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JM
Holy crap, I'm drooling over this!
Gorgeous touch screen eInk reader for $149 with 3G and $99 for Wifi.
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
Looks great
JM
Jon Miller-
I AM.CANADIAN
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That's what you're going to comment on? The Kindle Touch?
Um... yes. The Kindle Fire is nice, but its a stripped down tablet - give me a Samsung Galaxy Tab. The Kindle Touch is just beautiful and a perfect ereader. For one it has eInk instead of LCD.
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
Yeah, I got to second that. You are drooling over the $99 reader when they are offering a dual core IPS color tablet with high DPI for $100 more?
Get your priorities straight man!
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E-ink. Ugh. Yes, it's better for reading than an LCD, but it's such a backwards technology. It's 2011, man; screens should have colorful, moving pictures on them.
It's a freaking book! I'm not 12, so I don't need my books to have colorful moving pictures on them.
I own a Kindle 2G. It is by far better than any LCD based tablet for reading. No contest. I don't care about a tablet at the moment - I have an Android phone.
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
And that's the other problem I have with e-ink e-readers. They're single-function items. At least the prices are coming down, though.
I prefer single function readers.
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
I want one device to rule them all.
Kindle >>> Tablets for reading. By far.
I've gone back to using my DS as an e-reader.
Well, it probably has a slightly nicer screen than the Nook Simple Touch. I have always prefered Kindle e-ink to everyone else. Don't know why it looks better, but it seems to.
On the other hand, if it still has screen flashes on every page turn, I would prefer the Nook (which flashes only after multiple page turns), assuming that B&N match the $99 price.
Not that I would buy one, of course. I would take the Fire.
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Why do you need a touch screen on a reader?
And I'm not impressed with the Fire either. It's cheap, yes, but it's outdated.
I'm more interested in the $79 Kindle. I don't want a touch reader. My screen needs to be pristine.
You don't need touch, but its kinda nice. Allows for a smaller device and more screen real estate dedicated to the reading portion (though the new Kindle seems to have similar specs, IIRC).Originally Posted by onodera
And from videos it appears it doesn't have screen flashes every page.
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
The touch device is quite a bit heavier than the cheaper one,
$79 non-touch: 6.5" x 4.5" x 0.34", 5.98oz
$99 touch: 6.8" x 4.7" x 0.40", 7.5oz
Has less storage as well. 2 GB compared to 4 GB. And I dunno if this is just crap, but on Amazon they claim it has 1 month battery life (with wifi off) while touch has 2 months. I don't think it has X-ray either.
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
3G is also quite nice though.
It might be that the 79 one is the perfect size though (not sure exactly what one I have is, I got it a bit over a year ago).
JM
Jon Miller-
I AM.CANADIAN
GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.
So Amazon has caught up to Sony?
“As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
"Capitalism ho!"
Sony is still far behind everyone.
This.
I'm going to end up picking up the Kindle Touch 3G(without "Special Offers"). The Kindle Fire is targeted more at eating into the Nook Color's market rather than being a true tablet competitor, and in any event I have a Xoom.
Smaller and lighter, which appeals to me since I'm normally carrying my Kindle on hiking trips.Why do you need a touch screen on a reader?
With such viral bias, you're opinion is thus rendered useless. -Shrapnel12, on my "bias" against the SS.
I've never understood how God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion by faith — it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.
As I said, the touch kindle is larger and heavier compared to the non-touch...
Sony had the superior product last year, but not the superior market share.
“As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
"Capitalism ho!"
What product did they have last year?
I hope you're not referring to their e-readers...I have a buddy who has one and hates the thing. He got it because he's a PhD student and wanted to annotate PDFs, but regrets it immensely.
Then he would have likely regretted having the other readers as much or more.
“As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
"Capitalism ho!"
He likes his GF's Kindle 3 much more. No glare...smaller and lighter.
He must have gotten the Daily Edition. It's the only one larger than the bulky Kindle 3.
“As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
"Capitalism ho!"
Whoops, as I was. Still, the 3G radio is what I would like to have while on a logn distance hike, and the "regular" Kindle doesn't have it.
With such viral bias, you're opinion is thus rendered useless. -Shrapnel12, on my "bias" against the SS.
I've never understood how God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion by faith — it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.
I would like to get one of these tablet/ereader things but I just don't know which one is best.
What can make a nigga wanna fight a whole night club/Figure that he ought to maybe be a pimp simply 'cause he don't like love/What can make a nigga wanna achy, break all rules/In a book when it took a lot to get you hooked up to this volume/
What can make a nigga wanna loose all faith in/Anything that he can't feel through his chest wit sensation
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