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Originally Posted by GA Russell
I think that Robert is a good salesman!
Three weeks ago I had my heart set on a txtr. But now I think that I will see what the Pocket Pro early adopters think of that unit's build quality.
No matter what specs Robert touts, if the unit seems to be junky I'll give it a pass. But if it's solid, I think I'll go for it.
The txtr being German, I would be very surprised if it were junky. But they will have wireless options, and its price may be in line with the Kindle 2's $299 rather than the Sony 300's $199. If so, I'll go with the $199 Pocket Pro.
I will also be curious to see if the txtr has a user-changeable battery. I wonder how many people think that that feature is as important as I do.
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I definitely think it's a huge selling point. Regardless of how solid , well-built, or high quality of the device, there will always be the chance that you have a bum part, and a battery is high upon that list.
There's nothing worse that waiting months for release, preorder, waits a week on the shipping, and when the deivce comes in, have to send it back (extra shipping) wait up to 3 weeks before getting it back (one week to ship up, a week to fix-they had many to replace, a week ship back). That happened to my brother-in-law.
So yeah, being able to replace your battery by yourself is a GREAT boon.