Early report on the Amazon Kindle, due Nov 2011.

[travfar]

Originally Posted by alansplace

no, not insecure at all, besides, in my opinion, one post on this issue (especially after all of yours) doesn't make a person defensive. just who are you to allege that i've not bothered to do something? you have no knowledge what i may or may not have done! finally, i don't mind you having an opinion about anything, i simply asked you politely to please quit stating your opinion on this issue as fact, to which you responded rudely with personal insults.

You politely asked? Uh huh... Your whole post was insulting. You self appointed yourself the spokesman for "most other folks" and gave yourself authority to decide what people should and should not write. Perhaps you should practice censoring what you read and not try to censor what other people write.

[travfar]

Originally Posted by Blossom

Probably not a brand sold around here which is why they are new to me. We have best buy and that's it.

Best Buy sells quite a few Lenovo laptops as does Office Depot. Lenovo sells their laptops under 2 broad brands. Lenovo is the consumer oriented line and Thinkpad is the professional one. Lenovo brand is generally available pretty much anywhere they carry electronics. I've only seen Thinkpads in three stores in the US, Fry's, MicroCenter and the Microsoft store. The Thinkpads are tough as nails. They are mil spec. Mine have been through stuff that killed my Macs in short order. Check this out.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/18/l...-in-new-spate/

Also here's a series of 4 YouTube videos. I've only linked the first one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lH07R0J9rY

[max99]

a kindle you cant read in the sunlight.....theyve just trashed their one unique selling point with this product.

[Dr. Drib]

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[OtterBooks]

Originally Posted by travfar

Finally a Kindle thant won't be sandpaper for the eyes.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/02/amazon-kindle-tablet/

Huh. Are you referring to books being painful? Yes, I suppose cat videos would be easier on the eyes then. Obviously you aren't referring to appearance of grain/image particle makeup. That would make zero sense.

Edit: man, I always wind up inadvertently posting something snarky right after a moderator notice.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by OtterBooks

Huh. Are you referring to books being painful? Yes, I suppose cat videos would be easier on the eyes then. Obviously you aren't referring to appearance of grain/image particle makeup. That would make zero sense.

C'mon... you just know the Keyboard Cat video is going to make that Amazon Nookle screen simply pop with coolness!

[BrowseTheStacks]

Reading these posts i feel like i am watching the film "Mean Girls - The Tech Edition"

[pdurrant]

The reason I can't get excited about a back-lit LCD-based ebook reader can be expressed in just two words.

Battery Life

[Lalilulelo]

Battery life and the fooking glare! There must be a new e-ink Kindle right around the corner, unless the electronic-ink loving, ereader addicted Jeff Bezos we know has suddenly gone bonkers and is willing to cede Amazon's reign of the e-ink market to B&N and Kobo and Sony. (Getting the new Sony if no Kindle before christmas)

Originally Posted by Blossom

Never heard of the company. Are they new? Thanks I'll keep an eye on it.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/18/len...o-3-pc-vendor/

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by Barty

I don't know why it shouldn't be . It has a capacItive touch screen so you can turn the page by just touching left/right sides.

The review article said

Some of the page-turning touch mechanics still needed a bit of work in the version I used.

[voracious71]

Originally Posted by JainaSJedi

Why? What's the big pull for this device?

Price is a big pull for many people. Maybe they want a tablet, but simply can't afford an iPad. Or their kids want one.

Granted, the NC doesn't have the functionality of an iPad but for a good sized group of people, it does pretty well. And this is in its unrooted state. It's a decent web browser, you can get email, it plays video and you can get Angry Birds on it.. Oh, and read too. I bring mine places that I don't want to risk my iPad or I know that I'll have to read in low light.

I'll be getting an Amazon tablet too- because I'm a crazy person with too much disposable income.

[djulian]

Originally Posted by Blossom

Probably not a brand sold around here which is why they are new to me. We have best buy and that's it.

I'm in Phoenix, and our Best Buys only have one very low-end model. They've been popping up in the Microsoft Stores, but it's not uncommon for folks to say, "Lenovo-who?"

I've got several family members/friends who work for IBM, which led to my initial interest.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

The reason I can't get excited about a back-lit LCD-based ebook reader can be expressed in just two words.

Battery Life

& eye strain

[JSWolf]

Lenovo used to make laptops for IBM under the ThinkPad name.

[JSWolf]

The thread title is misleading. It makes people thinka new eink reader is due in November when it's just an LCD tablet. Can a moderator please fix the thread title? Thanks.