ASUS was quiet at CES and now announcing that they are coming out with two e-readers a 6 inch (DR-570) 9 inch (DR-950).  Both will be coming out later in the year with the DR-950 coming out sooner.

DR-570 features:

• 6-inch color touch screen

• WiFi or  3G connectivity

• 122 hours battery life on a charge

• 0.03 second page turns (23 times faster than the Amazon Kindle)

• text-to-speech (Svox engine supporting 26 languages)

• supports ePub, PDF, txt, MP3, MP4, and AVI content formats

• audio/video/Flash player

• potentially online video streaming support via Amazon video on demand, 3D gaming and navigation

DR-950 featues:

• 9 inch color touch screen (rumored to use the SiPix color e-paper technology)

• 1,024 x 768 pixel resolution pushing 16-levels of gray

• text-to-screen (Svox engine supporting 26 languages)

• web browser (landscape or portrait modes)

• virtual keyboard

• accepts handwriting input

• supported formats include PDF, TXT, Audible, MP3, and unprotected ePub

Will ASUS be the first to provide a 6-inch color touch screen e-reader?  Let us see which vendor will make their new year’s resolution promise on color.