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Originally Posted by Charbax
Touchscreen, WiFi, we have those features on the Irex Digital Reader 1000S for not much more expensive than the Kindle DX.
In my opinion, Amazon had no excuse not to include touchscreen wacom stylus input and full WiFi or international 3G modem support.
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Touchscreen is available for the same i-ink screen, with the Sony PRS-700 (though theirs is 8 shades of grade), and here's Pogue's writeup on it, which merely says what almost every other review has said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/te...gue-email.html - bad loss of clarity to the extra layer.
Another article on the Sonys yesterday compared the Sony 505 vs the 700 and had a photo showing the differences, which I first thought was due to lighting but the frame or bezel? of the 700 indicates otherwise, as far as main cause. I have that in an entry from last night. It's no wonder the 700 has not been selling particularly well and I've seen reports of people going from the 700 to the 505.
The newer Iliad 1000s is about $750 without the WiFi/Bluetooth/3G?
What's the verdict on the 1000s here? Worth $750? With 3G, implemented, worth the $860?
So many are waiting on Plastic Logic, not due out until 2010 and they do not plan email or a web browser for it.
- Andrys
http://kindleworld.blogspot.com