But how many dedicated readers are available today? Most of them are already multifunctional, they have WLAN, 3G, a usable (although not comfortable internet access), can play music, watch pictures (ok,only black and white), so I think the time of the
dedicated reader, for the single purpose of reading with a black/white E-Ink display has already passed
On the other hand I can't see users walking around pressing a 9" pad to their ears for lack of a telephone, or reading on a whatever high quality LED, screens for hours
So we have to wait for the future and whatever the Engineers develop in screen technology, my personal guess is something like a colour E-Ink display, fast and responsible enough to play HD videos, combined with a shiftable backlighting. AMOLED meets Mirasol meets Pocketbook meets IPad
And this devices will come in all price categories from 29,99 to 500-600 bucks depending on quality and features. I guess they will form an alternate platform to the smartphones, who will dominate the comunication sector and will replace the old Notebook/Netbook/Laptop generation, because they are far more versatile, lighter, less power demanding and far more elegant
The end of this development might be something like this cool plastic screens the have in the "Avatar" movie, where you can load the contents with a swish of your finger direct to your reader and move on, although I don't think something 100% transparent is a very clever idea, except for making a movie
