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Originally Posted by viviena
Even though it's quoted in several places?
Oh well. I'd just like a cheap colour ereader, fanciful extras optional, and the IQ looks like a good fit.  From my understanding also, the hardware is sufficient but the software wasn't necessarily optimised for the PDN. Since the IQ is supposed to use Pocketbook's own software for reading ebooks, fine by me. |
24 hrs battery life was also quoted.
Simple rule of thumb for touch devices: unless the vendor *explicitly* lists capacitance-touch or Wacom digitizers, assume the screen will be resistive. As an owner/user of multiple PocketPCs over the last decade I *know* resistive touch screens can be smooth and responsive--with the right software. Without it...no-go.
A tad of market familiarity helps, as a 2010 gadget selling at US$140 is most unlikely to bear expensive features like capacitance touch screens, 3G, GHz CPUs, etc. The likely price point for even the cheapest webpad with those features currently runs at US$250-300. And double that is just as likely.
Pocketbook has made it clear the IQ is positioned as a color Reader.
Any other value we can extract from it beyond that (web surfing, email, games, media playback) is strictly above-and-beyond the call of duty. Barnes & Noble is doing the same thing with their NookColor Android pad; positioning it as a reader not a webpad/mediapad. (Of course, they take it beyond "positioning" by locking it down so it *can't* be used in "non-approved fashion. Pocketbook has stated the IQ won't be locked down like that.)
Buying it solely as a color reader and being pleasantly surprised that it can do some extra features is better than buying it for the extra features and being disappointed.
For me the buy/no-buy decision will be driven by the extent of "Pocketbook-ishness" of the software. The closer it replicates PB360 features and behavior, the more likely I'll be to jump at it in december.