Comments on: Kindle vs iSlate – Review of Apple iSlate patent

By: waymoregooder

waymoregooder — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:18:27 +0000

…think of the educational possibilities with an apple e-reader!
+updated text books
+all textbooks in one spot (lightweight)
+ability to keep all text books for future reference
+did i say lightweight!
+sharing information-if you can play air hockey with 2 iphones, think of how you could share notes and thoughts with two apple “i-slates”
I wish I was in school just to use the tech today~my kids are lucky…sure hope apple hears this!

By: Jia Li

Jia Li — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:09:33 +0000

For reading novels, I prefer the kinds that kill trees however, having a device with an e-book function would be nice. My interest in an e-reading device is based on business needs.

From a potential user’s perspective, I want to be able to read PDF files, page by page as if they were printed on sheets of 8X11 paper (with decent font sizes) and I want to be able to carry the content of large PDF files on a light-weight device without a lot of hassle. Graphs and charts should maintain their format as in the PDF files. Searchability would be essential. Storage space, battery life are important features as well. Ability to upload files with USB sticks is essential.

I am tired of trying to read large documents on my laptop. I am going blind from reading texts and scrolling every couple of paragraphs and it doesn’t seem like an 8X11 electronic device for reading would be too much to ask for. If such a iSlate comes to market, it will immediately dominate the e-book marketplace if the price is right.

By: lisan

lisan — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:28:06 +0000

It is islate because people used to write on slates, or tablets, and repeatedly used the same slate for multiple documents/pages. Granted they had to wipe the slate clean to have a new page but seems to make the name islate very intuitive.

By: Marauder

Marauder — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:36:45 +0000

Dont think batteries will be a problem since its size
allow more space for larger ones. What bugs me is
that you need an external mouse and keyboard even
though you can use the screen but with reduced area.
The name also is not so good, i would have chosen
something more intuitive : like itop or iscreen but not
islate. Sounds like islave.

By: Bic

Bic — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 01:50:53 +0000

Assuming the iSlate is an LCD screen, I think it will have the same problem as reading books on current 10″ netbooks — it’s just not as comfortable on the eyes and batteries to read books on that kind of screen.

By: KenJr

KenJr — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:06:01 +0000

Good logic here. Well written. At least we can be sure that, when the iSlate hits the marketplace, it won’t get nook’d in the manner of B&N’s device, that e-reader that went to market as an unfinished and very much flawed product.