How much will the 6" one?
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Originally Posted by Robertb
Dear Axel:
Yes... slip of the tongue on the "almost". I just always fear saying "never ever ever locks up". My philosophy is that anything can be made to lock up if you try long enough and hard enough and get unlucky. Let me just say that our team of batterers could not get it to lock up or skip a beat!
It is a little depressing to hear that "thinner and lighter" ranked far down the list. Myself, I hate the bulkiness and weight of other devices. I guess it is just me then... but to me thin and small and light are prime considerations for comfort. We must have talked to about 50 book publishers who owned one of the other eBook Readers and kept hearing "cumbersom, no fun to hold, hard to pack, and particularly the general layout makes it impossible to hold for more than an hour". To them, our device was a major leap forward in ergonomics.
I did note another reader commenting on the delay for the Astak device. I do sympathize; but wanted to explain that this is brand new to us. We are not an Amazon or a Sony. Also, you initially set schedules based on what you think it will take. However, no man is an island... we were forced to work with Adobe, Microsoft, Mobiepocket and other formats. A device without a format is not a device. We expected they would fall all over themselves to get their format on our devices. Reality is they fell all over themselves not doing anything. Agreements took months and then it came to getting it actually ported. Silly me... I thought it would take a few weeks at most. Porting takes forever and there is little help. You either pay $200,000 to have someone else do it (raising the price you charge for the device) or you try to slog thru it yourself with engineers who never did it before. I do not think the average MobileRead Forum experts truly understand what porting is... an endless nightmare.
Yes, I agree that there are more pressing issues than "thinner and lighter" but at least I am open to hearing them. I did invite the readers to come to CES and chat. I cannot solve all of the problems with eBook Readers in one effort. I can just try to keep the price down and generate the best one yet. Will there be a Version 2? Yes, I think so. This is because technology keeps moving forward and eBook Readers are a compilation of the parts... panels, controllers, embedded flash, e-paper, micro-electronics, and copyrights. By the time you get one device to market, advancements have come out that you wish you had.
I do appreciate your comments!!
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