06-10-2009, 09:08 PM | #16 | |
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So yeah, the hardware is becoming faster, storage is becoming greater, soon the production of the screens will be increased with less overhead. |
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06-11-2009, 04:17 AM | #17 |
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But why would it have "hard to press" buttons? It's the same hardware as the CyBook Gen3, which certainly doesn't have any such issue.
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06-11-2009, 05:26 AM | #18 | |
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If Interead are concentrating on getting this into supermarkets and other outlets, they aren't going to care too much about firmware and what the 'hardcore' ebook crowd think. So long as you can read your books it'll be good enough. In answer to the other post I think the reason for the hard to press buttons is that though the electronic hardware is the same as the Cybook, the buttons are part of the case. The Cooler is not an industrial design exercise, it's a straightforward 'homage' to the iPod styling. The difference here is that the iPod will have gone through hundreds of design iterations to get it right, whereas the Cool-er will have been designed and tooled up in a few weeks. It's a reasonable strategy - all of these choices have been made to get the device to the market quickly and at a good price. The problem is that Interead have not developed anything unique, so they're vulnerable to any of the third party no-name brands in Hong Kong and Taiwan taking the same Netronix hardware and banging out a 'Cool-ER clone'. Unless they have some sort of exclusivity license with Netronix, they could find their brand value lost in a few month's time by even cheaper copies, with similar styling and identical functionality. That is a big risk, as without the end-to-end chain from writer to reader the added value of 'yet another bookstore' is lost. I have no idea what their business strategy is, but my feeling is that they are going to have to work very hard to differentiate their product and evolve it rapidly to keep ahead of the market. They've said as much in interviews, but the real test will be to see if they're capable of delivering incremental changes thoughout their offerings at the same time as introducing the products to new markets, promoting their service and servicing existing customers. That's a lot of balls to juggle. |
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06-11-2009, 07:43 AM | #19 |
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That's one reason, though, that I am looking forward to somebody from here posting a review. Because to me, the placement does look similar to the Cybook - and I didn't find that either awkwardly placed. It is harder to press than the Kindle, though - so I'd love to find out of 'hard-to-press' is actually 'this will hurt your fingers after a few pages' or just 'not as soft as the Kindle'. The former is bad, the second is absolutely fine from my perspective.
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06-11-2009, 09:59 AM | #21 | |
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The Epson chip only add some method to refrech only a portion of the panel instead of the whole panel like for the Apollo(PRS500/Cybook GEN3) or the Metronome (PRS505.) But I can't understand how they could manage to sell a color eBook reader at less than $300 when they don't even ship their current device and it's price is at about $250/270... (and it seems to me that even the cases is not an exclusivity of cool-er, I don't remember where but I'm pretty sure that I already saw such cases on other "cybook" clones) (And I don't understand how they can claim and be proud of making this in only 3 weeks... Saying this is just a demonstration on how long they work on the product and what they do in it: absolutely nothing except design the Cool-er logo!) Last edited by Godzil; 06-11-2009 at 10:04 AM. |
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