[PF4Mobile]

Originally Posted by ProDigit

Ok,
so the pessimist says to the optimist his glass is half empty.

Your optimist below changed the glass my friend. Why don't you keep the original item list and you change the topic?

Here's my view:
1- E-ink (no LCD, TFT, or plasma (or CRT) to carry around; e-ink is only getting smaller and lighter (screen is about 0.4mm thick soon))

AGAIN, is it the only one? Here you are leaving me the impression that you work for them.
Is this the ONLY device with this feature? Do I have to pay 500$ for this?
Forget about the B$ "trade your old...whatever"

2- Color (no other e-ink color device out there)

For now this is the only valid point. But this is not going to last. Let' not forget about the structure of the reading material. This is useful for people who "look" at something bigger than TEXT. In this case the eye strain is diminished.

3- Price lower over time (There is currently no similar device out there that provides color e-ink, thus color e-ink can be priced at whatever price the manufacturer wants; the right of monopoly. I don't see it as a thumbs down to know the price is only going to drop over time?).

Do not tell me that they could charge 1000$ but they are charitable souls and out of mercy they charged just 500$
They charged what they could not what they wanted. You owe yourself at least this much objectivity.

4- I got some gadget girlfriends who would not mind instant loving me for a jetbook Color! JBC brings you where no mn has gone before!

I recommend Viagra. It is cheaper I believe and it has the same effect.

5- Duh! E-ink is the coolest! No keyboard is the coolest!

6- Not all readers read PDF or have SD cards. Kindle DX does not have an SD card reader.
7- Most readers can just display books or show pictures. This one can play games, translation, calculator, audio, and in the future browser, and perhaps TTS (just missing an internal speaker).

This two show either ignorance or blindness.
Both are a blessing in a world where the evil is all over the place.

PS: does it have a radio?

8- An Absolute need, that is not provided by most tablets and netbooks (due to too low resolution).
9- Without investors,we'd still be developing the first computer,and live in the stone age
10- The only useless item is this jetbook.

Now if you want to discuss this seriously and to help the sales we can continue but otherwise it is a waste of time and I am going to restrain myself from making any more comments about this device. I for one I understand where the device is. Other than having color and some software for the educational sector the device has NO SPECIAL merits.
The best they can do is to try to sell it in schools where they have an edge.

As we speak the device is dead for reading scientific papers and even the most basic workflow can not be followed using this device.
Sure you can read comics, look at pictuers and so on. The performance is worse than of any tablet, the price is bigger than for any tablet and even in this respect the functionality is far from that of a tablet. Again, the eink advantage becomes a disadvantage when it comes to color image rendering.

The above might change after March 2012 or April 2012. Let's not forget that the entire world might disappear in 2012.