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nekokami · 12-14-2007, 01:14 PM

You could be right, Dale. Maybe there's no market position for a higher-end device like the iLiad. I view it as a low-end tablet, which is why I bought one, but I bought it used at half price. I never could have justified full price.

That being said, a conference full of traveling training specialists thought it was extremely cool and not too pricey. (I must have been the lowest paid person there!) And I still think it has a lot of possibilities for graduate students and researchers. The battery life is much longer than for any tablet, and most academics don't care about video.

But nearly everyone I've shown it to is surprised that it doesn't convert handwriting to text.

12-14-2007, 01:14 PM	#112
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	You could be right, Dale. Maybe there's no market position for a higher-end device like the iLiad. I view it as a low-end tablet, which is why I bought one, but I bought it used at half price. I never could have justified full price. That being said, a conference full of traveling training specialists thought it was extremely cool and not too pricey. (I must have been the lowest paid person there!) And I still think it has a lot of possibilities for graduate students and researchers. The battery life is much longer than for any tablet, and most academics don't care about video. But nearly everyone I've shown it to is surprised that it doesn't convert handwriting to text.