The Nokia 770 mini-tablet seems to be off to a good start–especially welcome news, since the last thing the e-book world needs is Sony’s proprietary approach. Let the Sony Reader’s competition thrive! (Thanks to Mike Cane.)
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January 5th, 2006 at 11:34 am
This report is from ElectricNews.net (and maybe originally from the Wall Street Journal), and it confirms what close followers have already known — that demand for the Nokia 770 is far outstripping the supply.
At this point in time, ENN can say with a straight face that “analysts believe it could be successful as a niche product.” One reason I push it as an e-reader is that I think this “niche” is well on its way to becoming a full-fledged category.
Unlike others who think e-books will take off when specialized e-readers arrive, I think that the spur will be e-reading capability on tablets that people buy for other purposes.
I conclude this from guessing that more e-book readers (the human kind) on Palm devices bought their PDA for other uses and took to e-reading than those who bought Palms in order to read e-books.
So if internet tablets grow as a category, the prices for these e-reader-also devices will fall as competition increases.