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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
I have yet to meet anyone who actually paid $499 for an iPad. They start at $629 for 3G -- without USB, with only 16 GB storage -- which is enough for about 2 HD movies and absolutely nothing else. Plus, the 3G adds a minimum of $180/yr for a scant 250 MB/mth -- enough for abt 7 min of an HD movie. Yup -- seven minutes. For those keeping track, a month has 43,000+ minutes.
The sweet spot seems to be 32GB with 3G -- or over $900 in the first year in charges to Apple and AT&T, just to turn it on.
I really don't believe that a $259 Kindle 2 -- sorry, make that a $189 Kindle 2 -- has any problem "competing".
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I know 2 people with the $499 model, and my girlfriend has the 32GB wifi only version.
The people with the 16GB models just use it to surf the web, watch streaming video and do some reading so they didn't need space--my g/f would have probably been fine with it as well as I don't see here every putting video on it vs. streaming it.
3G isn't needed at all unless you travel a lot. My g/f and I are around wifi hotspots all the time pretty much. Point being, don't be an ass and generalize your needs to everyone. Not everyone drives to Mexico etc.--most of us spent nearly all our time at home and work and always have WiFi access and don't care about internet access when out and about.
I want a tablet for reading big PDFs, being able to flip through documents quickly which you can't do on slow ass e-ink etc.
That said, I'll probably keep my Kindle 1 for novel reading. Not sure I'd replace it after buying a tablet it broke though.
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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
The 5" Sony is not the PRS-600 Touch Edition and it does not offer anywhere near the same screen size, dictionary, text-to-speech, 3G, social networking or bookstore breadth of the Kindle at $189.
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Sure, but if someone just wants to simply read novels, the 5" sony is a great cheap option.
I like my Kindle, but I'd be fine with the simple Sony reader as well since I don't do anything but read novels on it and pretty much never use the dictionary etc. I'm miss the wireless though as it would be bit of a pain to have to hook up to the PC to load books on the 5" Sony.
But in any case, I was just commenting on the price per your post where you said you hadn't seen the 5" Sony for under $200, so not so sure why you're being so damn defensive and antagonistic.
Kindle fanboy/e-ink diehard I take it? In any case, chill out and quit being so defensive over nerdy e-reader devices! I love my Kindle 1, and agree the K2 is a steal at $189 and I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a dedicated reader for sure.
But moot for me as I don't know many who read (even with pretty much all my friends being fellow academics!) and they all want iPads or something similar and have no interest in e-readers.