03-09-2010, 04:54 AM
Grieve Wrote:that's the same argument they made about the iPhone ("I don't need my phone to do more than make calls!"). And that turned out pretty well.
Who is they, iphone was hardly the first smartphone. Its just the first toy one that got really big.
The point is paying 800 bucks (plus a data plan) for an e reader (which is what you need for it to actually take advantage of its other than e reader features with any efficacy) that doesn't fill any particularly usefull niche is silly.
If someone gave me one i'd probably play with it, but once the novelty wore off it would be gathering dust in the corner with my useless ipod touch I won. "yay, a music player that sacrifices the ability to hold more than a fraction of my music library"