book reader or PDF reader or PDA

[Susan Macchia]

Jason Joines <support at bus.okstate.edu> wrote:

>> On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Jason Joines wrote:
>>
>>>     This Sony Reader (
>>> http://products.sel.sony.com/pa/prs/reader_specs.html ) looks promising
>>> but it's not out yet, a bit small, and probably will be very expensive.
>>> I can do without their proprietary format support and mp3 playback as
>>> well.  Doesn't mention what it runs either.
>>
>> I recently had the opportunity to play with a friend's Nokia 770 tablet.
>>
>> Its about the size of a shirt pocket, runs Linux, has WiFi built-in, etc.
>> You can get evince for it. Of course, its more than just a ebook reader
>> but the size and weight would be perfect for what you want. There's an SDK
>> for it and a boatload of applications ported (or in the process of being
>> ported).
>>
>> Nokia 770 page on Nokia US site: http://www.nokiausa.com/770
>>
>> Nokia 770 apps list: http://maemo.org/maemowiki/ApplicationCatalog2006
>>
>>
>>
>> Im planning to get one soon myself!

This really shows us what the future of mobile computing/connectivity may be.  Both the mobile phone and PDA market could converge to a device like this, especially as WiFi becomes more widely available.  What a cool world we live in!

I look forward to replacing my Treo with something like this, when the time is right of course. I am too cowardly to be an early adopter. ;) 

And I do hope Linux becomes the defacto OS...

-- Susan