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Capt'n Corrupt
2010-01-13 , 13:46
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I remember seeing ereader.com before, but didn't know that they had an android client (or any client for that matter). That's good news.
I'd be extremely surprised if the client didn't work on for the tablets with the larger screens. If the client works for the G1, and the Droid, then it can already handle different resolutions and scale it's type according to physical screen dimensions. It's not simple scaling, or the droid type would be ~2x smaller. Since the tablets have a very similar aspect ratio, the only added challenge would be to handle a non-static physical screen size. The thing is, a developer would literally have to go out of his way to do this (including constants for page width when wrapping text), and it would be easier to see where having a non-static physical screen size would be handy especially for many devices. Half of me thinks that they're just pumping generated HTML through the webkit renderer: that's what I would do as its quick, easy and solves the problem quite elegantly.
$299 +/- $50 subsidized sounds much more reasonable. Of course there's still time to be surprised yet.
I'm interested to see what apple brings to the table. The speculated price is $1000, and there are rumors that apple is buying up 10" LCD and OLED screens. I'm thinking that apple is going for more of a notebook appeal with the iSlate which could make it very enticing. There are a lot of slate PCs on the market that would be much more attractive if there prices weren't insane (I know, I've looked). Of course, I'm guessing that apple will re-define the OS experience rather than just plopping a traditional OS on the unit. I'm pretty sold on the Adam as it stands, but I will certainly wait to see all of the offerings before I decide, and the apple tablet could find it's way into my collection.
Apple has also been engineering a large datacenter, so it's anyones guess what they're up to. If they didn't routinely practice tech-despotism, I would be more interested in their product. However, it seems that every move they make is to restrict choice, and I don't like the idea of living without at least some open-software. We'll have to see.
The idea of an OLED display *is* very interesting, but in a very different way than the PixelQi display of the Adam. I think OLED would be awesome for everything except reading for extended periods (though this may not be the case if the brightness is dialed way down). Certainly the power drain would be very low, and the colour reproduction un-beatable. However, I'm guessing that the Adam will actually beat it in this feature.
If apple included 3D shutter tech (optional of course) on the tablet, and developer APIs and hardware to take advantage of this, not to mention awesome battery life, with pen input, I would be sold day 1.
You're list is just like my list, only a little more liberal. Here's mine:
Adam
Apple tablet
}:^)~
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