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Originally Posted by nasser
Hello, jswinden and others!
I've been using a Kohjinsha SH series tablet. 7" resistive touch screen, Intel A100 processor(bet you've never heard of this one!), 1 GB RAM, 80G HDD, Vista Home premium, dedicated hardware buttons on the left of screen (mouse pointer-like the IBM/Lenovo thinkpads, up/down/left/right combo), and right(mouse left/right click, pg up/down, enter, screen rotation). Wt: 1kg
Overall very good to use as an ebook reader. No need to worry about formats: txt, pdf, djvu, lit, doc/docx, html, chm, mht, cbr,... etc., obviously. Need to hold it with both hands. One handed leads to cramps after some time! But the total control you get in the two handed mode is quite good. Oh, and you can also touch away with finger or the stylus if you want one more input mode!
Gripes: battery life - 1.5 to 2 hours, gets heated so you feel your'e holding a toasted sandwich, landscape mode of screen only shows half a page(pdf), portrait mode of screen not useful as the font gets squashed in a full page mode.
How's the Asus tablet on battery life, weight and heat?
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The battery lasts at least 5 hours--I've never pushed it beyond that. It doesn't get hot and barely gets warm in one small area. It weighs 2.1 pounds, so it is a bit heavy as a reader, but the new iPad will weigh 1.5 pounds so it is going to be a bit heavy too.
I think a good modern 7" tablet running Windows 7 and with buttons like you described on the bevel would be great, but only if they would increase the resolution to 1024 x 768. All the 7" tablets I've looked at so far are 800 x 480 which is a bit low resolution for reading, but usable.
BTW: My Sony PRS300 is lightweight, but it too requires two handed holding or your hand will cramp after a while. The T91MT definitely requires holding with both hands.