[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by Ripplinger

I have to ask... what phone do you have that's perfectly readable in bright sunlight? I've yet to ever see one that does that.

I use a Nokia Lumia 920 with a matte screen protector (that latter is mandatory if you want to use it outside, even on a partially cloudy day). If I turn up the brightness to full (it's usually on low), it's perfectly readable even in direct sunlight (as I had plenty of opportunity to try out this spring as we were waiting to get a tow to a garage while on holiday...). Naturally, this is not good for your battery life (and unless you use a lot of sunblock, for your skin).

Originally Posted by KevinBurke

Whatever, although a tablet can do many more things than an e-reader-- reading books on tablets is just stupid :

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/bu...tractions.html

People who want tablets instead of e-readers were never avid book readers to begin with. You illiterate people don't seem to get that an e-reader is a dedicated niche reading device for book readers and it does its job extremely well unlike a tablet which is a jack of all trades but master of none. You dumb illiterate tablet people should stop trying to ruin it for the more erudite intellectual people who actually read more than you do.

Thank you for calling me a dumb illiterate person. I'm proud to be one of those dumb illiterate people that can actually read books on tablets without being constantly distracted by other functions that my tablet may or may not have.

Originally Posted by Teknikal

I see no reason they can't take some tablet hardware perhaps a stripped down version of Android (no need for the full thing as I'm sure eink would not cope well with most tasks anyway) slap an good eink screen into it and buy some decent software perhaps based on Mantano or Moon+ ideally.

I have the Onyx T68 and it's a very nice first try. The only problem is the processor, it's just too weak for most tablet functions. But Calibre Companion works perfectly on it (which is the app I use most, beside the built-in Neoreader) and my newspaper app works as well (even if a bit slow) in case I want to read the newspaper when I'm on the road with the tent (so no place to constantly charge my full tablet...)