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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
That's a matter of opinion. I read on a PDA all the time, and I'm perfectly comfortable doing that all day long. And larger devices can be used as a digital assistant if desired... they only need the right apps loaded on them, and you have to be used to carrying it around. Ask any woman who carries a purse everywhere she goes: Getting used to carrying something with you is not that hard.
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Actually I would say that the issues with PDAs are a matter of personal preference and or need. Personally, while my iPod Touch really got me into eBooks, I would not want to go back to it being my primary reader. I felt I had to change pages too often and even then, after several hours of reading, I often felt eye strain. And my wife (whose vision is not as good as mine) probably would find it unacceptable -- She tends to use the large font on the Sony PRS-505... at that size, I imagine only a dozen words would fit on the screen of the iPod Touch.
As for larger devices being used for PDA's? I really don't think it is going to happen. People have gotten pretty wedded to their phones having PDA functionality (Even my feature phone can be used for scheduling, email, web browsing etc.). Much about say about a 4" screen size and the device not is no longer (in my opinion) terribly easy to use as a phone .
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Bill