Samsung is get­ting into the e-book reader band­wagon with its Papyrus. There isn’t that much tech­ni­cal details avail­able for the Papyrus but there are some:

• An A5-sized reader, which means that it is 8.25 x 5.75″. Thickness will prob­a­bly be less than 1″. Just a guess.
• EPD (elec­tronic paper dis­play) has touch capa­bil­ity (you’ll need to use the sty­lus that’s included)
• 512MB of inter­nal mem­ory with no mem­ory card option
• No WiFi and no cel­lu­lar con­nec­tion either

No WiFi? OK, then you’d expect it to have some WWAN con­nec­tion. But nope. Not on the Papyrus. And that will doom the Papyrus unfortunately.

I would think that com­pa­nies would have learned a good les­son from Amazon’s Kindle by now. You most impor­tant part about a suc­cess­ful e-book reader is that it needs to be supremely easy to load con­tent onto it. Samsung’s Papyrus, for now, seems to have already failed. The tar­get price will be under US$300 accord­ing to sources. The Papyrus is avail­able in Europe and will be launched in Korea in June. US? Maybe.

Source: Pocket-lint, TechRader, Engadget