Totally agree that ereaders are experiencing a plateau at the moment. I see very little difference, beyond price and 3G, between the T1, the latest Kindles and my 650. The latter was a nice upgrade from my old 505, the dictionary, better screen and, to a lesser extent, the touch screen being the main reasons I upgraded. I went Sony as I'm not interested in 3G or the Kindle bookstore.
How far away are we from dual screen e-ink/LCD panels? Or will this never happen and we'll instead see Pixel Qi or Mirasol displays? Seems an age between seeing these technologies on Engadget et al and hearing of anything actually coming to market
A 7" tablet that doubled as a iPad type consumption device ie video, browsing, but also have the strengths of e-ink based readers would be killer - dreams of such a product is why I'm so underwhelmed by the Kindle Fire. My iPad sees a lot use at work where I get a lot of free time, it's been a great purchase, but I find it far too unwieldy and glarey for prolonged linear reading sessions. For me, e-ink in smaller form factor utterly trounces it on that score. A combo device, aaah, here's my money up front, please deliver!