Leland they cant just "make the screen bigger" as that is currently the largest size e-ink display in production at PVI.
I read elsewhere on engadget speculation that Amazon was shorting the stock on hand just to have a "sell out" for marketing. Its not the case. PVI has only so much capacity to produce the displays for everyone.
HP's Jon Rubenstein told us that his company wanted to veer in a new direction, and veer it surely did -- the HP Veer 4G will arguably be the smallest fully-functional smartphone on the market when it goes on sale May 15th.
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well the same board is being produced to power the other 9.7 inch e-ink display readers like the hanlin http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/hanlins-v9-e-book-reader-with-9-7-inch-e-ink-display-previewed/ and netronix http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/netronix-eb-600-and-eb-500-e-readers-spotted-at-computex/ and probably iRex 1000 http://www.irextechnologies.com/products so thats why the wifi is traced on the PCB.
Leland they cant just "make the screen bigger" as that is currently the largest size e-ink display in production at PVI.
I read elsewhere on engadget speculation that Amazon was shorting the stock on hand just to have a "sell out" for marketing. Its not the case. PVI has only so much capacity to produce the displays for everyone.