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- Podcast: Can Apple make the tablet PC cool?
- Make?The tablet PC is ALREADY cool!They can certainly make it expensive.Sure, if it does appear it'll be Apple cool and a good segment of the Apple faithful will probably buy it and turn it into another quasi-religeous icon. It's high price and limited usefulness, however, will keep most people...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- Apple tablet gets manufacturing partner
- If it's LED backlit LCD, they're going to run into problems...If it's LED backlit LCD, they're going to run into problems. The entire point of eInk is that it's the closest thing we have to "digital paper." It's easy on the eyes, which makes for easy reading. ...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- Image Gallery: A walk around the Astak EZReader Pocket PRO 5 inch
- Amazon and Sony have the most popular ebook readers available today, but there are other very competitive devices available too. Astak's latest device is the EZReader Pocket PRO 5 inch unit that supports Adobe Reader Digital Edition content and much more. You can enjoy book content, music files, audio books,...
- Image galleries 2009-09-07
- Image Gallery: First look at the Sony Reader Touch Edition PRS-600
- Sony recently announced a couple new Reader eink electronic books, the Sony Reader Pocket Edition and Touch Edition that are both now available. The Daily Edition is coming in a couple of months and will be a bit larger with wireless capability. The Touch Edition is the same size as...
- Image galleries 2009-09-03
- Cut. Scan. Read.
- Cut. Scan. Read.i dunno man.there's something about destroying books that makes me queasy. i know you're not destroying the information... but it's a visceral response, i guess.My biggest issueRight now when I fly, or when the power goes out, I have a book in my lap, reading comfortably by natural...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-08
- (Images: The Morph concept phone)
- (Images: The Morph concept phone)OLED or eInk, for sure...OLED or eInk, for sure. Some of those paper-thin displays are really cool.Find me ONE nokia phone which lasts >1 yr.Over the past several years I've run through 3 Nokia phones, from low to high end.. the whole range. In every...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-25
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- Amazon's Kindle for PC app available; It's a handy download
- Open formatYou say the Kindle is less open than the Sony or B&N readers. Are you saying that a Sony book can be read on the Nook? Or that a Nook book can be read on a Sony reader? I think you're pretty well mistaken on...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- Microsoft Courier interface functionality leaked
- A Kindle killer?Although I can see a variety of interesting uses for a device like this, it would seem to be an interesting alternative for the expensive b/w ebook readers. While it may not have the readability and low power consumption of eInk displays, the addition of color, apps,...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Make room for another e-reader as Creative shows off prototype
- Market is ripeFor Chinese factories to crank out more hardware and suck more dollars out of the middle class.Clue in America.Transition product I do believe that e-book readers are largely a transition product which will eventually be made more or less obsolete by advances in netbook/smartbook etc. technologies. Multiple devices...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- B&N Nook ebook reader revolutionizes the ebook world with sharing between friends and more
- reading screen size You forgot to mention that the actual reading window size is 6" diagnol.here is another link with lots of detail (even this doesn't mention the 6"):http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/features/techspecs/RE: B&N Nook ebook reader revolutionizes the ebook world with sharing between friends and moreSame display size as seen on the Sony...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- HP's DreamScreen faces tough competition for holiday spending
- DOAWhen I saw the YouTube video of this I thought they had accidentally linked to a 3 year old promotional video of a digital picture frame. What an outdated concept this thing is. No Internet browsing no touchscreen? A $99 iPod Touch does more than this thing.I feel bad for...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- Inching closer to the perfect e-reader for students
- Give it away, just like Cell PhonesIf Sony,Amazon,Plastic Logic, IREX, etc... want people to start reading content on eReader devices, they need to start giving them away for free... with a service contract, much like the cellphone industry.Most people already understand these types of contracts and will feel like they...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-26
- SONY goes "Open Kimono" with sexy new e-Readers
- Sound like checkmate, they have everything the Kindle does for less $$ $They even have better quality. I want to buy one right now although it has to have the books that I want.At the risk of sounding fanboy-ishI must ask. How does the 6" $299 Sony touch (but...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-25
- $299 Kindle: Great, now make it read PDF!
- $299 Kindle: Great, now make it read PDF!Great writeup, but... Much thanks, Jason, your usual great blogpost... but I really do not see the point of these readers... Like you, I have tons of books on pdf and chm(and thanks for the heads-up reminder on the IBM Redbooks, that had...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-08
- Are Amazon and Real one-upping Apple?
- Are Amazon and Real one-upping Apple?yeah but..."A lot of my readers this week would strongly disagree with that statement.[that people don't read any more]"... do your readers have any stats to back up their assertion? i bet Steve Jobs does..iTunes doesn't have DVD ripping ability because it's illegal... remember.....
- Discussion threads 2009-05-08
- Amazon's Kindle: With a $489 price tag, iPod Touch may be the better buy
- Amazon's Kindle: With a $489 price tag, iPod Touch may be the better buyIt's the eInk stupidWhy can't ZDNet bloggers grasp the concept of a glare free screen? An e-reader without eInk is not something you want to spend time reading for hours on end, especially for those with...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-06
- Live from New York: Amazon's Kindle press conference
- Live from New York: Amazon's Kindle press conferenceMessage has been deleted.RE: Live from New York: Amazon's Kindle press conferenceIf Amazon does roll out a textbook Kindle it will be a star. Just left a grad school program and I would not say the money you get back for used...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-06
- Samsung to launch Papyrus e-reader
- Samsung to launch Papyrus e-reader$300? Is it even using eInk? No sale! ntntRE: Samsung to launch Papyrus e-readerThe device is intended not just to be an e-reader, but a ?notetaker, world clock, diary, memo taker, calculator, and contacts? list, Pocket-lint says.In other words, a Palmpilot revisited.The same price too,...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-25
- Citizen Pain: Who Needs Another Electronic Reader?
- Citizen Pain: Who Needs Another Electronic Reader?Of course......if readers were standardized, it wouldn't matter which one you carried around with you, but then vendors couldn't play monopoly games.RE: Citizen Pain: Who Needs Another Electronic Reader?Why would a publisher want to limit themselves to one specific reader? If I was...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-02
- Apple should add books to the iTunes Store
- Apple should add books to the iTunes StoreApple sells AudiobooksSo Apple does sell books on iTunes, don't they?I wouldn't read a book on the iPhone.Hell, I won't even read a book anymore!!! LOLI'll stick with the paper versionsE-Books present several problems for me.I like to read and then pass the...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-09
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