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Product line is too confusing as per kindle, seems a bit contrived. For example 8.9 version retina-like display resolution yearns to be model "hey we can do iPa
by perlpimp 13y ago
Product line is too confusing as per kindle, seems a bit contrived. For example 8.9 version retina-like display resolution yearns to be model "hey we can do iPad too".
I can see these things being sold at Walmarts/K-marts etc to family dads that often go out of town by car on frequent business trips. I'd totally replace pay per view with this thing.
Material quality looks sketchy too. That garish reflective plastic at the back at the top of the beveled edge. I think the design looked very cool on paper...
I love my kindle paperwhite, ipad and iphone5.
Kindle fire can be another device I can toss into my backpack when travelling but I am already thinking of replacing my iPad with iPad mini and get rid of to reduce overall travel weight.
my 2c.
- sliverstorm 13y ago8.9 version retina-like display resolution yearns to be model "hey we can do iPad too" Yeah! It sure is annoying when everybody realizes high-res screens are good, and put them in lots of different devices! I hate it when that happens, don't you?
- hxc 13y agoanalog for life!
- glogla 13y agoFortunately, we still have all the 15" 1366*768 notebooks, so there's that.
- benologist 13y agoFortunately, we also have all the 17" 1366x768 notebooks, so there's that.
- ZeroGravitas 13y agoAnd iPad minis...
- lmm 13y agoI've found that now I have a big phone (or small tablet) I don't use my kindle. You can cover the range with something like that (what I really want is a 6" phone/tablet, but it seems no-one's making those, so the choice is either a 5" big phone or a 7" tablet-that-makes-phone-calls like that ASUS thing) and a light 11" "ultrabook", which means one or two fewer devices to lug around.
- sampo 13y agoGalaxy Note II has a 5.55" screen, it rounds to 6, right? And Galaxy Note 3 has 5.7". Close enough? And then there seems to be Galaxy Mega with 6.3" and 5.8" screens.
- lmm 13y agoWhat I have now is a Note II; I think of it as 5" - as a European I don't really have an instinct for inches, so maybe it's "really 6"". But either way it feels like there's a big size gap between something like this and then the nexus 7/asus fonepad/etc., where really I want something that's halfway between those.
- reinmen 13y agoget a galaxy mega or sony xperia ultra, both 6.3in there is a gap to a nexus 7, but not a big one. for me they are far too large, but try them..
- JoeAltmaier 13y agoIts some law of product ecosystems - a device will pop up to fill every niche across the range, at $50 intervals. Not a bad thing; you just have to pick and choose to tile together a set that works for you.
- dnissley 13y agoSony's Xperia Z Ultra is 6.4".