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Originally Posted by WeirdBeard
And please quit saying that the Kindle is ugly. It does not photograph well, but in person it is not really a bad looking device. I have a 2nd generation iPod and it looks better than that.  |
If we honestly think it is ugly, why should we not say that? I own both a Kindle and a PRS-505, and the design of the 505 is much cleaner. The cheap plastic case on the Kindle already has a crack in it (and no, I haven't dropped it), while the 505 is still pristine (and I actually have dropped that). And what's up with that case they ship the Kindle in?
The Kindle is a superior device from a software perspective for a variety of reasons, but for industrial design it has a long way to go. The only prop I can give the physical device is the user accessible battery, which Sony should be shot over.
I'm also going to back up Steve that $400 for a product sight unseen,
especially in a market where people are cutting back their spending, is not helping any. The only other person I know in real life that owns a Kindle hemmed and hawed since it was introduced and only broke down and ordered two weeks ago. Everyone else I know is listening to audio books ($9.95 a month on a device they already own), haunting used bookstores for cheap paperbacks, and using PaperBackSwap.com.
I think the Kindle has a future. That does not mean it is not without faults. (Not simply allowing encrypted MobiPocket titles to work on the Kindle as is, without resorting to hacks, is definitely a big one.)