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Originally Posted by pilotbob
What are the use cases planned for the Wi-Fi? Is it basically for Syncing? Or, will it have a web browser so you can buy ebooks from the device? Any info would be nice.
BOb
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Dear Pilot Bob:
Any e-ink and e-paper device like the EZ Reader has about a 200-400 MHz processor. It is pretty teeny compared to a computer. As such, it cannot web browse like a computer (of course, your notebook is lucky if it will run on battery for 5 hours and these machines get 8,000 pages of text to a single charge). There are trade-offs. Wi-Fi will allow going to websites DESIGNED to allow download to eBook Readers. These are not plentiful yet but are coming. We can, for example, program our EZ Reader to wirelessly link with the Fictionwise website (purely as an example). BUT... Fictionwise has to allow their site to be set-up to take the request. Remember, you do not have a curser... you have a great selection system with ten numbered buttons. Fictionwise would have to set up a seperate website where the 1-10 buttons can be used. For example: button 1 is drama, button 2 is science fiction, button three is comedy, button 4 is adventure, button 5 is classics, button 6 is Newspapers.
When we do the EZ Reader Plus with Wi-Fi we will have a pre-programmed site where you can go and do such a thing.
So, the answer to your question is: to wirelessly choose books... but it will have to be programmed to a site or a few sites where the site(s) will recognize the device and then work accordingly.
Does this help? I didn't know either, and had to go and find out so I could answer you. VERY smart question!!
Robert B