Alternative to laptop & ISP
tscottme
Amazon.com It's pretty darn great. It's purpose is to read books, of
course. But the device, about as thick as a copy of Sports Illustrated, has
wireless delivery of books in about 60 seconds. It also has a very usable
web browser with no-charge web browsing through the Springt 3G network.
That means for the $259 purchase price you can have unlimited nationwide web
surfing with no monthly data charge or ISP account needed. OK, you can't
watch YouTube videos on it and it doesn't play movies, but it does have an
MP3 player built in, but for weather radar or text pages it works very well.
Barns & Noble ahs their eBook reader called the Nook for the same price. It
is color screen, has a data card slot, has wireless book delivery over
AT&T's 3G network and also includes buil-in wi-fi. However, it does not
have a web browser. It uses an open-source OS so maybe someone will add a
web browser later.
These devices are not yet mainstream and the competition between them is
just now heating up so the prices will come down and the capabilities will
increase. I was so impressed with the Kindle I bought one for my own
Christmas present.
--
Scott
Liberals are America's Death Panel.
"A liberal is a person who sees a fourteen-year-old girl performing live sex
acts onstage and wonders if she's being paid the minimum wage [or has
affordable health insurance]."
-- Irving Kristol
Rocky
>
> Barns & Noble ahs their eBook reader called the Nook for the same price. It
> is color screen, has a data card slot, has wireless book delivery over
> AT&T's 3G network and also includes buil-in wi-fi. However, it does not
> have a web browser. It uses an open-source OS so maybe someone will add a
> web browser later.
Scott,
What you call a "web browser" is probably limited to WAP so you might
want to call it a wap browser.
BTW WAP is used for internet access on cheap cellphones like Scott has.
amg1957
> I've had a chance to play with a friend's KindleeBookreaderfrom
> Amazon.com It's pretty darn great. It's purpose is to read books, of
> course. But the device, about as thick as a copy of Sports Illustrated, has
> wireless delivery of books in about 60 seconds. It also has a very usable
> web browser with no-charge web browsing through the Springt 3G network.
> That means for the $259 purchase price you can have unlimited nationwide web
> surfing with no monthly data charge or ISP account needed. OK, you can't
> watch YouTube videos on it and it doesn't play movies, but it does have an
> MP3 player built in, but for weather radar or text pages it works very well.
>
> is color screen, has a data card slot, has wireless book delivery over
> AT&T's 3G network and also includes buil-in wi-fi. However, it does not
> have a web browser. It uses an open-source OS so maybe someone will add a
> web browser later.
>
> These devices are not yet mainstream and the competition between them is
> just now heating up so the prices will come down and the capabilities will
> increase. I was so impressed with the Kindle I bought one for my own
> Christmas present.
>
> --
>
> Scott
>
> Liberals are America's Death Panel.
>
> "A liberal is a person who sees a fourteen-year-old girl performing live sex
> acts onstage and wonders if she's being paid the minimum wage [or has
> affordable health insurance]."
> -- Irving Kristol
The main purpose for a ebook reader is too read electronic books. It
does not take the place of real books. As books from the 19 century
are falling apart now, Google and other companies have scanned them
and made them available for free. The 19 dollar book you just bought
is probably available for free on the internet because someone scanned
it. So ebook readers are just another book source, along with Thrift
Shops and library book sells. Its a real deal if you consider the
millions of free ebooks available.
Rocky
"tscottme" <blah...@blah.net> wrote in message
news:hej388$27e$1...@aioe.org...
> I've had a chance to play with a friend's Kindle eBook reader from
> Amazon.com
> These devices are not yet mainstream and the competition between them is
> just now heating up so the prices will come down and the capabilities will
> increase. I was so impressed with the Kindle I bought one for my own
> Christmas present.
I found something today that will give your eBook reader a run for your
money:
"E-readers to face tough fight against color tablets"
January 8, 2010 06:00 AM ET
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9143344/E_readers_to_face_tough_fight_against_color_tablets
BTW I happen to have a color tablet and I won't even consider getting an
eBook reader.