We will know in the next couple of months if txtr is Europe’s answer to the Kindle. Gigaom.com posted an article about the company and their upcoming product on December 11th.

Here is a clip: “txtr, a Berlin-based startup, is building an e-reader that it hopes will be Europe’s answer to the Amazon Kindle. Christophe Maire, CEO of the company, sat down with me in Paris earlier this week and gave me the details. He is one of the co-founders of gate5, a German navigation/mapping service that was acquired by Nokia in 2006. While Maire went to work for the Finnish phone giant, his co-founders started txtr, and Maire only just joined as the CEO.

txtr, expected to become available in the first half of 2010, has the same sized e-ink display as the smaller Kindle. By eliminating the keyboard, and making some design adjustments, the company has given the txtr device a smaller footprint. It’s based on an ARM CPU, can handle a microSD card, and has both USB and Wi-Fi service.”