Rooting a tablet is one thing but when you root an eInk device it's not like you can magically start watching videos on it, for example; it still has all the physical limitations of
every other eInk device.
My Nook turns pages as fast (maybe faster now with this latest 1.3 update) as
any other eInk device.
Once the pages are cleared out the nook is a fast as
any other eink device.
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
If they'd drop their damn mutant DRM, I think sales would soar — and so would their eBook sales to owners of
other eInk devices that use «standard» Adobe DRM.
Not exact matches
My experience with
other tablets is that they are unreadable outside, whereas
eInk devices become even easier to read outside.
My current eReader is a Sony PRS - T1 but what I wrote would also apply to the Kindle 3/4 Touch (not Fire), B & N Nook and a few
other eInk -
devices in comparison to the iPAD 3.
And there are plenty of
other possibilities, including even the possibility of a dual screen tablet /
eInk combo, but we'd rather see Amazon focus on making each of these very different
devices, as well as the Kindle phone that will surely follow, as good as it can be.
At present, the eReader market is dominated by two screen technologies: the grayscale
eInk displays found on the Kindle and a few
others and the color LCD panels you'll see on
devices like the Nook Color.
On the
other hand, don't kid yourself into thinking a color
eInk device will replace a tablet.
IRex says it is on track to have a color version of the
device by 2011, something that
other vendors, which rely on technology from
eInk, a subsidiary of Prime View International of Taiwan, say is years away.
The ability to annotate, highlight, and share one's thoughts with
others have been limited in these
eink devices because of the slowness in which
eink renders.
What the new development of software platforms also tell me is that existing
eink devices can not support these software advancements and that the new generation of digital book readers will exist, even in their dedicated
device forms, in something
other than the linux based
eink devices that we know of today.
As with all
eInk technology there is still that kind of photo negative look when turning pages (but this only happens when it refreshes every 6 pages), it is less noticeable on this
device as the page turns are faster than on
other eReaders including the new Kindles.