I absolutely adore my Kindle 2, and the new model looks much better. It's a very limited device compared to a computer or smartphone, but what it does it does extremely well. When I have the budget for a K3 I'll be looking into something like this for the old one:
http://hackaday.com/2009/09/03/ubuntu-9-04-on-kindle-2/ I can't imagine how long it would take to compile a kernel on that thing. John <http://hackaday.com/2009/09/03/ubuntu-9-04-on-kindle-2/> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:07 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. < [email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 23:57 -0400, Kyle Gonzales wrote: > > > > The amount of productivity that can be extracted from a mobile device > > these days is amazing, especially when you a primarily concerned with > > email, calendaring, contact management, and the like. I can do 99% of > > the communications I need from my phone. > > In nice weather, I go to the beach and update servers and do some work > there. All I need is a terminal. Heck I can even do some programing via > text editors :) Pun from another recent thread. > > But there is nothing like my big displays, and having several of them. I > cannot even get by with just my laptop and its large screen. Its funny, > either lots of big screens, or a small one on my phone. > > That said I could not live without my desktop and at times laptop. Love > my phone, but it only goes so far. > > > I bought my iPad for reading books and such, but I have found its form > > factor is very useful for reading long emails (esp HTML based) and > > webpages. Xoom form factor is similar, and Samsung is releasing some of > > a similar size as well. Maybe Jobs was right about that 7" form factor > > being a stinker... > > Yes, and I have had some interest in getting a Kindle and I am not > really a book reader. Though would likely be more so of one with that. > Not sure if I will use a tablet. I find myself wiping the screen of my > phone way to often. Scum builds up really quickly, us humans are very > dirty :) > > That even with having a real keyboard on the phone and primarily using > that, for anything beyond launching apps and making phone calls. > > -- > William L. Thomson Jr. > Obsidian-Studios, Inc. > http://www.obsidian-studios.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > Unsubscribe [email protected] > >
