Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg reviews the Amazon Kindle:
I really want to like this, but think I'll wait for version 2.0 to come out. The problem with the buttons being accidentally pressed has been mentioned by just about everyone who has reviewed this and it kills the usability of the device. Hopefully they'll fix this problem and the cover attachment issues in the next generation and add native PDF, .DOC, and .TXT support. I also hope Amazon eventually starts selling travel guides and textbooks for this thing. It seems like two of the groups most likely to gain from this type of device would be travelers and students.
See my previous posts on the Kindle here and here.
(HT TeleRead)
1 comment:
It's not surprising that Amazon would make a device that made the ebook purchasing easy, which draws upon their areas of expertise, but which would have a poor hardware design, in which they have no experience.
They should have approached Apple and gotten them to design this thing...then it would have been done right. In fact, is there any consumer electronics company that gets design and usability nailed down as much as Apple?
If Amazon were smart, they would have asked themselves "what would Apple do?" in designing their Kindle.
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