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Old 10-27-2010, 07:42 AM   #121
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Old 10-27-2010, 08:35 AM   #122
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I agree. So I want my A4 eink reader with dual flexible touchscreens with wifi and 3G and light as a feather ... NOW!
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Old 10-27-2010, 09:50 AM   #123
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Honey, I hate to break it to you but we women have been lying for years; size does matter! And I can tell you what to do with it! (oops, was that my inner dyke channeling my outside voice?)
and yet we have had to read your distain for colorful language in "the profanity thread"...how very ironic.
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Old 10-27-2010, 10:36 AM   #124
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7 inches is perfect for reading so maybe B&N is not crazy, the tablet options are secondary to the reader options. I would consider them nice to haves not the focus of the device, so let it be a reader focused tablet and move on.
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Old 10-27-2010, 11:41 AM   #125
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To illustrate Jobs point, consider the iPhone 4 with high resolution screen. It allows you to see a near desktop size view of a webpage, only with the text REALLY small. Try to click on a list of links and it the right one. It's difficult, unless you also had REALLY small fingers.

Now you can pinch to zoom, and you can design your app for small screens. But you can't have all the functionality of a 10" app in a 7" (half the size) screen. Not for all types of apps.

Is the screen size enough of an improvement over phone sized screens to support new app development, and then another app development effort for 10" screens? Time will tell.

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Why not wish for the not-yet-possible, a device that changes size according to the needs of the reader ....
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Old 10-27-2010, 12:02 PM   #127
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Yep a stretch to zoom eReader and roll it up into a ball and put it in your pocket when done.
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Old 10-27-2010, 01:28 PM   #128
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Yep a stretch to zoom eReader and roll it up into a ball and put it in your pocket when done.
multi-sized, 1cm in yer pocket .... stretch carefully using its touch screen ...





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Old 10-27-2010, 01:32 PM   #129
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Old 10-27-2010, 02:22 PM   #130
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No, have the display a tiny holographic projector on your glasses, aimed at your eyeballs. Nobody else sees anything, but you see a fifty inch wide panorama screen.
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Old 10-27-2010, 02:28 PM   #131
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No, have the display a tiny holographic projector on your glasses, aimed at your eyeballs. Nobody else sees anything, but you see a fifty inch wide panorama screen.
Why bother with that, just insert a few electrodes into the brain and wala!
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Old 10-27-2010, 02:30 PM   #132
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Electrodes? Ha!

Just hold some printed text up in front of your face and transmit the information using light!

Oh, wait.

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That's not so far in the future you unbeliever!
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Old 10-27-2010, 02:43 PM   #134
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No touchscreen, no color.
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That's cool looking. What became of it? The video is almost 3 years old.
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