Spring Designs has introduced Alex, the 1st e-book based totally on the Google Android carrying full reading capacities as well as twin screen interaction technology, the Duet Navigator. The Alex mixes the facility to read on a monochrome EPD screen while showing the dynamic hyperlinked info on the secondary screen in full color.

The Spring Design device is known as Alex and like the Barnes & Noble eReader; it features a dual-screen. The top portion of the screen is a 6″ E-Ink EPD display and the lower display is a 3.5” color LCD. This appears to be the favored work around for exploiting the readability and energy saving features of E-Ink, while also offering support for color graphics and multimedia.

Spring Design has patented what it calls Duet Navigator dual-screen technology, which permits hyper-linked content and photographs to show-up in the lower screen, while text shows up on the EPD. Spring Design asserts users can toggle where info appears in order to save battery life-span.

 The device has both Wi-Fi and it support for mobile networks like 3G, EVDO and GSM ( which makes it sound like it might be customize for multiple carriers ) and has an SD slot for more storage options and for viewing other media. There is also a headphone jack, which emphasizes the multimedia nature of this kind of device.

There is not any word on price or partnerships but Spring Design asserts they're working with a considerable number of content suppliers and plan to release it by the end of the year.