Any Dual screen tablet/e-reader?

[faltradl]

Originally Posted by xtech

Should the device be made by some Giant, such as Sony, Amazon or Apple, it is unlikely that it will need repairs.

I guess you never have seen reader and smartphones with broken displays. Even the big player can't prevent the people letting fall their device on stonefloor, or to sit on it.

[Zelandi]

I think I'd just make a case that would fit both devices at once... it's not like a tablet or an e-reader is very large or heavy these days. Could probably make a case that's 1" thick with both devices, and whatever size the tablet would be.

Then again... I don't even own a tablet. :P

[Sydney's Mom]

Haven't read every past post, but I consider the Blueshade option on my cheapo Fire the closest thing to a dual screen. That is what I bought it for, as the Paperwhite screen was too bright or too dark. Blueshade with brightness all the way down is just right.

[xtech]

Originally Posted by Nate the great

No, Amazon had a patent. That does not mean they had any plans to develop the idea commercially, and it generally points to the opposite.

Any time a company gets a patent before they launch a product it usually means they have no interest in launching the product. Otherwise the device would have come first.

Do you have some statistics related to that? Cause it looks weird. I would assume that a company may wish to get a patent so that it may have some time to develop it better and make sure that other "sharks" would not get it earlier. But if it does not act according to the original intent of the patent within reasonable amount of time without serious justification, the patent should be annulled and the company should be fined, especially if there were evidences that other companies were in the development process as well, which had to be stopped because of the patent.

So, if the current patent law does a have such a dramatic logic gap, it was formulated to provide the bigger guys with the opportunities to steal the oportunities and thus the profits from the smaller guys.

[Dulin's Books]

Originally Posted by xtech

it was formulated to provide the bigger guys with the opportunities to steal the oportunities and thus the profits from the smaller guys.

Yes. That's exactly what the switch, to ‘first to file’ from ‘first to invent’, was about.