Good it’s about time, Open Pattern! After blank the Feb boat date, the company is finally ready for you to whip out the cosmetic and pre-order the Alex — which dual- screen, Android-based ereader you favourite so much during CES. Whilst we can shell out a $399 today, you’ll still have to waitfor until mid-April for the mailman to dump off a package. We’d like to contend the wait stops there, though we’ve additionally schooled which early buyers won’t have entrance to a promised Borders eBook store until June. When we chatted with Spring Pattern CEO Priscilla Lu last week she confirmed that Borders will officially launch the store in the “June time frame,” that will be around the very same time which a 3G version of the Alex will be ready to hit the marketplace — during least there’s access to Google Books and an micro-SD card container for sideloading in the meantime. With so most coming down a dart it may be worth watchful a bit more time for this asingle, though the own Alex arrived just final night so no makeadifference what it’d behoove we to wait a few days for the review before you strike a source couple to pre-order.

Update: Well, this is odd. Even yet this headlines strike a wires currently, the shop page on Open Design’s website is really non-functional right now. Instead, you’ll see the summary to check behind soon. We’ll keep doing just that until you see signs of life… or listento otherwise.

Refurbish 2: And we’re back…the pre-order page is eventually up!
Open Design Alex unboxing