http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/Jan 27th 2010 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/Jan 27th 2010 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/
I'm glad someone else understand that. If I wanted to read books on something else I'd just do it on my laptop. The whole point of doing it on e-ink is to avoid the eye strain.]]>Jan 27th 2010 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/
Kindles e-ink is easy to read even at the beach. The network is free, the books are relatively cheap, it's smaller and uses barely any power.

Gotta go with the Kindle for reading books. Just wish e-ink would refresh quicker. Nook is nice too if they iron the kinks out.]]>Jan 27th 2010 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/Jan 27th 2010 6:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/Jan 27th 2010 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/Jan 27th 2010 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/
Exactly. E-readers aren't meant to fry your eyes after a few hours.]]>Jan 27th 2010 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/
kindle is more revolutionary if you ask me,]]>Jan 27th 2010 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/Jan 27th 2010 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/
Buy both. The $499 iPad and the $259 Kindle is still less than the $999 the tablet was supposed to cost.]]>Jan 27th 2010 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/Jan 27th 2010 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/
Well, sometimes bucking the trend isn't always a good thing.]]>Jan 27th 2010 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/
This is a stupid analysis, Engadget. Seriously.]]>Jan 27th 2010 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/
I guess Steve Jobs is getting a little senile in his old age because the iPad is not an eReader, it's a large PMP.]]>Jan 27th 2010 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/
I don't own a Kindle but after now knowing the specs of both, I would go Kindle without a doubt. I've never even seen a Kindle or iPad in person, but this thing makes me want a Kindle even more. I have a million and one ways to play games and consume audio/video/internet content, I don't need or want another one.

E-Ink display is no doubt the winner. I've tried using the Kindle app on my iPhone and my eyes were bleeding from my anus.

Battery life is not even comparable. 1-week of usability time for Kindle vs 10 hrs for this monstrosity

]]>Jan 27th 2010 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/
This is all a bad dream!]]>Jan 27th 2010 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/Jan 27th 2010 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/
Or buy the HP slate PC. Better than the iPad and lets you read kindle books.]]>Jan 27th 2010 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/This is another example that Apple has lost touch with its base !! They have thrown this out there thinking everyone has to love it because it’s from them, rather than actually asking there users what they would want the product to be able too do!!!!]]>Jan 27th 2010 7:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/Jan 27th 2010 7:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/"Kindles e-ink is easy to read even at the beach. The network is free, the books are relatively cheap, it's smaller and uses barely any power."
True, but not easy to read in dim areas.]]>Jan 27th 2010 7:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/
JooJoo will go out of business, although, I'm not sure it really was in business.]]>Jan 27th 2010 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/Sorry but e-ink is waaaaay better than an ips lcd. Engadget should change the screen type section to green for the Kindle's and red for the iPOOP. This comparison is about e-readers not anything else.]]>Jan 27th 2010 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/Jan 27th 2010 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/Jan 27th 2010 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/Jan 27th 2010 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/
In any event, I wonder how many people use their kindle outside the confines of their armchair or bed anyway. The screen may be less of an issue than people make out.]]>Jan 27th 2010 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/Neither is a book. That's why they invented lights.]]>Jan 27th 2010 8:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/did engadget FORGET THE NOOK?

it runs frickin Android!!!]]>Jan 27th 2010 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/ http://notestoself.posterous.com/ipad-is-going-to-eat-kindles-lunch-and-then-k]]>Jan 27th 2010 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/You can say nigh anything on the front page and get
highest rated. This monomaniacal iPad bashing is as obnoxiously snobbish and stupid as the people who are rabidly promoting it.
The truth usually lies between extremes.
]]>Jan 27th 2010 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/
Here's the thing. How well does Office run on Kindle?

Oh, it doesn't? Well it's not really comparable to the iPad then, is it? Yeah. You guys don't appear to be taking the full capabilities of the iPad into account when comparing it to the Kindle. If e-reading was the only thing the iPad could do, then you might have a point. But since it's not, you don't.

How are those 140,000 apps for the Kindle? Oh wait, yeah. Forgot about those too. ]]>Jan 27th 2010 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/
you don't think reading normal books gives you eyestrain?

its holding something a foot away from your face thats straining your eyes. kids in China wear glasses when they're 8 years old, not because of the light from their iPads, its because they study for 4 hrs every night. straining their eyes... ]]>Jan 27th 2010 8:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/If the device allows for the reading of e-books, it can be called an e-reader.
The iPad, while horribly named, is a viable competitor to the Kindle. It is competitively priced, as long as you get the 16GB wifi only model.
It also allows you to do much more than just read books.]]>Jan 27th 2010 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/
how does Office run on iPad???

Oh wait, it doesn't run either.

oops]]>Jan 27th 2010 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/Jan 27th 2010 8:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/Jan 27th 2010 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/" I've tried using the Kindle app on my iPhone and my eyes were bleeding from my anus"

well, you clearly weren't using it properly.]]>Jan 27th 2010 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/
Seriously though, it makes more sense to get a convertible tablet along the lines of the Lenovo S10-3t, Asus T91MT or spend a bit more and get the Acer 1820PT (still under a grand), or go for broke and get something higher end in the thin & light convertible.

At least you don't have to worry about compatibility, lack of codec support, walled gardens and being mocked for CARRYING AROUND A GIANT IPHONE. ]]>Jan 27th 2010 9:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/What are they going to compare it to then?
A TV?]]>Jan 27th 2010 9:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/
Of course, I was smart enough to turn off the 3G when not downloading a book.]]>Jan 27th 2010 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/
A tablet computer? I was waiting for something revolutionary to make me dump my Fujitsu TabletPC. The iPad doesn't expand any useful tablet functionality beyond the iPhone.]]>Jan 27th 2010 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/The iPad lets you read Kindle books, too.]]>Jan 28th 2010 12:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/My real books have better contrast.]]>Jan 28th 2010 3:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/Jan 28th 2010 5:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/Jan 28th 2010 7:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/
iPad is a classic text-book example of overmarketing/overhyping and undelivering. But then again, this is Apple....]]>Jan 28th 2010 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/
No, common sense will decide. No e-Ink = No e-Reader]]>Jan 28th 2010 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-or-kindle-will-our-wallets-decide/
The Kindle is more revolutionary. By a long shot. What is Engadget trying to do?? Why even make this comparison? My current netbooks and laptops can get eBooks on them......why isn't engadget doing side-by-side comparisons between Kindle and laptop/netbooks???? It is apple vs. oranges....but hey, they need to grasp at whatever straw they can to try to show (and fail) the iPad beating something out.]]>Jan 28th 2010 1:20PM