I wrote an article about the Kindle way back when. There’s a new one coming out and it’s not really that much better.
Too slow, too small, too expensive.
$489? Make it $150 and I’ll start to look at it. It should at least be competitive with an ipod, which can hold significantly more (and play musics, music etc etc. Why can’t the kindle combine all of these features?)
No panning, no zooming, no scrolling. Bah? The bigger screen is really nice and the textbook deals could make it great for students (maybe…a big maybe), but these half-hearted readers are just not enough to make way for a digital revolution in books.
As soon as they can halve the price, get it to at least 20 GBs of space, and add at least one non-reader functionality (music, video, file storage, wireless, email, web browser, etc etc), it’s just not enough.
IMHO as always.
