Re: removal of card slot:
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Originally Posted by NavyDad6
I would add that in addition to battery life, getting the K2 down to the width of a pencil might have been a factor also.
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It's no thinner than the Sony PRS-505, which has two card slots. (.36", compared to Sony's .3 estimate--both are about a third of an inch, or ~9mm thick.) I have trouble imagining an electronic device of that height/length being any thinner, regardless of the processing tech--it'd be too fragile. Unless they make them with tungsten frames, I don't think they should get them down to the size of the credit-card calculators.
I find myself agreeing with "hardware caused software problems, so we decided to tell the customers they didn't need that hardware rather than fix the software." That's what the official brush-off note reads like; if size constraints were an important part of the decision, it would've been mentioned. (Unless they're dodging with "you don't need a card" to avoid saying "our wiring tech is just not as compact as Sony's, so we couldn't do what they managed." Which I don't believe is the case.)