There are various electronic devices that nowadays are popular in the market. One of them is an e-book. This electronic gadget is one whose design is fit to be used on reading digital books or periodicals; it uses the ‘e-ink’ technology in displaying the contents of a digital reading material to the readers.

The e-book provides users with the advantages of portability, readability of the screens even in bright sunlight and a long battery life. Another digital device, called the Personal Digital Assistant or PDA, may be capable of displaying texts on screen like an e-book but it is not equipped with the electronic ink display.

As the largest electronic device manufacturer, Samsung Electronics is not to be left behind in producing such amazing e-books. This multinational company has recently announced their latest E-book Family. This line of e-books models from Samsung includes two models (E6 and E61)with 6-inch screens while the other member of the family is designed with a 9.6-inch screen(E101).

Between E6 and E61, the latter model has been receiving a rather cold reception from the public particularly due to two main reasons. One is that its appearance is mostly similar with that of the Amazon Kindle. Its weight is also not far from that of the Kindle’s. Second is that its QWERTY keyboard does not provide an interesting appeal , thus is speculated as a bad idea on the e-book’s structure. But some reviewers are still not resting their case until the E61 has been finally released on the speculated date on April 2010 with a hypothesized price of roughly 500 US dollars.

Aside from the similar size of the screens, the features which make the E61 alike with its brother the E6 are:

• resolution of 600 x 800 pixels
• two Gigabytes of onboard memory that may be expanded via a microSD
• WiFi capable
• supports for e-book formats like epub PDF and plain text
• playback audio
• user-accessible battery pack that permits to be changed by the user even without sending the model support ( a feature that is not included in its supposed replica, the Kindle)