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brecklundin · 08-21-2010, 04:08 AM

so far nothing about the K3 is compelling enough to me to sell my K2i & case and replace with a K3. Sure the screen is likely better, but there are always trade offs plus there is the unclear status of the access to number keys...are they still an ALT-{top row letter} combination which are NOT labeled or accessed via the SYM key...either is a PITA. Even the manual when i read it a couple weeks back mentioned number key access other than via the SYM key and moving around in the selection box. Nothing in the version of the manual I downloaded a week or so after pre-ordering was announced mentioned the ALT-KEY combo as an alternative way to type numbers.

I do like the d-pad but do not think I will like the return to outward activating side buttons...and in they activate when pushed outward like the original K1 and unlike the inward activation of the K2 devices. But it's a coin toss until enough rational people get them in their hands and use them everyday, not just those who are willing to accept this constant waffling on design conventions. I find this very irritating. Think of every time you buy a new PC they changed the mouse buttons and way the keyboard worked just enough that there is a training period/learning curve or simply a "tough crap get used to it" sense to the change.

Those are but a few of the reasons it was easy for me to decide to pass on the K3 until next year at the soonest as my K2i is under warranty until a year from this December thanks to my credit card extending the warranty for a year automagically.

Buying now also shuts one out of any devices released this fall along with the usual Kindle price drop, though I sense, for a while, we are at a low point price wise, for the K3 anyway. I am even wondering if we might see a drop on the DXG to the $259 price point this fall. Especially given the release of the Pocketbook 900-series readers. As an aside I don't like the button layout on the currently released images of the PB900 series anymore than the DXG or even the K3.

But in general, for me, I am not having a hard time holding off on the K3 over the K2i I have currently. I even have one of those nice silicone-rubber "sleeve/skin" thingies on it to help with gripping and take care of the bright white reflections when reading outside on the deck in the sun. If ya live in a more northern latitude this might not be an issue for you but as ya move south and the sun gets higher overhead, the intensity of the sun on that white bezel becomes a lot worse than the LCD backlights many whine about.

08-21-2010, 04:08 AM	#23
brecklundin Banned Posts: 1,906 Karma: 15348 Join Date: Jun 2007 Device: mine	so far nothing about the K3 is compelling enough to me to sell my K2i & case and replace with a K3. Sure the screen is likely better, but there are always trade offs plus there is the unclear status of the access to number keys...are they still an ALT-{top row letter} combination which are NOT labeled or accessed via the SYM key...either is a PITA. Even the manual when i read it a couple weeks back mentioned number key access other than via the SYM key and moving around in the selection box. Nothing in the version of the manual I downloaded a week or so after pre-ordering was announced mentioned the ALT-KEY combo as an alternative way to type numbers. I do like the d-pad but do not think I will like the return to outward activating side buttons...and in they activate when pushed outward like the original K1 and unlike the inward activation of the K2 devices. But it's a coin toss until enough rational people get them in their hands and use them everyday, not just those who are willing to accept this constant waffling on design conventions. I find this very irritating. Think of every time you buy a new PC they changed the mouse buttons and way the keyboard worked just enough that there is a training period/learning curve or simply a "tough crap get used to it" sense to the change. Those are but a few of the reasons it was easy for me to decide to pass on the K3 until next year at the soonest as my K2i is under warranty until a year from this December thanks to my credit card extending the warranty for a year automagically. Buying now also shuts one out of any devices released this fall along with the usual Kindle price drop, though I sense, for a while, we are at a low point price wise, for the K3 anyway. I am even wondering if we might see a drop on the DXG to the $259 price point this fall. Especially given the release of the Pocketbook 900-series readers. As an aside I don't like the button layout on the currently released images of the PB900 series anymore than the DXG or even the K3. But in general, for me, I am not having a hard time holding off on the K3 over the K2i I have currently. I even have one of those nice silicone-rubber "sleeve/skin" thingies on it to help with gripping and take care of the bright white reflections when reading outside on the deck in the sun. If ya live in a more northern latitude this might not be an issue for you but as ya move south and the sun gets higher overhead, the intensity of the sun on that white bezel becomes a lot worse than the LCD backlights many whine about.