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Originally Posted by mgmueller
Vast majority of the features you describe has been available on iRex iLiad since summer of 2007
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I meant progress in the mass-market devices (which for North America started with PRS-50x if I'm not mistaken). iLiad with its price/distribution was never a mass product (unlike PRS, Kindle, nook). But that's how it works in the world, if you look at the cars for example, some features which are initially only available in the bigger and more expensive cars over time make it into the regular cars as well. That's what we're seeing in the readers and it is progress.
There's a number of obvious factors contributing to the lack of innovation in the niche e-ink products, still you can't blame Sony, Amazon and B&N for that (you can start blaming Apple in a few months tho).
PS. AFAIK, Kindle still was the first reader with the free 3G for books/browsing.