[fishface]

You're asking the wrong audience...

You first have to describe the target market of the device, then get a focus group together from that sector.

At mobileread you're sampling from a population who are already interested in e-readers, most of whom own one. You'll be forever playing catch-up to your competitors. Also in terms of reading habits the population here is too diverse. E.g. ask everyone who owns a car what they like in a car. "Runs fast!" "Fuel efficient" "Looks rad!" "Doesn't stand out in a crowd", I mean, who will you listen to?

E.g., imagine if apple went to a tablet PC forum and asked what people would like in a device. Boom, they'd end up making the ipad like a tablet pc. The best possible tablet pc, but still a tablet pc.

Your dude needs to go back to business school, or if they're an engineer they need to find a savvy business guy.

Anyway, for my response, I want a pressure sensitive EMR pen (not a stinking stylus) and the ability to annotate and export PDFs.