[opendtv] Re: speaking of truly troubled media ...

I read books on my phone, with only a 3" diagonal screen. I wish the display was just slightly larger for that, but still keeping mostly a form factor I could clip on my belt as a phone.
I need reading glasses anyway so it doesn't really make that much difference to me holding it at a short arms length.
I think I missed a post here since I'm not sure which NYT article is being discussed. But, speaking of Kindle, I saw an article yesterday stating some authors guild was trying to say the kindle was not allowed to legally use text-to-speech to read the books because that qualified as a public performance and was not covered under the book copyright.
Anybody still believe our IP laws are sensible? Anybody ever dreamed of being a pirate? 

- Tom


Craig Birkmaier wrote:

At 10:10 AM -0800 2/10/09, John Willkie wrote:
Bigger (and more resolute) seems to always be better to me. I suspect you'd 
feel the same way were the iPhone screen larger than Kindle's.



It is a trade-off John.
The NYTimes article you found talks about 3 screens, one of which is mobile. The trade-off is that my iPhone fits into a pocket and I can take it anywhere. If it were the size of the Kindle that would be a big problem.
That being said, I believe there is a gaping hole in the marketplace for a somewhat larger mobile device with something like a 7 inch diagonal screen. This device "could" include a phone, but I think it would make more sense as an iPod Touch than a phone. It would be a game player, Internet browser (when WiFi is available), a personal music and video player, and would work better than the current iPod Touch as "electronic paper" (i.e. Kindle).
I like big screens too, but there is a lot of elegance and practicality in a small device that is highly portable.
By the way, I almost NEVER do e-mail on my iPhone, although this is a very popular feature for traveling business folks. But I do have it configured so that I can receive messages if I need to when away from my notebook computer. 

Regards
Craig



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