@CRWheeler Yup. I fully expect Josh to post a video of trying to open the Adamo with a cat's paw.

@Trevize

Your question was five words too long.

@Sarig: I understand that perfectly well. I just prefer to exercise a little hard skepticism as these things roll out. Don't mean to hinder any progress, just rather make sure we don't go building more overly elaborate crap just to find out later that over the whole of their life it does still more damage.

Except that if it takes that much hardware to generate that little power, the environmental impact of building the generator may offset the green savings.

The current 3G data coverage ranking is 1) Verizon, 2) Sprint, 3) AT&T.

People gripe about how bad the original design had been. But to some degree the newness of a device that rarely needs to connect by cell may have played a part.

Phones need to always maintain contact. Data cards are also more persistent when connected. But with this there are a lot of efficiencies to be learned in how to best down-throttle during the frequent and long dead periods.

The battery life improvements don't affect performance with the radio off. Apparently the efficiencies were entirely aimed at the wireless.

@Alan: Fortunately they aren't still images, so you're covered. Actually, ASUS ought to consider a different marketing solid angle.

Go Sprin--oh, wait..

No doubt. Since seeing the Kindle DX, I've wished I could print certain articles from my laptop to an e-ink reader, much like is done generating a PDF. Y'know... instead of killing trees 'n stuff.