It looks like email and calendar syncing requires connectivity with your PC or a blackberry to work, most likely over wifi or bluetooth. So don't expect the 3G version to offer free email connectivity. Now, that may make it worth it... In one of the CES videos, gmail synching was mentioned, but that may be in conjunction with Good Technology. It would seem annoying to remember to have your PC running so your Que can sync your emails / appointments or to have your blackberry's power-sucking bluetooth always on.
From what I've seen so far, I really like the clean iconic interface. It's very web 2.0 and makes the interfaces on the other readers look very early-days-of-the-web-with-netscape. The barnes and noble book store looked nice and way way better than what irex showed on their dr800 debut demo, which was simply the mobile BN website.
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