Another Amazon/Mirasol Rumor

[andrys]

Originally Posted by dmaul1114

andrys,

I was only stating my uses--and looking over my post I may have not worded that very well....

Thanks for the clarifications, dmaul.

I'll just say that it's a utilitarian thing. I have an iPod but no iPhone and I won't pay for web access while out on the streets. I surf too much at home. So for street access, I use the Kindle for the various scenarios I mentioned. A lot of people on the Kindle forums who are not high-tech write about the myriad of ways they use the cellular wireless when out. It's just really useful for lookups, and it's pretty amazing for free when you can just get the info wherever you happen to be sitting. I've used it at town meetings to look up newspaper articles while they were speaking on a topic. Can't get out of the multi-tasking mode :-)

It is slow but workable. I don't mind slow for that purpose because I won't pay for webdata access when out. And if Amazon makes that browser speedy, people will use it more and they'll then almost surely charge for it on a tiered basis. So I'm hoping they don't get it too speedy %-) The mirasol screen would make speed more possible but I think that Sprint & AT&T throttle that.

The iRex 8" model, once they get the editing features added, should be pretty nice. Same for the Que but I read that it's disappointingly slow.

[dmaul1114]

Yeah, I don't pay for any on the go internet either as I'm at a computer at home or in the office all the time anyway.

So I'd be 100% fine with just having wifi on whatever tablet I get. I wouldn't carry it arround everywhere anyway, and would just take it places where I knew I'd have WiFi--tons of places around the city, hotels when traveling (stay where it's free for personal travel, work will pay for internet if its not free for business travel). etc.


As for mark up, yeah e-ink readers like the iRex, Que etc. are just too slow. Not just with the mark up, but the slow page turns are unbearable when needing to flip through a PDF to find a table etc. when referring to articles while writing a paper, class lecture etc. So I definitely want an LCD or other screen tech on any tablet I buy for the near instant refresh rate.