What if Sony comes out with some awesome
color eink device with wireless capabilities and an integrated light but I have 200 Kindle proprietary ebooks?
There may be millions of Android apps out there, but it's unlikely that the vast majority of them would work on your device or on any
other eink device running Android 4.0.4
To be fair to Eason, it has a natty offering, a 6 - inch, touch - screen
eInk device with weeks of battery life and storage for 4,000 titles.
I think that would help to put a lot of people's minds at ease since a lot of the apps out there will not function properly on the various
eink devices currently running older versions of Android.
On a side note there are plenty of
good eink devices out there, and some of the normal tablets work pretty well for magazines and pdfs as well.
Apparently they believe (likely correctly) that most people
buying eInk devices basically just want to read books.
I mean they looked nice, but I was perfectly happy with my Kindle 3 (now the Kindle Keyboard) and my
older eInk devices (Kindle 2, Cybook Opus & Sony PRS - 505) and saw no real need... more >
I have heard that multiple users on
various eink devices have experienced significant difficulties running the Kindle app.
My experience with other tablets is that they are unreadable outside, whereas
eInk devices become even easier to read outside.
Annotation features are far more developed and functional on tablets, than they are on
dedicated eInk devices at this time.
I'm not saying that other media forms will kill anything, I'm not even saying that amazon will stop
selling eink devices anytime soon.
It looks like they managed to control better the way the eInk micro encapsulated droplets are coming together because if you look closely at continuous black surfaces, they have a more uniform coverage while in the case of older
generation eInk devices the coverage has more gaps.
As for computers, I don't know if you're
tried eink devices yet (like Kindle and Nook), but they are almost just like paper.
ereader remains the
only eink device usable with multi-column papers and text books.
The Onyx Boox Max 2 Professional is an
interesting eInk device — one with a 13.3 - inch touchscreen complete an HDMI port allowing use as a secondary display, a first according to the company.
Amazon wants to ramp up production of 9.7 ″ eInk screens for a dual screen LCD
+ eInk device.
But if they're planning to have a color
eInk device sit between the Touch and the Fire it seems like they're splitting hairs.
That leads to reason # 2: Amazon, B&N and the other
eInk device vendors aren't encouraging third - party app development.
There is no perfect reading app despite the iPad having multiple advantages
over eink devices.
The new Kobo eReader offered through Borders is a stylized, easy - to - use,
affordable eInk device that comes pre-loaded with the Borders eBook app.
That said, it won't hold as much of a charge as a
typical eInk device (i.e. Kobo, Sony, or the famous Kindle) which can generally hold a charge for reading for weeks (I've heard 2 - 3 weeks is typical, whereas mine lasts within about 1.5 weeks), whereas this would require (in typical conditions) daily charges.
Page turns are extremely fast, and while you do get something of a «flash» as the entire page of text changes at once, the screen does not turn black between every page, as you see on the Kindle and
earlier eInk devices.
While people who previously owned eReaders mostly note the improved contrast, those who didn't have
eInk device before are very enthusiastic about how comfortable it is for prolonged reading.
Perhaps you aren't aware that there are dozens, if not hundreds, of apps («Active Content») for
Kindle eink devices, and new ones show up continuously.
But if the Ectaco device is any indication I don't think a
color eInk device from Amazon will be a game - changer.
If there's a future
for eInk devices it must be adding capabilities, not doing as Amazon did with the Paperwhite, removing them.
With «open andriod»
eInk devices becoming available, Amazon is going to have to do something special with the Kindle or lose their lead.
I don't think the iPad is a Kindle killer (or
dedicated eink device) because I think the primary purpose of the iPad is not long form narrative reading.
I plan to keep using my HD + — which I already use more than my iPad — but want a
good eink device.
I could handle a 6 ″
eInk device with Snapdragon quad - core, 2Gb RAM, 16 GB ROM, sdcard, capacitive touch, bluetooth, mic and speakers and a SIM card called Ultimate II.