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Originally Posted by l_macd
I get told I'm in the 'boring minority' when it comes to mobile phones, but although smart-phones are huge and there's a lot less choice of 'basic' mobiles, they aren't going to disappear entirely, so why should e-readers?
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Color tends to push out black and white. I think that mobile phones with black and white screens did disappear. And monochrome black and white computer monitors have come close to disappearing.
I realize that many would find a mirasol color display device to be a better eReader rather than a tablet. Whether I would, I don't know for sure. Not being a particularly visually-oriented person, I doubt it.
I consider the outstanding feature of my Kindle Keyboard 3G to be the ability to take it anywhere in the world (of the places I can imagine going) and have seamless access to key mobile web sites for email, news and weather without making special arrangements or paying a monthly fee. I can't see this happening with a color device having a higher refresh rate.
It won't be the end of the world when Amazon pulls the plug on free worldwide cell-phone based internet and/or stops making monochrome devices. Until then, these are the good old days.