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Who Do You Suppose Is Talking To Verizon?
Reports of Several E-Reading Device Manufacturers Talking With Verizon Thanks to lee1234 for pointing this out to us! The folks over at Yahoo Tech are reporting that as many as five different e-reading device makers have approached them about providing wireless service for their devices -- presumably, they're looking for something like Amazon has set up with Sprint. Quote:
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Of course, those keeping count know that any group of five e-reading device manufacturers would almost have to include Sony, especially if Amazon can't also be in the group. The pool has been expanding lately, but it's still a pretty small puddle. So, assuming Sony is most likely in there, who do you think the other four might be? Via Electronista.com EDIT: D'oh! I just realized that wallcraft had already posted this over here. Sorry 'bout that, I wasn't trying to ignore you. Last edited by NatCh; 04-03-2009 at 08:41 AM. Reason: Added attribution. |
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Maybe jetBook?
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04-03-2009, 12:01 AM | #3 |
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Astak, Readius, Jetbook and Plastic Logic.
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Readius is a good one
I'd like PL to be one of them as well, I suppose. |
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Readius is designed especially for mobile carriers . It's compact, light and can be used as phone. They have color prototype too. According to readius blog they will launch the device very soon. It's not so hard to guess which device will choose AT&T and Verizon.
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This is extremely disappointing news. It would, IMHO, be a disastrous mistake for providers for go with the (pretty much) US-only CDMA system, as opposed to the world-wide GSM standard.
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04-03-2009, 06:29 AM | #7 |
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In the GSM - UMTS world, I'd bet on Sony-Ericsson, iPhone and a brand new iRex reader (sorry for the DR owners, it'll be suddenly discontinued in the middle of an upgrade).
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It seems pretty clear that one of the group of 5 has to be Plastic Logic. Absent wireless, how would the newspaper partnerships flourish? Using your computer to download a half-dozen books every couple of weeks is no big deal, but people will not be happy if they have to do it daily -- and multiple times a day -- for their newspapers and magazines.
Speaking of which, The Economist reports that Time, Inc. is looking into digital distribution of some or all of its magazines, including following the U.S. cell phone paradigm of subsidizing the device in exchange for long-term subscription to multiple magazines. |
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Sony would almost certainly be one of the firms as Verizon is the provider of wireless broadband solutions for Sony notebooks.
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"Partnering" is no big deal, in my eyes. What will be interesting is if any of the e-book manufacturers get the same kind of deal that Amazon got. The other manufacturers aren't going to pick up a lot of interest if their users have to pay for their networks on a monthly basis. (I realize that the Kindle network isn't "free, as in beer", but I'm sure it would be less palatable to people to have to pay per month, rather than having the network built into the cost of the device.
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