpix Camera and microSDHC Support.

While the Raboo is running Android you will not have access to Google OS directly and will be stuck with Panasonic UI and limited to read XMDF ebboks as well as access to Rakuten E-Book Store but will be also capable to access to some contents available on your Viera TV or directly on your microSDHC Card like H.264, MPEG-4 or WMV movies/videos in Full HD. The Raboo (Rakuten Book) is also compatible with AAC, MP3 and WMA files.

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