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Originally Posted by Jakie
DMccunney, I wonder if the archos 4.3 would meet your needs. It is an android platform, so it could meet your other than ebook needs, as well as download any ebook for android app. Just wondering?
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The Archos looks nice, but I'd be more interested in a larger device. For something like the Archos, my choice might be one of the Nokia Internet Tablets running Maemo. (The N800 with two SD slots looks tasty.)
Connectivity for web surfing, email and the like is needed, but I'm not concerned with being able to download books directly to the device. I currently roll most of my own from HTML source and drop them into the proper directories on the SD card in my PDA where the various ebook viewers (
Plucker,
MobiPocket,
eReader,
PalmPDF and a few other things) will see them, and my master ebook library lives on my desktop. (The eBooks directory tree occupies about 19GB on the drive it lives on.) I'd want easy connectivity between my desktop and the device to transfer things back and forth.
Some of what I'd want to do really needs a bigger screen than the Archos or the Nokia, which is why stuff in the iPad form factor is attractive. I'm not concerned with being able to carry it in a pocket (and my PDA is big enough I usually don't carry it in one.) Nor am I overly concerned with one handed operation. Much of what I would do couldn't be managed one handed in any case.
Thanks for the pointer, though - noted for a closer look.
What I'd really like, alas, no one seems to make. I don't want a smartphone that can display ebooks because the screen isn't big enough for a lot of the other stuff I do. I'd want a dual device: a small cell phone, and a larger tablet, that could each be used stand alone but would work together if both were present. (Like, the cell phone could serve as a modem for the tablet in areas where 3G was present but wifi wasn't.) Someday...
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Dennis