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Originally Posted by firekat
Just a quick perusal of the Sony Reader forums does not show the same level of frustration that is the general sentiment here. Scotty1024 is posting more over there than here, you can imply a lot with that.
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In general,
everybody is posting more in the Sony Reader forums than in the iLiad forums... by which I mean, there's actual traffic over there, and next to nothing here.
Regarding the "true nature" of the iLiad, it's too expensive to be only an eBook reader, at least for me. I'd pay that much for a true Info Pad-- heck, I paid that much for my Newton MessagePad 2100 ten years ago. And despite the slow start time/no sleep mode and latency on E Ink, I think the iLiad hardware could probably manage to be a pretty decent Info Pad, but they'd need to massively bump the priority of the pen input (including calibration and pressure support), get the SDK and unbrick tool published, and possibly actually create the Info Pad software (or at least port appropriate packages to the iLiad to get close). But none of that will likely happen, unless one of their B2B customers asks for it.
And I could be wrong about the iLiad even being a candidate. Based on the videos I've seen, it looks like it could serve, but I haven't personally had to live with the boot time or display latency yet.
So I guess I'm still waiting for the right device to come along... at least I've got my eBw 1150 to read books on in the meantime. That was US$114 including shipping, a much more reasonable price for an eBook reader.
