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Samsung Goes Beyond the e-Book Concept with Their New SNE-50K

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12 pointsBjoern6 comments

The photo reminds me of a (likely HN, but I can't find it right now) article on why you shouldn't have pretty models look at the camera in product shots/websites. The viewer will look at the model instead of the website/product.

Maybe I'm just a nerd, but my eyes went straight for the hardware.

Do you mean this link?

How A Pretty Face Can Push Visitors Away

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=719328

Kindle is just a book, pity since Kindle could be much more

This seems to insinuate the last thing I should want from my eReader is for it to be highly focused on the one task I actually use it for. For my money, the opposite is true.

Seconded. I have a Sony PRS-505 and I'd never go for an eReader without over-the-air or at least WLAN again. I couldn't care less about taking notes on the thing. Feel free to bolt that on after you have wireless added, but not before. Wireless support is a system seller. Note-taking is just "Why would I want this" and "Will I scratch my screen with the pen?" fluff.

And even if the note-taking expirience is completely awesome (which I doubt, given the response time of E-Ink screens). Do I really want to plug the device in all the time and use some proprietary windows-only crapware to transfer my notes? Certainly not.

Thanks for the heads-up. A 5-inch e-ink touch screen is a novelty - I believe only larger Sony and iRex models have it.

A search on "Samsung reader SNE-50K" yielded a few good short notices - seems it's only S.Korea for now, priced at USD 274, in line with other 5 or 6 inch e-ink readers.

P.S. The note at jkOnTheRun (http://jkontherun.com/2009/07/27/samsung-sne-50k-e-book-read..., with stylus photo) ends with a fully deserved barb: "The Samsung reader features no wireless capability, unlike Amazon’s Kindle. Maybe that might be a good thing to protect reader’s content."

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