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Originally Posted by jswinden
You obviously don't know me or you would know that I'm no Apple fan. I have an iPad because it works, but I generally hate Apple and their arrogance, and I definitely hate Steve Jobs. And I hate when friends call me on their iPhones because I cannot hear much of what they say--terrible phone. I'm more of a Windows and BlackBerry kind of guy.
If I criticize the NC it is because it deserves to be criticized, as does Google for producing a lackluster Android OS. Even Scion who used to be the loudest proponet of the NC has given up on it. To be honest, the only good thing about the NC is its terrific LCD screen, though it is a widescreen which is bad for reading. A reader is better off with a 4:3 screen like most of the eInk readers. The only thing a widescreen is good for is video.
If you read the red, italics portion of my signature you will see I have no loyalties to any hardware or OS vender.
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whatever, your opinon is not fact. you like 4:3 but I think widescreen 7 inch is the perfect form factor for reading, more content to the page.
web browser? what exactly are looking for in a browser, I'm confused? My pages load up pretty fast, even such content heavy pages as Engadget. Scrolling through the sites has been fairly smooth, and AND the actual webpage display and not mobile webpages. Which to me is fantastic, So my webpages load up reasonably fast, scrolling is pretty smooth and I get the PC website not the mobile website, not sure what more you want from a small 7 inch ereader, to be honest with you.
The stock reader OS? Well that is purely subjectable. I, like most people, are general readers. I buy a book, read said book, shelf the book when done. I love the stock reader, I think it's very intuative, offers functions that though I may never use, that aren't available or aren't as effective on eink devices. I find the organziton of my collections very nice. I like the whole "My shelfs"
Now I don't take notes, I don't read technical PDF, I don't annotate ect. I know the Nook color offers features for these, but to the extent of how advanced they are I don't know. But judging by some of the comments around here, they seem to be very basic. So basically what I'm getting at is that the stock reader may not be the best for "Technical ereaders, note takers etc" for the vast majority of people who are general readers, the stock reader UI is wonderful. So again you base opininons as fact.
As far as your battery running down quicker, it's more than likely due to flash, I havent noticed any major declination of my battery usage when just reading and doing other ereading related tasks.
And as far as your comment about Android not being a good OS, well this isn't the place to debate that, but I couldn't disagree anymore. My Droid X runs just as smooth as my friends iPhone 4 and I have a pluthra of features, customizations and functinality my iPhone freinds only dream they can have on their phone.
What ever happen to the art of posting "IMHO" or "I think" or "Not for MY needs"