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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
Do you think that being eink, the next generation will be as quick as the present LCD offering?
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The E Ink display takes longer to alter than LCD, no question, but I think we are seeing with the other vendors (i.e. iRex) that inefficient coding is causing most of the slowness. I would think the page turn would be at least as good as the Sony Reader, but probably not much better (if at all better). A lot may depend on whether they try to offer PDF support. PDF is popular as a document format, but horribly bloated and slow to render (besides the other problems of being a fixed page layout format). If ETI emphasizes their current IMP format and continues to support import of various filetypes like txt, rtf, doc, etc., performance should stay good.
The main thing for ETI will be to keep the cost low. Hopefully they'll be able to re-use some of the engineering and even manufacturing they have already done for the 1150. I'm sure they'll need to charge more than they do for the 1150, but if they can come in under the price of the Sony Reader, I think they'll do very well, even if their system is still relatively closed. They have the established relationship with Fictionwise/eBookwise to leverage (though that may limit their DRM support to eBw -- no flames about DRM, please, we all know where we stand on this).