Why are you posting specification in German, when you can easily choose English on WeTab website and download even product specification pdf in English?
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Originally Posted by martienne
+I trust a DE company any day over the Silicon Valley (EU pride!  ) |
Do you remember Txtr?
The company that was supposed to sell WiFi enabled fantastic e-ink reading devices "Real Soon Now (TM)" at least a year ago?
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Originally Posted by martienne
Anyway it's around EUR500 depending on which model you choose and it doesn't have any of the known limitations to iPad. (tied to apple, no multitasking, no flash etc).
The price is good too, compared with iPad: Seems you get a bit more for the money.
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Well, it looks very interesting.
It has got Intel Atom processor inside, so *IF* they are successful we will see quite a few apps, perhaps a ported Ubuntu Netbook Remix, or even howto for installing windows.
I can't see any obvious catches or gotchas.
You should check what it can do "out of box", what applications you will have to purchase in order to use it as intended, what is the price of applications.
For me an important factor in deciding would be "Do I have to register to the shop with my Credit Card in order to download free applications?"
You should also investigate how difficult it will be to get generic Linux applications running on it and if such applications are ready to work with multitouch and in keyboard-less environment.
Oh, don't forget to look if the battery is user replaceable and what is the price of replacement. The best situation would be if you could carry a charged spare with you, but I am skeptical.
For quite a few years I was using Cassiopeia A-11 device. A Microsoft Windows CE 1.0 device. One of very, VERY few Windows CE 1.0 devices. The CE 1.0 was *SO* bad, it was abandoned very quickly and people that purchased the device had virtually no applications to install on it. There was one application you had to install - a patch. Without that patch the device ate batteries at an alarming rate even when it was switched off.
I was using the device strictly for reading e-books. It was almost unusable for anything else (by the time I purchased it third hand, for a small fraction of original price).