My gps is wonked up.... and I attribute it to the 2.0.1. Now, even with full sky access I rarely (and mostly never) get the pulsing blue pin. Very frustrating.
I have a call in to tech support about it. So far no luck. The level 2 support guy (I got passed the first screening anyway) mentioned this was his first GPS-related problem. I found that discouraging, so I was very happy to see this article on engadget!
I own one. Its fantastic. Its NOT a pda or an "eepc" or whatever. If you were into reading you would want one. The screen is so paper-like its a amazing.
Would I want it cheaper? Sure, but its by far my favorite gadget. I travel a lot so it gets heavy use.
Does it look bad? No its actually quite nice once you get ahold of one, but I tend to be looking at the book Im reading, not the border... so that complaint always puzzled me.
Is it the best reader out there? Oh absolutely. Best book selection, keyboard for full book-searches and notes, connection to the store at all times, built-in dictionary and wikipedia lookup.
So stop "slashdotting" the thing to death and actually do some reading about the device.
seriously? have you SEEN these E-ink displays people? Are you REALLY going to read an entire novel on a tiny backlit LCD? Further, kindle has a very nice integrated "e-store" and by far the best selection of books.
Why is this impressing everybody? We have fast SSD RAID0s with larger capacity everywhere now. 128, 256 are commonplace (See supertalent.com) and 512 GB SATA SSD drives are well on their way. Now RAID0 9 of those and get back to me.
And why the confusion on what good this application would be for? There are a lot of environments where moving parts and temperature are too much for spinning drives. Industry and military for example.
"My father-in-law is heading back to school in the spring and wants a laptop for Christmas. The only catch is their budget is around $400 and he does not want a netbook. He's not very "tech savvy" at all and doesn't need a hoss of a machine (not that $400 could get you one). We would like to get it for him as soon as possible and would love some input."
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