enTourage eDGe Dualbook: Too Little Too Late?
April 1, 2010 by jschneier
eDGe is being marketed as an e-book reader and a netbook…it looks like a small laptop when it is folded. When opened one side reads like a "kindle" screen for reading and the other screen is a full color touch screen for Internet, music, email and whatever.
Sounds great? But it sort of falls flat. There is no standby mode so the battery drains in 10 hours if you leave it on and it takes 1 1/2 minutes to turn on which is just way too long. One major downside is that it weighs 3 lbs. which is just way too much. Another major downside is that unless you buy the ebooks from their store you will have to download the ebook to a computer and then transfer it to the eDGe. Kind of misses the point for me.
On the up side it does have a USB port and SD card. But I kind of feel like this product would have been great if the iPad wasn’t coming out, but in light of the iPad it feels like it is good but just not good enough.
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eDGe is being marketed as an e-book reader and a netbook...it looks like a small laptop when it is folded. When opened one side reads like a "kindle" screen for reading and the other screen is a full color touch screen for Internet, music, email and whatever.
Sounds great? But it sort of falls flat. There is no standby mode so the battery drains in 10 hours if you leave it on and it takes 1 1/2 minutes to turn on which is just way too long. One major downside is that it weighs 3 lbs. which is just way too much. Another major downside is that unless you buy the ebooks from their store you will have to download the ebook to a computer and then transfer it to the eDGe. Kind of misses the point for me.
On the up side it does have a USB port and SD card. But I kind of feel like this product would have been great if the iPad wasn't coming out, but in light of the iPad it feels like it is good but just not good enough.