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Thank you, pbarrette, for the excellent review! And for what concerns hands-on experimentation with the device... I'm impressed. Now, if only someone would do the same with the (similarly Linux-based) Asus DR-900...
About the EA800: I, too, think that it is a very interesting device, though I yet have to try one personally. In particular, it looks like a nice tool for people with scientific/technical jobs: pdf reading and annotation, fast scrolling and page switching thanks to the LCD screen, note taking, high-resolution sketching, a browser, reasonably fast processor, large screen, acceptable weight. I certainly could use one :-)
I hope it will not remain an oddball product, and it will be the first specimen of a new category of hardware. Maybe for mass diffusion a color screen will be required; on the other hand, if and when electrophoretic displays will reach reasonably high frame rates (say, 10Hz), an EA800-like device equipped with such a screen would be a dream come true for me.
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