Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Life of (a new) Pi

As the world is moving towards a paper-free living, Idea came up with its new ad - 'the ped bachao ad'. And it makes more sense that Amazon should have tried to launch Kindle in India just a few months back. Although probably it did not click as expected.
And while iPad and Sony reader are yet to make way into the Indian Market, it seems India has come up with its own ebook reader - "Pi"

Read more here

The introductory price comes out to be 10k. You can pre-order it here for 999/-.
And in case you do can you please drop me the review after using it.

My brother bought a kindle long back (been more than a year now!) and ever since then I had been waiting for something like that to launch in India. And now finally the day has come.

But here is a list of my concerns:
  • Does not support internet. I think it should support the USB driven net connections.
  • Books are not part of the package. Will have to buy them separately. At least a few should have come with it.
That being said, it has some interesting features too
  • It supports Indian languages but I could not find any regional language book in the site. (May be I missed them)
  • Supports an array of formats like EPUB, PDF, EPUB, HTML, TXT, MOBI, DOC. So finding ebooks should not be a problem.
  • For all those music lovers, it supports a music library of MP3 and you can plug in the earphones while reading.
  • Says that battery life is 7 days. Now that is a lot of books for my kind of person!
And for any other specifications, please help yourself and find it on the net.

So now all said and done, I understand the concern of saving trees and hence a paper-less world but a book is still a book. What do you people think? How successful will Pi be?

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