Yet one thing that sets e-ink readers apart from the PDAs is precisely its only strength and most expensive component: the paper-like screen. Traditional lcds on PDAs and (worse) laptops/PCs (reading documents on a computer screen is never a pleasant experience to me) just don't give you this comfort to the eyes. Perhaps what comes closest is the b&w displays of the good old Palms. But as an old PDA user (since Palm Pilot) and a new adopter of ebook readers (mine Hanlin V3), I'd say the e-ink display is just different. Perhaps I can wake up my Palm Pilot from slumber and take some pics to compare the screens.
Then again, the Zaurus also costs about as much as a e-ink reader and runs a *full* Unix/Linux system. Mine runs a complete OpenBSD 4.2.
Last edited by zdevil; 08-30-2007 at 12:37 PM.
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