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Old 03-19-2009, 10:33 PM   #56
Charbax
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Wizpac are totally awesome!

There are a few things I would like to have:

1. Text input might be kind of a sad thing not to have, consider that you have a HSDPA connected E-Ink device, not having text input requires that you do all the txtr.com synching constantly on a laptop or something. Being able to quickly type in Titles for books to download over HSDPA, URLs of blogs to load, or type the first letters of items to load. Even a very small thumb keyboard perhaps one very basic one that would be embedded in the leather case or that could flip from behind the device somehow to cover the lower part of the device, that could be enough.

2. Not having a Wacom style handwriting input is also kind of sad. Cause really handwriting input provides amazing amount of things even though the iRex and such software I have seen so far provide little more than just scribbling on texts. What is needed is a full type of software for online collaboration for reading, annotating and commenting all texts.

I haven't seen much of how the txtr.com system will work. But there are a few features that I would really like to have on a HSDPA connected E-Ink device:

1. Google Reader
2. Google News
3. Google Books

Some ways to integrate those things. Perhaps you just give txtr.com your Google account login informations and it brings in your customized access to blog items, news articles and ebooks found through Google services?

I'd like a Chrome and Firefox browser plugin which lets easilly in one-click push browser content over to the HSDPA connected E-Ink reader. Basically easilly preparing read-lists of content beamed from ones browsing activity on the computer. I guess that is somewhat how the txtr.com service is going to work?

Some people are talking about a bigger version being needed. I need a smaller and perhaps even cheaper pocketable 5" sized version.

Supporting DRM and all that is fine, but I think they need to focus on full access to all online sources for texts.

I think they should provide a HSDPA unlocked version. More and more countries especially in Europe provide really cheap HSDPA sim-cards for use only for HSDPA data applications. Thus perhaps also European and other telecoms can provide rebates for supplementary data SIM cards which users would choose to use for their second, third and fourth HSDPA connected devices. So if a subscriber has a HSDPA SIM card in the mobile phone, the netbook, the pocket computer, the in-car GPS device and in the E-Ink reader, the subscriber shouldn't have to pay 5x the price of one HSDPA SIM card service.

Anyways this does sound really awesome.

Last edited by Charbax; 03-19-2009 at 10:39 PM.
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