11-16-2007, 02:28 PM | #31 |
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I'm flummoxed. Everyone's trying to make their gadgets sleeker and sexier. Fashion is actually important now in electronics design, and Amazon releases something that looks like a prototype from 1986? Wrong kind of retro.
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11-16-2007, 02:30 PM | #32 |
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11-16-2007, 02:34 PM | #33 | |
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11-16-2007, 03:09 PM | #37 |
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I was just looking back over the old manual and realized that it lists an alternate, "older" wireless format "1XRTT" that I don't recall ever hearing about (wikipedia has bupkiss on it).
I also note that the thing was supposed to take Audible.com (.AA) files natively. It also lists AZW (Amazon Whispernet, maybe?), PRC, MOBI, MP3 and TXT -- no RTF, interestingly, and I don't know, and rather doubt, if that PRC is anything other than MOBI. Then there's still the issue of how much has the thing changed in it's year of seclusion? |
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11-16-2007, 04:21 PM | #39 |
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'Tis devoutly to be wished.
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11-16-2007, 06:20 PM | #41 |
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I'm still thinking that the original pic that we have isn't so horrible if it's color corrected. Granted, I guessed on the color correction, but when you take out that ugly tan color, is the design sooo terrible?
I think the ugly 1990's PC color from the photograph is what made look so nasty. But that it just my opinion! |
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It looks like old calculator, we used 20 years ago.
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11-16-2007, 06:26 PM | #43 |
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Ok, that's a good point, but I think the pic also fails to show a good proportion. If it's pretty thin, I say it won't be so bad. If you look at the connectors on the bottom, it seems to be pretty slim.
I am going out on a limb and say that once we see better pics of it, it won't be near as fugly--even if they keep the same design. Last edited by tsgreer; 11-16-2007 at 07:04 PM. |
11-16-2007, 06:39 PM | #44 |
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I admire, but do not share your optimism. I can only imagine what it's going to look like with the attached reading light, too.
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11-16-2007, 08:41 PM | #45 |
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Actualy it looks like a slate computer from a poster for 2001: A Space Oddessy I remember
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