It uses the latest touchscreen technology for ease of operation and as a 'multimedia viewer', NewsPAD is powerful enough to render dynamically full motion video, still colour images, 'infographics' and animated information sequences, as well as conventional text and graphics. Providing readers with essentially a customisable multimedia newspaper with approximately the same portability as its traditional counterpart, NewsPAD also has added functionality, with a speaker and provision for a microphone and small colour video camera. Electronic 'newspapers' have the advantage of allowing readers to choose only stories in areas that interest them, making the idea very popular and now that NewsPAD has shown the technological and economic feasibility, the market potential should be massive. They are also cost-effective, eliminating waste involved in printing and distribution and, by saving paper, are seen as a 'green' solution. Technical perspective NewsPAD is approximately A4-sized.
Sound is in stereo at CD quality.
It has fully static operation for low power consumption, further reduced by a number of power management modes.