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beachwanderer · 03-19-2009, 08:06 AM

Thanks a lot for the well conducted and interesting interview!

Just found time to see it in full today - sounds really promising.

I find the intended open, linux based software to be more to my personal taste than the custom Win CE, that plastic logic intends to use.

It will be really interesting to see how the txtr will do in the market compared to its likely competitor, the plastic logic reader. That device will probably have the higher pricetag but can sport a bigger display which will make it more attractive for people who are occupational readers. And probably make it more handy for something like NewspaperDirect or similar.

Then again txtr will have direct wireless (likely GPRS) connectivity while plastic logic just seems to speak about WiFi ...

On the Börsenblatt , the magazine of the german booksellers association, there was this piece about txtr (in german) on tuesday.

03-19-2009, 08:06 AM	#50
beachwanderer - Posts: 2,602 Karma: 16748808 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: At the Baltic Sea Device: Some	Great Job CommanderROR ! Thanks a lot for the well conducted and interesting interview! Just found time to see it in full today - sounds really promising. I find the intended open, linux based software to be more to my personal taste than the custom Win CE, that plastic logic intends to use. It will be really interesting to see how the txtr will do in the market compared to its likely competitor, the plastic logic reader. That device will probably have the higher pricetag but can sport a bigger display which will make it more attractive for people who are occupational readers. And probably make it more handy for something like NewspaperDirect or similar. Then again txtr will have direct wireless (likely GPRS) connectivity while plastic logic just seems to speak about WiFi ... On the Börsenblatt , the magazine of the german booksellers association, there was this piece about txtr (in german) on tuesday.