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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
But the fact of the matter is: with multi-function, comes multi-problems. You end up with a device that does many things half-assed and none of them well. That type of scenario should be avoided at all costs.
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I read many Project Gutenberg books with pleasure on a Palm IIIxe PDA I bought roughly five years ago -- even though the device was not designed as an eReader. As I recall, the cost of this type of scenario, in like new condition, was around US$20.
Word processors are sold for cell phones, just as they were sold for Palm PDA's (see
http://danbricklin.com/log/wordsmithreview.htm). I don't have the device at hand to fire up, but my memory is that those early Palm PDA's, like the K3, had a less than instant refresh rate. And keyboarding on the K3 is probably faster than entering Palm shorthand with a stylus. Not to mention that the K3 screen would be much better for word processing than the tiny low-resolution Palm screen.
Most people would not want to read books on a low-resolution Palm PDA, but somehow I did not mind. Most people would not have need for a word processor on a mobile eInk device, but if someone, some day, can put food on their table with the revenue from selling such software, I say good for them.
As far as I can tell, the main reason that the K3 is not seen as a multi-purpose device is that Amazon, for reasons unknown, seems to be limiting distribution of its systems development kit (SDK) to game software companies.