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Originally Posted by junkyardwillie
Nuance has a pretty good PDF viewer with some note taking abilities. Its much better than Adobes I think. There is also OneNote to take actual notes. I'm definitely holding off on any other eink devices, I have my Iliad and I want something that is better at PDFs a netbook with this screen in it is exactly what I want. I think when this thing releases I'll be sleeping outside a Best Buy to get one for 2 days straight like they have the iPhone  |
Don't forget that the Pixel Qi 3Qi is NOT eink. It has an epaper mode (and two other modes) but the display is a variation on current LCD tech with some pretty sweet new twists tossed in to radically reduce the power needs, or at least let the use decide if a lower power mode is fine for the task they are currently working on.
It is an important distinction to make. Because eink displays have MUCH lower power needs. Though I wonder just what the difference in battery life would be if one were to install an eink display on, say a PDA or netbook. I have a hunch it would not be really much different from the 3Qi in epaper mode. A lot of the battery life in the eink based readers comes from less power hungry hardware inside. I guess my point is, eink reading devices might really not be as efficient as has been assumed just because of the display.
I mention that because all of the new CPU's and other components in systems can now be completely powered down when not being used. What Pixel Qi did was expand that ability to the display itself. Now it seems we will have full on very efficient mobile computer devices. I am with you...can't wait to see the final units produced this fall or so...
I am sure someday soon someone, somewhere will do an oranges to sort-of-oranges Pepsi Challenge.