05-28-2013, 01:34 PM | #76 | |
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First e-readers are expected to come out next year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhZ9aefdNUU http://www.plasticlogic.com/media-centre/videos/ http://www.plasticlogic.com/technology/ Last edited by markom; 05-28-2013 at 01:42 PM. |
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05-28-2013, 01:36 PM | #77 | |
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05-28-2013, 03:45 PM | #78 |
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Sony has a done a wonderful job indeed.
Their firmware looks good (with tab support etc) and they have made an excellent decision by implementing two touch screens - IR and Wacom. I was hoping for it to have a decent price, but looking at all the excellent features i am starting to think that the device will be costly. It cannot be too costly because the primary consumers would be students. It will have some premium till other manufacturers enter the fray |
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If this is the business model, the bulk price to these customers may be much lower than the street price to consumers, these being a niche market with negligible impact on overall sales. Unless consumers show that this is not the case, which I don't think can happen. Honestly, I can't see this type of device as having much appeal to the average consumer. In this scenario, if and when competitors will emerge they will tend to target the "big" market (institutions/companies) and not the "small" one (consumers). |
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05-28-2013, 11:54 PM | #80 |
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Would you really rather use this than an iPad? By the time it comes out, the new, lighter iPad will be available, and it has a few more uses than reading pdf's and annotating them. This thing apparently has no color, is ungainly, and has 0 apps (unless it sort of runs Android). And who wants a huge 13" screen? We'll see, but it doesn't make sense to me.
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05-29-2013, 01:26 AM | #82 | |
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05-29-2013, 10:33 AM | #83 |
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Lawyers,clerks,judges. Imagine how much less the brief case will weight.
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05-29-2013, 10:43 AM | #84 |
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05-29-2013, 09:19 PM | #85 |
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Quite excited about this. I do not believe the market for this device is small: think of anyone doing a lot of paperwork. This slate would save them thousands of copies per year.
Either way: this thread lists a few things an academic audience would be hoping for. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=214190 |
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05-31-2013, 05:54 AM | #87 |
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Deeper look at the new Sony 13.3 inch e-Reader (by goodereader.com)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZSGZkEEVfQ click-the-picture I haven't noticed any zooming(cropping) capability there as yet. Zooming part of the page by two-points or at least a landscape mode are essential IMHO even on 13.3". Last edited by markom; 05-31-2013 at 07:20 AM. |
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Thanks markom for the link to the very informative video.
So, this ereader definitely has useful tab-based multiple-document features, and good annotation tools too. A first Yes! A second Yes! for the large screen... I personally could easily live with something that gives me a full, unscaled rendition of and A4/Letter page; even if zooming is not available at all. After all, paper documents don't allow zooming and we use them all the time without complaining :-) Refresh time seems acceptably fast. Provided that the device does not introduce additional waiting time to actually prepare the new page to be shown on the screen when you jump from one tab to another, even pretty frequent tab changes should be reasonably comfortable. Finally, a third Yes! for the (supposed) ruggedness coming from having a flexible backplane. This Sony device seems able to live in a bag or knapsack without breaking (which is essential for a "workhorse" product that you bring with you everywhere... at least this is how I would use the thing). Now I hope very strongly that: (i) it actually goes on sale and (ii) if it does, the price won't be too high. (It would be surprising if tablets, that many expected to be the killers of electrophoretic devices, should instead contribute to the development of rugged large-screen devices, after all these years of useless waiting!) |
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You'll find the information by the director of Eink that Sony is planning to bring the Mobius Reader to market in the 2nd half of the year in this video:
http://youtu.be/94Ifhuc2bbQ |
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