did you want pearl? Now you have it, and with touch! - Page 3

kacir · 03-24-2012, 04:48 AM

Update. Now they claim that they will have goods in two days.

Quote:

Originally Posted by kacir

On this Czech page they claim that they will have the devices soon. Price is 4199CZK - Czech Crowns, that is about 170Eur.
http://www.ebook-ctecky.cz/pocketboo...622-cerny-p131

Edit: You have to mail them if you want to purchase. They do not seem to have an option to sell abroad. But I guess it will change quickly once they receive the first twenty or so emails from prospective customers ;-)

troll05 · 03-24-2012, 04:57 AM

Just ordered my 622, selling in Germany starts Monday 25 March via pocketbook.de for 159€

kacir · 03-24-2012, 05:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by troll05

Just ordered my 622, selling in Germany starts Monday 25 March via pocketbook.de for 159€

The above address leads to http://www.pocketbook-int.com/de
There is not a trace of PB622 on their shop page.

Billi · 03-24-2012, 06:08 AM

It's there under "Touch", the first device in the line if you choose "Produkte".

kacir · 03-24-2012, 06:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Billi

It's there under "Touch", the first device in the line if you choose "Produkte".

I see.
And how do I buy it from that page? Sorry, but I do not speak German

Billi · 03-24-2012, 07:27 AM

I think you can't, at least I didn't find it. As I've understood it from the German part of this forum they start selling at March 26th. I assume that Troll ordered directly from Forkosigan.

rkomar · 03-24-2012, 10:30 AM

The GUI looks totally different from that used in the past devices. Is the new one based on Android?

paola · 03-24-2012, 01:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by troll05

Just ordered my 622, selling in Germany starts Monday 25 March via pocketbook.de for 159€

looking forward to your detailed review

@kacir: I am travelling with a slow connection, now you have me on tenterhooks for days on those videos

kacir · 03-24-2012, 01:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by paola

@kacir: I am travelling with a slow connection, now you have me on tenterhooks for days on those videos

Those videos are under one minute each, some of them 15 seconds.
You can download video, if you write KISS to the youtube address. Like this:

Code:

the address is 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7wGHv-vWmw 
and you edit the url to 
www.KISSyoutube.com/watch?v=e7wGHv-vWmw

You have to have Java installed.

It looks like March the 26th really is the day when PB622 is put on the market.

troll05 · 03-24-2012, 04:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Billi

I think you can't, at least I didn't find it. As I've understood it from the German part of this forum they start selling at March 26th. I assume that Troll ordered directly from Forkosigan.

Assumption correct

pkbo · 03-24-2012, 09:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rkomar

The GUI looks totally different from that used in the past devices. Is the new one based on Android?

No, it is not based on Android. See here for more details

kacir · 03-25-2012, 09:49 AM

It seems that the price for PB622 in UK is £144.00 (which is 172Eur according to Google)
http://www.greenreader.co.uk/collect...cketbook-touch
Available for pre-orders. Delivery starts March 30.

skydive · 03-25-2012, 10:44 AM

When this device will be available for the US market? it look like it would have all the dream features for ereaders!

Quote:

Originally Posted by kacir

It seems that the price for PB622 in UK is £144.00 (which is 172Eur according to Google)
http://www.greenreader.co.uk/collect...cketbook-touch
Available for pre-orders. Delivery starts March 30.

kacir · 03-25-2012, 11:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by skydive

It look like it would have all the dream features for ereaders!

Yes, to me it looks like it has all the features user can desire.
Except perhaps for:

physical page-turning buttons on side (like Kindle has),
plastic lid for screen that would clip to the back (like PB360 and PB360+ has) and
sane mechanism for attaching cover, so you could avoid having cover with *UGLY* and highly impractical bands holding the device in. (that no reader to date has, except for Sony PRS-500, and partially Kindle). First prototypes of PocketBook 602 had small magnetic attachment points visible in four corners at the back side of device.

Disclaimer: I am not PocketBook representative, nor do I sell their devices. So the following is pure speculation and it has fair chance of being totally wrong.

Quote:

Originally Posted by skydive

When this device will be available for the US market?

When previous PB models were introduced they had significantly lower price in USA. This fact caused LOTS of heated criticism as being unfair to us - Europeans and especially to their "native" market - Ukraine and Russian Federation. Some people felt that non-USA customers were sponsoring PB models sold in USA, so that PB could remain competitive with Amazon. The situation was further aggravated by the fact that USA based resellers are strictly forbidden to sell to Europe and Ukraine and Russia and other regions where PocketBook has distributors [with higher prices]. I myself was complaining when I found out that PocketBook 360 PLUS was selling for *much* lower price in USA than its OLDER model PocketBook 360 was sold for here in EU. (if I remember correctly, it was something like 140USD for new model versus 250Eur for older model here) My complaints were also fuelled by fact that at that time PocketBook 360 PLUS wasn't available here at all. Possibly because they wanted to sell their remaining stock of older models.

So PocketBook might have decided to solve the situation by not selling to USA, instead of lowering prices here ;-)

Please notice, this is pure speculation.

paola · 03-25-2012, 12:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kacir

It seems that the price for PB622 in UK is £144.00 (which is 172Eur according to Google)
http://www.greenreader.co.uk/collect...cketbook-touch
Available for pre-orders. Delivery starts March 30.

kacir, I've exhausted all my karma, but really do not know how to thank you: I had checked the greenreader site a couple of days ago, and they did not even have the PB30+ for sale.

Can't downlaod the video with a kiss, either, lookslike it takes too long between my giving permission to the program to run and the thing actually running, but I should be able to fix that tomorrow - but just one question: you say that the touch has a cover "a la 360", which came as a total surprise to me as it was not in any of the videos I had seen: is this totally sure? I can't bring myself to buy a third reader for myself, but I think my husband would prefer it to a 9", especially if it has a rigid cover like the 360.

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03-24-2012, 04:57 AM	#32
troll05 Harmless idiot Posts: 3,411 Karma: 2154829 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Zuhause Device: PB622, Nexus7, Sony PRS 350, Tolino und nur noch wenig toter Baum:(	Just ordered my 622, selling in Germany starts Monday 25 March via pocketbook.de for 159€

03-24-2012, 06:08 AM	#34
Billi Wizard Posts: 3,388 Karma: 14190103 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Berlin Device: Cybook, iRex, PB, Onyx	It's there under "Touch", the first device in the line if you choose "Produkte".

03-24-2012, 07:27 AM	#36
Billi Wizard Posts: 3,388 Karma: 14190103 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Berlin Device: Cybook, iRex, PB, Onyx	I think you can't, at least I didn't find it. As I've understood it from the German part of this forum they start selling at March 26th. I assume that Troll ordered directly from Forkosigan.

03-24-2012, 10:30 AM	#37
rkomar Wizard Posts: 2,985 Karma: 18343081 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Sudbury, ON, Canada Device: PRS-505, PB 902, PRS-T1, PB 623, PB 840, PB 633	The GUI looks totally different from that used in the past devices. Is the new one based on Android?

03-25-2012, 09:49 AM	#42
kacir Wizard Posts: 3,450 Karma: 10484861 Join Date: May 2006 Device: PocketBook 360, before it was Sony Reader, cassiopeia A-20	It seems that the price for PB622 in UK is £144.00 (which is 172Eur according to Google) http://www.greenreader.co.uk/collect...cketbook-touch Available for pre-orders. Delivery starts March 30.