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September 15th, 2002

Hardware news: Chinese TabletPCs | The Hiptop

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Two hardware items of interest…

Item One: What if China ends up far ahead of the U.S. in the use of e-books? Could happen. Remember, TabletPCs may be especially good for Chinese-language users. And once the hardware is out there, it’s natural for books.

Item Two: The next generation of the Hiptop, a budget-priced PC-phone combination, would be a natural for e-books to be included–complete with easy downloading capabilities and maybe Gutenberg classics built in. Some people, in fact, would consider the present screens to be good enough. The Hiptop already offers Web-browsing, instant messages and email.

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