Why am I skeptic about Kindle 2?
Just finished reading Engadget’s post here.
I think it still looks away from what I would personally consider to be a perfect reading device.
a. Idea: Another personal portable device? That means, besides a music player, cellphone, laptop and a office desktop, I have to handle one ‘more’ portable electronics item when the prior ones can easily help me read books. Also, must mention that Kindle is capable of only presenting information in 16 shades of gray!
b. Interface: No touch-screen, responsiveness, although improved, still leaves more to be desired.
c. Looks: Well they matter, Apple has mastered aesthetics, Amazon needs a lesson or two. For the latest one liberal 7/10.
d. Pricing: Well, $349 and still books are to be purchased separately. I am a grad student and personally cannot justify to spent that amount on a ‘reading device’ when I already have a laptop and desktop to read books on. Maybe it turns out to be of more value to other people. Although, unlimited wireless for life is something innovative and appreciable.
Overall, I am not impressed but I must mention that I might as well be downplaying a ‘huge revolution’ – as they call it – here.
Later.
When Obama speaks Innovation… (Video)
- His theme becomes Technology
- He vows for an open internet (yeah, he was saying all this at Google !)
- He plans to have a C.T.O. (Chief Technology Officer) for U.S.A
- He wishes to double the federal grant for basic research for his country.
- He is threatened by the competition in Dubai, Dublin, Mumbai and the likes of them.
- He is up for strict anti-trust laws for promoting entrepreneurs.
- And he wants to see lights in “most of Africa, parts of Asia and some corners of America” on the some connectivity map of Google.
As much as I do not yet fully understand how the victory of Obama is going to change the world, as he claims of, but he is impressive and Hillary just isn’t. Maybe I am biased towards him because of all of his technological ambition getting in to me but what the heck!
See this video, if you want the full, one-hour-plus scoop.
Information Addict.
I hereby announce that I am an information addict. I like to review news websites (Jang, Geo, BBC Urdu, Google News) for same news item at least 3-4 times a day. I would run through all major geek places (slashdot, digg’s technology, BBC NEWS Technology, SciAm, CNET Reviews, Engadget and more) for news items and updates on what is happening around and then I use my Google Reader for getting ‘feeds’ from all these major places as well as a few more which I don’t even remember now and how can I forget about all the random blogs and the pages which I stumble upon…
Guess what, I am not very happy about it, I think it is troubling with my FOCUS and I have started to get bored quickly out of one thing, even when I am interested in it. It has made me overly multi-task and thus dragging me away from the task I am up to.
Somebody else experimenting similar effects?
