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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's perhaps overly optimistic. We'll see such devices, yes, but I'll personally be surprised if it's in the summer. End of the year's more likely, I think. I have some doubts that Sony will continue in the market; their 13" device doesn't seem to have been hugely successful, and they've already abandoned the eInk fiction reader market.
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I had a Pocket PC back in the 2000's. The device was for the most part useless. It was slow, suffered from horrible software bugs and battery life but it was, in a way, a new device targeting a huge potential market that, if addressed well, will be revolutionary. Its clear now that HP and Microsoft failed to gain a huge portion of that market simply because their devices were
technological immature and
failed to fulfill expectations.
Well, 17 years later we replaced our camera, music player, portable gaming device, address book, video player, and even our desktop for casual internet browsing and terrestrial phone line with a device that has addressed all of its shortcomings and -then- became extremely useful. Even our grandma has an smartphone and facebook account now.
In the future, will a portable device replace paper for everything? I really think so. Will it be this or the next year?
Very unlikely. Will it be eInk and ONYX? I have my doubts.
But they'll keep trying. And
an extremely small percentage of consumers will keep supporting their expensive trials and errors buying an immature device that improves a little on each iteration just because they really have the need for "digital paper"
now.