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Originally Posted by HansTWN
But a 6" screen on a color reader??? What can you read that you need color for that can be displayed comfortably on a tiny 6" screen? For browsing or video it is not much better than a good phone. For books with pictures and/or diagrams you would have to constantly zoom in and out or pan around. And at 6" it is too big to be pocketable. Why not make it 9 or 10" instead?
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I'm thinking decent photo-sharing, comic books with that program that magnifies the speech bubbles when you tap them, kids books. Not everything is a full size magazine. Hmm. I bet this is the next big porn media distribution channel (having thought about it for 30 seconds just now). And as a media player.
And the screens are quite a bit larger than those on phones in actual use. I find that even the iPhones don't allow enough text on screen to make it comfortable reading experience. I'm page flipping/sliding too much.
Yeah, they're not pants/shirt pocket-able, but I find I take my e-reader everywhere with me, even though it's a bulky old ebookwise 1150. I'd love if it had the connectivity of a cell phone, and I could just use a bluetooth headset with it. Cell phones/iPhones don't display enough text on screen for me at one time.
I think that the larger device size would, due to larger batteries, allow for longer battery life when used as a cell phone. This is important to me. I've grown used to only charging my device every 2 to 3 books. I wouldn't get that on any cell phone currently available (~15 hours reading time).
One device would do it all for me, and the size works better for me than a cell.