Re: iPod Touch

Chris <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.culture.literature.ebook-community
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Daniel P. B. Smith wrote:

> I've always felt that to date general-purpose "computers" of 
> any size remain usability disasters. All my experiences with 
> dedicated portable devices (calculators, cameras, mp3 players) 
> have been good, whereas all the general-purpose "pocket PCs" 
> I've seen have been jokes and very expensive jokes at that. But 
> the iPod Touch has changed my mind. It's a general-purpose 
> device all of whose multiple functions really are as 
> well-designed and easy to use as single-function devices.

It seems unfortunate that it took this long, because I think it 
always *should* have been this way.

I don't have an iPod Touch and thus can't try any of the reading 
apps. What is battery life like? Have any of the apps tried to go 
to maximum contrast so that you can read with the backlight off?

... Chris

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