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I really wish the Kindle team had more imagination. It's a tablet designed for reading enthusiasts-- what about making one for writing enthusiasts? Imagine a
by sebular 10y ago
I really wish the Kindle team had more imagination. It's a tablet designed for reading enthusiasts-- what about making one for writing enthusiasts?
Imagine a very affordable, portable laptop with week-long battery life, completely free of distractions like youtube.
It writes. It reads. It sends emails. That's it. Maybe as a stretch, they could quietly make it attractive to the tech community with a Unix-compatible shell and SSH ability. Call it the Kindle TypeLighter.
You're welcome, Amazon. I'll accept my royalty payments in personal check.
EDIT: Before anyone says anything about refresh rates, there's plenty of electronic ink technologies that are more than capable of supporting the rates needed to rapidly add characters to the screen. This thing, for example: http://www.dasung.com.cn/ http://www.dasung.com.cn/
- galistoca 10y agoThey probably already thought about it ten years ago and probably working on it. It's not some groundbreaking and original new idea you're suggesting, it's natural that once you're able to read you want to write. I at least had the same thought the first day I bought my first kindle. Probably the reason we don't have it is because of implementation details.
- Erwin 10y agoYou can buy this Sony thing right now: http://www.sony.com/electronics/digital-paper-notepads/dpts1 http://www.sony.com/electronics/digital-paper-notepads/dpts1 -- thin A4 display.
- ghaff 10y agoIt looks interesting if it works as advertised. (The reviews seem a bit mixed.) But at $799 you'd need to have a pretty compelling use case (like reading an annotating a lot of PDF journal articles) to justify it vs. just annotating articles on a tablet.