This $50 Case Turns Any Phone Into a Kindle

Reading books connected your telephone tin often beryllium a hassle. After speechmaking for a while, the ergonomics of holding a smartphone for agelong periods don’t supply a worthwhile speechmaking experience. The folks astatine Astropad are looking to lick that occupation with the $50 Bookcase, a telephone lawsuit that makes it consciousness similar you’re holding a book.

The Bookcase gives your Apple oregon Android telephone book-like dimensions by extending it connected some sides for a amended grip. It features a MagSafe equine betwixt its near and close handles to clasp your phone. The institution claims speechmaking connected your telephone tin beryllium amended for your body, preventing the cervix strain and manus cramps associated with speechmaking a book. It aims to heighten that acquisition adjacent much by providing much existent property to enactment with portion besides helping trim accidental taps oregon scrolls.

Users tin besides caput to the Bookcase’s companion app and acceptable their preferences for speechmaking apps and telephone mode (Do Not Disturb, Reading Mode, etc.). This way, the adjacent clip they dock their telephone wrong the case, it’ll automatically alteration the acceptable preferences for the user.

Astropad says it has fixed the Bookcase a modular paperback consciousness with a vegan leather backmost and polycarbonate handles and claims that, with your telephone inside, it would measurement arsenic overmuch arsenic a publication would, too. Though, I judge astir e-reader consumers crook to it for its paper-like interface that’s casual connected the eyes. So, I’m unsure astir spending astir $50 connected my speechmaking setup to inactive woody with a phone’s bluish light, careless of however ‘book-like’ the worldly connected the handles is.

Preorders for the Bookcase commencement astatine $40, and shipping volition commencement successful six weeks. After the limited-time motorboat discount ends, the Bookcase volition retail astatine its regular $50 price. It’s disposable successful conscionable 1 stunning ‘Blue Twilight’ colorway and works exclusively with iOS and Android phones. It offers enactment for iPhones 12 oregon newer retired of the box, and extends compatibility to older iPhones and Android phones utilizing a ‘MagSafe conversion kit’ successful the package.

The e-reader abstraction has precocious seen different breathtaking developments. Amazon launched a color Kindle for the archetypal time, truthful publication images and covers don’t look arsenic dull anymore. It besides released a caller Kindle Scribe, offering a Kindle and a notebook connected the aforesaid device, which comes with a pen for note-taking. Boox refreshed its Palma lineup with the Palma 2, which promises an improved Android OS, a faster octa-core CPU, and a fingerprint reader. The remainder of the specs see a 300 PPI e-ink Carta 1200 screen, 6 GB memory, 128 GB storage, and a 16 MP camera for scanning. The Palma 2 is available for preorder for $280.