Hands-on pics of Spring Design's Alex e-reader appear

Spring Design's Alex e-reader features a color lower touch screen with a 6-inch electronic paper display.

(Credit: Maximum PC)

Spring Design announced its Alex e-book reader just a day before Barnes & Noble introduced its Nook device, but until now, the Google Android-based device hasn't been seen in public.

That's no longer the case.

The folks at Maximum PC have taken photos of the dual-screen, 6-inch electronic-paper-display gadget in the flesh, and it's just as strangely proportioned as the original mockup promised.

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