Wizpac txtr reader announced - the Kindle killer?

[gegkro]

Couple of questions for noonscomo:
do u reallt think it will be commercialized by the end of the year?
what about distribution outside germany? i live in Italy would it be possible for me to buy it and to use the website i understood will be the main reference for the txtr?

[Phogg]

Originally Posted by elena

EVVAI!

Originally Posted by kevindorsey

Another happy bounce and EWAI!

Shouldn't that be Up! Up! and EVVAI!

[TomBolini]

Originally Posted by gegkro

Couple of questions for noonscomo:
do u reallt think it will be commercialized by the end of the year?
what about distribution outside germany? i live in Italy would it be possible for me to buy it and to use the website i understood will be the main reference for the txtr?

Being in touch with 'em for the Italian market

[kamm]

Originally Posted by DaleDe

the companies main product is a sharing software program so it should work with multiple devices. Check their main page. TXTR.com

Which just strengthened my belief that it's a complete vaporware, nothing else - the whole reader page looks like a hoax, like someone took the whislist from a topic here and made a still in 3dsmax...

I think it'll end like so many other enthusiastic but amateur attempt - a software company suddenly figures out 'gee, all these big guys are blind, they don't understand what the people want but we *know* it' and starts working on it... then comes the first problems when you have to deal with hardware limitations, price/design compromises etc.

Anyone ever been involved in a process like that knows what I'm talking about - unless they are extremely well off it is highly unlikely that a newcomer small firm will break both Amazon and Sony... they might have smaller overhead but it also means lot less engineering resources (let alone expertise - Sony has infinite hardware design experience to dig from...)

Look at iRex: they did it and they ended up outside of a regular user's price range - and bringing a product to the market, the introduction etc is really expensive game and support is even more and when you don't really sell in numbers but you have to support all of them...

Here I hope I'm wrong but doubt it.

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by kamm

Which just strengthened my belief that it's a complete vaporware, nothing else - the whole reader page looks like a hoax, like someone took the whislist from a topic here and made a still in 3dsmax...

I think it'll end like so many other enthusiastic but amateur attempt - a software company suddenly figures out 'gee, all these big guys are blind, they don't understand what the people want but we *know* it' and starts working on it... then comes the first problems when you have to deal with hardware limitations, price/design compromises etc.

Anyone ever been involved in a process like that knows what I'm talking about - unless they are extremely well off it is highly unlikely that a newcomer small firm will break both Amazon and Sony... they might have smaller overhead but it also means lot less engineering resources (let alone expertise - Sony has infinite hardware design experience to dig from...)

Look at iRex: they did it and they ended up outside of a regular user's price range - and bringing a product to the market, the introduction etc is really expensive game and support is even more and when you don't really sell in numbers but you have to support all of them...

Here I hope I'm wrong but doubt it.

You did see the interview with them showing the TXTR off didn't you?

Here's a whole page of demos, this is not vapourware - http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...uery=txtr&aq=f

[etherspin]

im full of glee and smiles with so many readers being released/announced/prototyped OTHER than oppressive kindles, this is great, bluetooth,8gb minisd,and mobile network for downloads.. bring on all the competitors, i hope more and more epub and mobi devices with multi format support flood the market and gain market share before kindles wind up with mobile data in australia and europe

[kamm]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

You did see the interview with them showing the TXTR off didn't you?

Here's a whole page of demos, this is not vapourware - http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...uery=txtr&aq=f

No, I haven't, thanks for the link. Demo vs retail aside - there's a huge gap to fill - it does not address my concerns about its market viability... what's the rumored price tag?

[George]

bump.

eagerly awaiting news on this device.

[netseeker]

Originally Posted by hattwetle

On the Sony Reader and Amazon Kindle, you cannot annotate. However, the iRex iLiad can be written on with a stylus and uses a screen almost identical to the other two units. It also costs around 800...

This is only partially true, on the Sony PRS-700 you can annotate.