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[rcuadro]

I still cant get over the data plan with AT&T... unlimited data for $30/month...
the poor network will crawl to a hault

[whitearrow]

I might get one of these, but Kindle will still be my primary reading device. The idea of having the reading screen and the touch surface the same is utterly unappealing. I have a touchscreen phone and it's a smeary mess of fingerprints all the time.

[stustaff]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

In this configuration and with the $499 price it gets upgraded from 'meh' to 'mmm'

The keyboard dock will be $399

[dioib]

Originally Posted by SCION

So where does this leave the QUE reader? Anyone have one on pre-order?

I got over it the very day they announced the price..

I was following news on QUE for about 4-6 months, lost the track of time

[rcuadro]

but still no multi taksing... I think though that my iphone still will work out better since I dont have to carry around 2 devices...
though I do carry my Kindle around. ugh.

[rcuadro]

Originally Posted by stustaff

The keyboard dock will be $399

Ouch!

[nekokami]

I'm pretty sure the "iBook" app is Kobo. I just did a review of them (sorry, haven't posted yet, but I will today) and it looks just like this and uses ePub with Adobe DRM. On the negative side, it doesn't handle large numbers of books well-- no sorting functions.

[Moejoe]

This is very nice. I like

[Crusader]

Worldwide availability of the Wifi versions apparently in 60 days, with 3G models coming 30 days later.

The major problem I can see is their store not being available internationally. I know here in SA it seems only the app store seems to be accessible. Not iTunes to buy music and books from. Without content availability it seems a bit pointless.

[cmdahler]

Originally Posted by stustaff

I am very happy with that price.

Indeed. For that price point, a huge swath of e-ink business just died as though shot at short range by a cannon. There aren't even enough pieces left lying around to bury. Skiff and Plastic Logic basically just went out of business before they even managed to get their products on the shelf: at the kind of prices they were talking about at CES, they'll be lucky to sell a few thousand units each. A $400 Kindle or a $400 DR800 or a $400 Sony? Their sales just dropped through the floor and crashed into the basement in a cloud of dust. Joe Consumer won't even consider a slow-refresh, black-and-white-only reading device, most of which you can't even annotate, when one of these pads is priced so close. Any device requiring a stylus? That'll look like a joke now. Sony might continue to sell some of the smaller devices at prices around $100 to $200, but no one except the extremophile fanatics who populate this board will consider buying anything else, and there aren't enough e-ink fanatics out there to keep any sort of business model viable for anyone except perhaps Amazon.

[kjk]

Originally Posted by nekokami

I'm pretty sure the "iBook" app is Kobo. I just did a review of them (sorry, haven't posted yet, but I will today) and it looks just like this and uses ePub with Adobe DRM. On the negative side, it doesn't handle large numbers of books well-- no sorting functions.

it definitely looked familiar to me..for some reason my Kobo app isn't opening on my iPhone to check :O

[dioib]

Well, that's it.. switching to watch the rest of my movie

[nekokami]

The only reason I could see paying this much for a competing device is if the OS was open. That's the big drawback to Apple products, particularly the iPhone line.

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by cmdahler

Indeed. For that price point, a huge swath of e-ink business just died as though shot by a cannon. There aren't even enough pieces left lying around to bury. Skiff and Plastic Logic basically just went out of business before the even managed to get their products on the shelf: at the kind of prices they were talking about at CES, they'll be lucky to sell a few thousand units each. A $400 Kindle or a $400 DR800 or a $400 Sony? Their sales just dropped through the floor and crashed into the basement in a cloud of dust. Joe Consumer won't even consider a slow-refresh, black-and-white-only reading device, most of which you can't even annotate, when one of these pads is priced so close. Any device requiring a stylus? That'll look like a joke now. Sony might continue to sell some of the smaller devices at prices around $100 to $200, but no one except the extremophile fanatics who populate this board will consider buying anything else, and there aren't enough e-ink fanatics out there to keep any sort of business model viable for anyone except perhaps Amazon.

Totally agree. At that price point they basically just killed all e-ink devices, unless they start pumping them out at $50 each, which is highly unlikely. Amazon will probably survive as some kind of app, maybe, but who knows. Sony's dead in this game now. $499 is a price point that kills everything else dead, no matter what my initial reactions were.

[rcuadro]

Originally Posted by nekokami

The only reason I could see paying this much for a competing device is if the OS was open. That's the big drawback to Apple products, particularly the iPhone line.

The iPhone OS is the only OS that is really closed. Besides that you can program what you want for OSX... just dont install it on no apple branded hardware