Sell you on the Entourage Pocket Edge? Folks, I don't have to do a single bit of selling because the Entourage Pocket Edge sells itself :)
Books have been plentiful and cheap via the built-in Entourage Marketplace, Google Marketplace and a few other non-built-in-but-easily-accessible Android marketplaces. The e-Reader reads .pdf like a pro, so as a comic book collector that's awesome; you can still get those CD-ROM collector editions that Marvel did a few years back which collected every issue of a title from the 60's on up through the 90'sb in .pdf for like $10, but most shops sel them these days for $5 (only titles they did, if I remember correctly, were Amazing Spider-Man, Captain America, X-Men, Fantastic Four and The Avengers). Combined with the Android tablet, getting stuff on there has been a breeze. Download the file. "Download Complete, would you like to add this to your library?" Yes. That easy.
Productivity-wise, it's got Microsfot Word, Excel and Power Point built in on the tablet, as well as a "Journal" over on the e-Reader side for just jotting down hand-written notes. Very nice to keep the screens open and be able to transfer notes I jotted down in to an excel spreadsheet if need be :)
Y'know what? It would be easier to list the things I *don't* like about it than listing all the things I DO like.
It has a 2.0MP camera built in that is great to use on the fly or as a bar code scanner, but I haven't found a way to use Skype on it yet :(
Access to the actual Android Marketplace is denied, although there are about a gazillion other places to get your Android apps (all linked to off of the official Entourage website forums at http://www.entourageedge.com).
Not all Android apps work on it, even though it's running Android 2.2 (Angry Birds does not work on this tablet), which is probably why access to the Android Marketplace is denied :(
The AC adapter plug fits in to the headphone jack very easily and the two are opposirte of each other on the device, so it is very easy to NOT charge the device when you think that you are charging it.
Wow... that's it? That's all I can think of???
It really is just a perfect little device, and came in real handy when I was inventorying my Dad;s shop for an insurance claim (real world value) as well as being an inexhaustible source of constant free reading material :)
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Books have been plentiful and cheap via the built-in Entourage Marketplace, Google Marketplace and a few other non-built-in-but-easily-accessible Android marketplaces. The e-Reader reads .pdf like a pro, so as a comic book collector that's awesome; you can still get those CD-ROM collector editions that Marvel did a few years back which collected every issue of a title from the 60's on up through the 90'sb in .pdf for like $10, but most shops sel them these days for $5 (only titles they did, if I remember correctly, were Amazing Spider-Man, Captain America, X-Men, Fantastic Four and The Avengers). Combined with the Android tablet, getting stuff on there has been a breeze. Download the file. "Download Complete, would you like to add this to your library?" Yes. That easy.
Productivity-wise, it's got Microsfot Word, Excel and Power Point built in on the tablet, as well as a "Journal" over on the e-Reader side for just jotting down hand-written notes. Very nice to keep the screens open and be able to transfer notes I jotted down in to an excel spreadsheet if need be :)
Y'know what? It would be easier to list the things I *don't* like about it than listing all the things I DO like.
It has a 2.0MP camera built in that is great to use on the fly or as a bar code scanner, but I haven't found a way to use Skype on it yet :(
Access to the actual Android Marketplace is denied, although there are about a gazillion other places to get your Android apps (all linked to off of the official Entourage website forums at http://www.entourageedge.com).
Not all Android apps work on it, even though it's running Android 2.2 (Angry Birds does not work on this tablet), which is probably why access to the Android Marketplace is denied :(
The AC adapter plug fits in to the headphone jack very easily and the two are opposirte of each other on the device, so it is very easy to NOT charge the device when you think that you are charging it.
Wow... that's it? That's all I can think of???
It really is just a perfect little device, and came in real handy when I was inventorying my Dad;s shop for an insurance claim (real world value) as well as being an inexhaustible source of constant free reading material :)