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Originally Posted by Shaggy
IMO, it's definitely premature since nobody knows how well the DX works in the "real world". We've just seem demos and announcements. Let's see how well it lives up to the hype once consumers start reporting back on it.
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Practically everything about the KDX is the same as on the Kindle 2, which is a known quantity. The PDF support is new but is underwhelming: no search across your PDF collection, no notes, only a single portrait and a single landscape mode. On the other hand, a 9.7" screen is "good enough" for PDFs and there was not much wrong with the Kindle 2 (no folders, single dictionary, ...?). I would love to have the option of a DR1000SW as an alternative to the KDX. The web browser on my Kindle 1 is significantly better than any on the iLiad, and would be "good enough" on the KDX's larger screen for casual browsing. It can't take half a year to add a WiFi chip to the DR1000S, so the hold up is presumably software (again). A touch screen is better than a keyboard on a device this large, so again the DR1000SW wins - or it would if it existed.