Thread: The future of 5" readers
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Old 10-02-2011, 04:04 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by Chi Cygni View Post
Looking at what has been recently happening on the market I see a tendency to move towards 6" screen. It's nice of course to have screen estate but I must admit I love my 5" Opus. I prefer to carry it in my purse to the Kindle Keyboard. The new models are fine and dandy but not available in Europe yet, I'm only interested in a 3G model and for the moment won't buy a new one.

Are there any 5" models fans too? Or are we going down the route of a 6" screen with a minimal bezel? Once Opus drops price below 100 € I will buy a backup one, I like it so much even though it's side loading, absolutely no frills reader, with vizplex (good enough for me too)

Size matters, as they say Any thoughts welcome!
I like a 5" too. Something that will fit in a shirt pocket. Samsung just brought out a Galaxy Note which is really a smartphone. It has a 5.3" AMOLED screen. It is way too expensive though.
Still they are bringing to the US sometime in Oct their new Galaxy WiFi S 4" and 5" Players.

In particular the 5" player is of interest. It is supposed to be 269USD while the 4" is either 229 or 239USD.

The width for the 5" player is 3.07 inches, the length is 5.56 inches. [corrected]

Here is the URL (note for Singapore right now.) Coming to US in Oct (16th maybe.)

http://www.samsung.com/hk_en/consume...ype=prd_detail

Oops just checked. Now available for pre-order on Amazon. Release date Oct 16 as above.

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Galaxy...7543156&sr=8-2

One note, Amazon has a mistake about the the display at 480x480 pixels, but the Samsung site has it 480x800 pixels.

The device has GPS, and can edit, create, and save MS docs among others.
Of course it can browse as well.
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