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Originally Posted by Zeebra
In a year of using my K3 I never used audio, games or the browser.
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Everyone's different. I bought the K3 primarily for the no-monthly-fee international internet, although the idea of switching from a tiny Palm device, to Pearl eInk, for reading Project Gutenberg books, certainly sounded nice, and is.
As for sound, we sometimes play music on it though the car audio. As a sound player, the Kindle is superior to what I have used most of my life (33 1/3 RPM records that skip).
The K4 now being shipped sounds like it has some nice touches (glare-free, fast unobstrusive page turns) but still doesn't interest me. Plus it will not last all that long due to a non-replaceable battery. Maybe it is priced according to value (essentially, free) if you take advantage of enough of the special offers, but I doubt we would.
Touch screen? I don't see how it would be an improvement, and if they block off full internet on it, as intermittently threatened, the device will be much worse than the K3 for my purposes. On the other hand, if the touch has the same internet as the keyboard Kindle, and if my now out-of-warranty K3 dies a year from now, the touch could be considered.
A tablet without 3G, and with a screen still too small to show complex Pdf's? That has a battery which may not last all day? That makes no sense to me. The only reason I would want a tablet is as a highly portable computer, so the battery has to last from early morning to late at night before recharging. Someone may say that I wouldn't use it for 16 hours continuously, and it could be turned off when not used. But if the manufacturer claims 8 hours on a fresh battery, what will actual battery life be on a year-old battery?