[radleyp]

Isn't the iphone screen as big (or very nearly as big) as the Zodiac's? I carry a smartphone (a MotoQ, on which I used to read books) and the Kindle. I have a lot of software on the Q (Quicken, Zagat, PocketStars, games) and it works fine. I input very little on the phone - I am a touch typist and only a full keyboard is for me truly satisfactory, so I input almost all on my desktop. A device the size of a Kindle would never, in any case, work as a phone. Dennis, I think the matter of price for the eink reader is exaggerated: figure I'll keep it for two years (that's how long I've had my Q), that's less than $20 a month, I spend that and more going to the movies once with my wife. Yes, the pda does more, but I don't see that that changes much: a Kindle is a reading device, period. I do not need or want pim functions in a device that size, as pim functions for me must fit in my pocket.