Thread: Astak Mentor eBook readers with WiFi and Touchscreen (read-only)
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Old 04-10-2009, 01:11 PM   #1781
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Originally Posted by brudigia View Post
Well, there is at least one netbook, can't remember right now whether ASUS or ACER, which boasts 9 1/2 hours battery. And it is not idle boasting, reviewers have found it true. So I think that if not correctly priced, 9.7" devices will collide head on with netpc. Now a 300 € 9.7, on the other hand maybe could make it. But still they would have to find a killer applications. 6" are much more portable, 9.7 are definitely unwieldy.
And yes, reading off a screen is supposed to be tiring, but after the apparent huge success of Stanza on iPhone and iTouch I would not be so sure about it.
Presumably said netbook would be a lot heavier than a 9.7" ereader. And it still doesn't boast eInk.
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