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Originally Posted by LucidDreams
For the love of God just release the dang thing. Even if it can only read/display 1 format it's miles above better then anything else out there. And with the size of the screen all it needs is PDF format.
The Plastic Logic eBook Reader was suppose to be released early this year, now we're talking 2010? Seems like this is more half baked then originally thought. Sure it's a great device with a working proto-type. But it doesn't take 1yr to bring to market when the prototype works so well.
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I don't find it all that surprising, myself.
I'm remembering waaaaay back in spring of '06, when the original e-ink devices were scheduled to come out in May. Sony and iRex (I'm not sure about HanLin) had demo'd functional readers in various places. All three (including HanLin, I mean) were scheduled for ~May of '06 (I think Sony just said "spring"), and not a single one of them made it.
The closest was iRex, who let themselves be brow-beaten (mostly by us here
) into releasing as a sort of beta product in early June, a move which still smarts a bit, I'm sure, since the device clearly wasn't ready for prime-time just then. Sony didn't make its launch until October 1st, and HanLin never did launch one of the two models they were talking about.
Back then, it came down to the miserable, non-negotiable fact that brand-new technologies can't always be "scheduled" properly, curse them.
Plastic Logic's displays are something new all over again. Yes, they are visually very similar to e-ink, but they're not e-ink, so the new-tech slide-back effects are very much a factor.
That being said, I'm pretty interested by what I've seen so far, sure WinCE has its ... issues, but it also comes with some pretty wide-reaching compatibility built right in at the foundation. It's going to be interesting to watch this one play out.
