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Tuesday November 3, 2009
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 While we have nothing against the Foxit eSlick e-reader (and I really like the company's PDF reader software) the eSlick has flown somewhat underneath our radar.
In part, that's because Foxit seems to be employing an unusual strategy of shipping the eSlick in rounds of products; for example, the eighth round of eSlicks should be shipping now, while the company is accepting orders for the ninth round, which will ship near the end of November.
On Wednesday, however, Foxit announced the second version of the eSlick's firmware, with support for the ePub and eReader formats as well as the previously supported PDF and text formats. Images are now viewable in GIF,
EMP, JPEG, and PNG formats, and the firmware update even installed a touch keyboard, so that users can unlock password-protected files.
It sounds like the current round of preorders will ship with the new firmware; otherwise, existing customers can download the version 2.0 firmware at the company's Web site.
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November 4, 2009 10:13 AM
It doesn't add a "touch" keyboard as there is no touch layer on the reader. it just installs a keyboard that can be brought up via the menu so that you can enter passwords via the big control button.
Most of the other Netronix EB-600 clones already had this for dictionary look-up.
November 5, 2009 6:54 PM
This is being reported at different tech sites as being released. Hasn't been released as of 11-05/09 7:00 pm