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Old 01-19-2009, 03:49 PM   #61
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Has anyone heard what their planned price point is? I saw this in the Boston Globe today and was surprised that its being heralded as "cheap" (as in inexpensive).
When the device was announced, it was told that the device will be 'priced competitively to Kindle' or something like that. I think the phrase might have given people the impression that it will have a similar price as Kindle. If it is the case, it can be considered 'cheap' since it has bigger screen than Kindle.

But I think it can mean anything depending on the basis for comparison. For example, if they charge the same price per square inch of the screen, the device will be much more expensive than Kindle but they can still claim it is 'priced competitively'.
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Old 01-19-2009, 05:29 PM   #62
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i'm not sure it is being heralded as cheap... they seem to be pointing out rather heavily the differences between the proposed specs and the actual specs. so perhaps in addition to not being colour and not being flexible, it will also not be cheap. they do say plastic logic wouldn't comment on the price.
Oops...I didn't read carefull...you are correct, they were commenting on early expectations as to what was now the case.
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Well thank you. I didn't know of the new version.
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Has anyone heard what their planned price point is? I saw this in the Boston Globe today and was surprised that its being heralded as "cheap" (as in inexpensive).
I hear $400 being bounced around when this was initially announced. If that is the price I will be one of the first in line. But I am not hopeful.

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anyway,the longer they wait,the greater the competition, the lower they'll have to price their reader.

I just hope the battery life will be great,and it can display a4-like papersizes and comicbooks very well!

With the slower speed of the e-ink displays, one could easily equip this device with larger and cheaper flash memory (in the likes of 4 to 8GB),without raising the manufacturing price by more than $10 (compared to 128/512Mb flash memory).
I think the extra storage space will be needed if PDF, and PPT become the main fileformats.(10-50MB per book/presentation,compared to 1-2MB per LRF book).
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Another good video here



Looks like they fixed the issue with the line defects and this version seems to have a working operating system, unlike the one shown before Christmas. The touchscreen interface works really well, the delay is minimal, and a large number of files are supported.

Unfortunately it is not out until january 2010 at the earliest which makes useless for me as I need it now. Oh well.
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