Apple has effed itself with it's OS. They should buy Palm, and WebOS. I'm either waiting for the Microsoft Courier, or whatever tablet comes out with WebOS.

Depends on how you look at it. I'm sure Apple sees it as iPhone OS = App Store = profits! Lock-in can be a very profitable route if people buy this thing. I'm just not sure they will.

I was gonna get one for the wife,but after finally getting all the specs and stuff I don't think I'm gonna waste my money.Maybe after they upgrade the ports,give you expandable memory,and add an actual O S,but till then I think its a joke.

If you get to constantly LOL @ me in the DC, this is where I get to LOL @ you.

Courier, as I've pointed out plenty of times, is vaporware at best.

And webOS has, thus far, gone nowhere. Android has a better market share than webOS.

Apple has not effed itself with its OS. It's simply merging the desktop and mobile computing platforms. You'll see them continue to do this until the touch/tablet idea really takes off. Their OS has positioned them as the leader. It's the one thing they really, really have going for them.

After reading some commentary online from many non-Apple-fanbois, I think this device is going to be a hit. It's more revolutionary than it seems at first blush.

I think given 2-3 revisions, it'll be exactly what I need.

Kindle 2 or Nook is the way i'm leaning

both have the improved Ink contrast and have had firmware improvements to tweak the bugs.

if you want the additional size i imagine the kindle Dx will drop in price in awhile.

Not trying to yank anyones chain, but why are these Kindle devices better than holding a real book??

I just thought of a really great application in my life for one of these: a kitchen computer, which I need. Currently I use my laptop, but this would be pretty sweet. Basically I need to be able to store edit/print recipes, browse the web, and control my music. The size would be perfect as well.

it's not

but a kindle holds 1,500 books with the ability to buy books immediately at the touch of a button. As they mature they will do other things beside being ebooks as well.

eventually they will replace laptops completely

they kind of do that already

the Kindle Dx allows for notes for .pdf files and you can upload you recipes to it through a computer if you convert them to .pdf. It's browser is limited right now but it has one. i think Amazon throttles the internet access to prevent much real browsing.

by the end of the year Asus is coming out with a couple of different models which are gonna allow 3G and Wifi with a real browser.

ah....ok, thanks. Definately would save on shelf space.

So it connects to the internet then?

ASUS DR-950 ereader live shots released

By Chris Davies on Friday, Jan 22nd 2010

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The DR-950 has a 1024 x 768 resolution display, supporting PDF, ePub and HTML files among others, and offers text-to-speech and RSS. There’s also 2-4GB of onboard storage – with an SD card slot to augment that – together with a USB port and 3.5mm headphone jack, and ASUS aren’t ruling out squeezing WiMAX into the 0.35-inch thick frame.

We’re not quite so ready as Electricpig to declare the touchscreen layer interference-free, and will want to have a closer look (at a real unit, not press shots) to figure out whether it blurs the E Ink panel or not. Still, it’s another interesting looking ereader; let’s just hope the Apple iPad doesn’t sweep the bottom out of the segment next Wednesday.
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The kindle has a free cell phone type connection to the internet provided by Amazon to people who buy the kindle.

other ebooks are coming out with true wifi abilities

cheaper than the DX?


Asus Ereaders Could Be Launching Much Earlier Than Expected

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The DR-950 and DR-570 weren't expected to go on sale until the very end of the year, but Digitimes is quoting sources as placing the two ereaders on a second quarter release schedule. Asus has commented they haven't yet started producing enough of the ereaders for them to launch, but the initial Q4 release date is looking more and more unrealistic, since photos of the 950 looking very polished turned up on Asus' UK Flickr account the other day. [Digitimes]

UPDATED: Electricpig has dished out the UK pricing and availability deets, with an April launch slated for the DR-950, and a rough £250 cost ($403).