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Originally Posted by Rootman
I see the merging of tablet PC an ereaders as being inevitable, I mean as color e-ink , OLED or something else screens that sip battery juice the screens ability to reproduce color and moving images will be there.
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I'm all about pixel qi right now. e-ink is expensive and slow, and puts too many restrictions on other uses. A good LCD that can switch back and forth between backlighting and using reflective layers for the display means you still have video, gaming, better magazine support and other applications in your toolbox, at a fraction of the cost of more limiting tech.
The bigger advantage to a tablet paradigm instead of a retailer-dedicated device is being able to read from multiple stores by way of their reader applications instead of being primarily tied to one source. Either a Windows or iPhone OS tablet would provide a lot of flexibility on that front. Android and Windows Mobile may well get the right applications to serve the same need later on.
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I can also see the need for cell phone wireless AS WELL AS WiFi wireless to take advantage of speed or closed systems not available over cell phone. Perhaps te cell phone access by subscription and WiFi access built in as default.
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My ideal device won't have a carrier data radio at all, much less the cost associated with it. I get that some people want it, but the couple of hours a week where I don't have wifi access are hours I can live without connectivity. Wifi alone has me more than covered.