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Originally Posted by speedlever
I would have thought that wifi would be attractive world-wide. I can only speak for myself, but I struggled to not add 3g capability to the wifi requirement. Wifi is so prolific in the areas I normally go that I've not experienced the need for 3g. At least to my mind's eye, wifi is highly desirable and precluded any consideration on my part for the PRS350/650 or other such EBR.
I still don't get why it would be a regional thing (wifi, that is).
Regarding formats, I was completely unaware of ebook formats until I began my EBR research a couple of months ago. As far as I knew, ebooks were like emusic... you d/l from the site of your choice and play back on the device of your choice. Wow, was I wrong. Well, temporarily, at least. 
And then I educated myself on how to make it work like I thought it should. Which freed me up to buy the device of choice.
As to whether or not Sony is #2, it doesn't matter to me. I was just curious why some figures were considered to be guesses and others were taken as fact. |
I am not sure if wifi is attractive or not, the markets here are not unified as in the States. Each country has its own telephone company and add to that the new companies that were allowed after the states monopoles ended. It is a having the US divided into their states again, but this time with different languages and such. Now try to download your book via wifi. When being in France and being French I can use my SIMcard in my reader, but the moment I cross the border... hm, difficult.
Right now the following readers in Germany have wifi/3G:
Oyo which is tied to a shop called Thalia.
Acer Lumiread which is tied to a shop called Libri.
And Pocketbook which is tied to no shop but the 3G doesn't work in exchange.
Do you now see why I doubt the significance of wifi over here?