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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
I was very pleased with it, though still not enough to buy. But it looks much better than I expected and costs much less that I expected and the estimated battery life is a good bit better than I expected.
If it had stylus markup and and handwriting recognition built in, I'd have one preordered.
I have some other gripes with the 4:3 screen ratio, lack of multitasking, no flash support etc. But I could overlook that if I could use it to mark up PDFs and books with a stylus.
Especially since it's a good bit cheaper than large screen e-ink devices with laggy stylus support like the iRex, or the Que with its finger touch etc. This tablet has killed any chance I buy one of those devices. Why pay more for a device I'd only use to read and mark up a few documents a month, vs. waiting for a tablet device like this that adds stylus mark up to all the awesome multimedia functions that I'd get a lot of use out of?
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Handwriting recognition - there are iPhone apps for that, so there will be some for iTab.
Lack of Flash support hasn't seemed to hurt iPhone sales, I think Apple thinks they can ignore it and refuse to cooperate with Adobe in a serious way, and is betting on HTML5 to sweep it away before it can bite them. We'll see. Adobe, of course, would like nothing better to complete their multiplatform story with iPhone/iTab support. As it is, it's a gaping hole, and has hurt Adobe more up to this point.
PDF markup will probably have to be provided by third party application (there must be iPhone apps that do this now?). Hmm. When is Adobe going to ship a PDF reader for iPhone/iTab?
There are third party styluses for iPhone, I assume they'll work with this.