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Shenzhen EB710 e-Reader comes with a full color screen and that could make all of the difference when choosing between all of the e-reader range. If only this one had a price and was available outside of China.

The Shenzen EB710 e-Reader specs:

a 7.0 inch TFT display (16:9 Resolution: 800 x 480), built-in Li polymer (2100mAH) battery, touch key and Circumgyrate five-favor key, MP3/WMA/APE/FLAC/AAC music, JPEG/BMP/PNG/GIF image file format, RM/RMVB/AVI/FLV/3GP/H.263/H.264 movie, ASCII/UNICODE TXT/DOC/PDB/HTML/PDF/FB2 text formats. It also features ID3 V1 Tab, ID3 V2 2.0, ID3 V2 3.0, ID3 V2 4.0 tag, high quality, general quality for recording, FM Radio (optional), support Calendar, G-sensor and TTS. Also equipped USB2.0 port.

Sadly, there is no prices or availability info yet.

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The iPad was just released less than a week ago and already there is speculation about Apple’s next iPad. According to a senior analyst at Digitimes Research, Apple is in the process of developing a smaller iPad, which would be released in early 2011.

The new, smaller Apple iPad would allegedly be anywhere from five to seven inches and sell for about $300 or $400. The analyst based his prediction on information from “competent sources.”

The small iPad would be aimed at users who mainly would want to focus on reading and less on text input, meaning that this smaller iPad would basically be an e-reader with all the benefits of an iPad. The analyst also said that the HP Slate will not be any competition to the iPad because of its bad battery life.

I personally am doubtful of the idea of a smaller iPad because I fail to see the point of it. What could it offer that a regular iPad does not? Time will tell if the market is ready for such a device.

Amazon’s Kindle e-reader and Apple’s iPad are technically going to be competitors, but this hasn’t stopped Amazon from capitalizing off of the iPad by introducing a Kindle app. The app will offer more than 450,000 Kindle books and use Amazon’s Whispersync technology to synchronize the last page read with other compatible devices, such as an iPhone or a Kindle.

The app has been customized to the size and feel of the iPad and lets users customize the background color and font size, according to Amazon. The last page isn’t the only thing synced: bookmarks, notes, highlights, and annotations are also synced.

Amazon’s Kindle app will have a competitor in the form of a Barnes & Noble e-reader app. Both Amazon and Barnes & Noble make products whose sales could decline when the iPad is released.

In its announcement about the Kindle app, Amazon implied that the app would be available for tablet computers other than the iPad as well. It’s unclear right now what other tablets will get special Kindle apps.

Apple’s upcoming device, the iPad, has long been seen as a competitor to Amazon’s Kindle. Not only may the iPad bring about the end of the Kindle, but it may help Apple cash in on a market that the Kindle was never able to: education.

Of course, Apple does sell many products on the education market. But the iPad may be especially convenient for students because of its small size, e-reader capabilities, and versatility. The Kindle was tested at several major universities and just seemed to lack something and was never a good fit for students.

Recent estimates speculate that Apple may be shipping as many as 190,000 pre-ordered iPads to customers in the first week of the iPad’s release (this is just a guess, though, as no official numbers have been released). Perhaps in a hope of catering to the education market, Apple has lowered the price of the iPad by $20 when ten or more of the devices are ordered for educational use.

A recent news story about Sony published in the Wall Street Journal has caused a lot of speculation about Sony’s plans for mobile devices. Though Sony is not officially confirming anything, it is thought to be developing products and services to compete with Apple.

Sony is reportedly ready to launch an online media platform called “Sony Online Services” that is intended to compete with iTunes. It is also releasing a mobile phone with the Android operating system soon. The phone is going to be called Xperia X10. Currently, Sony makes an e-reader that is a competitor to Amazon’s Kindle.

If Sony is intending to directly compete with Apple, it may want to prepare itself for potential lawsuits. Apple is currently engaged in a lawsuit against HTC for patent infringement relating to the iPhone, which many people are interpreting as an indirect against Google.