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Originally Posted by baicalin
Although I appreciate your advice, most of your critics added later are totally nonsense, firstly, you treat this device as e-book reader. But Precisely It's not e-book reader, It's e-reader and it's replace paper and printer not book like kindle. 9.7''e ink display is more appropriate to reading papers, articles than book. Second about battery, I certainly plan this device as indoor device and no one want to carrying printer and especially in business circumstance they will be charged regularly. And I planed to use e ink doesn't has back light I also searched display panel price regarding scale. and I didnt say I will deliver in two month. I said I will open hompage in 2 weeks and the development will be spent two month. Do you think e book market is bigger than printer ? there is the reason why I chose PDF.
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An ereader is an ebook reader. That is the definition of an ereader. What you are talking about is an eink tablet. That is as close a definition as I can understand.
I do not mean to be harsh, but there seem to be a lot of holes in your plan:
1. I do not know of anyone that wants to replace their printer with an eink device like that. This device does not make sense. If you need papers printed, then chances are you need to file them or submit them somewhere, not read them yourself.
2. It sounds like you want to make a cheaper version of the Sony Digital Paper. That thing costs $1000. It is overpriced, but it has many more features bundled in. There is no way you could make a device with similar functions for 10 times less.
3. And yes, the market for ebook readers is much, much higher than this paper replacement device.
4. After all of that, I do not see how you plan to sell this thing for $100 - $150. Adobe will want a licensing fee for using their technology (PDF, using their logos, etc.). Also, two months for development? That is really unrealistic. There is no way you could make this thing in that amount of time. Not to mention testing if it works correctly. What about the operating system? You would have either use Linux (modify it for your purposes), Android (also would need modifying) or develop your own. All three of those choices require a lot of hard work and testing. Hardware parts are not the only thing that goes into making something like this.
I am sorry, but this needs a lot more thought and research. Does the market even need such a device? I mean the Sony device is aimed at a particular audience: students and professionals, and I doubt they are selling very well because a tablet, either Android or iOS can already do what Sony is trying to push.