[photon]

A netbook is just a laptop with low power and smaller. This is a touch screen tablet that's not intended to be a generic computing device it's intended to do a very specific set of things and that's it.

I held off buying a Sony eBook reader for $200 (the smaller screened one) to see what this would end up being, now I kind of regret it. From an ebook reader point of view this device is great except that it's still an LCD screen, and the screens of the Kindle et al are what make the devices for many people.

On one hand this is pretty much what was expected (a really big iPod touch), which is a bit disappointing.. the iPhone took phones and did them better than everyone else at the time (and still better than everyone else in some ways, but others are catching up now). This doesn't really feel the same, it just a big iPod touch.

On the other hand, I can't think of the # of times I've been using my iPhone and wished "if this was only just a bit bigger"... So who knows, maybe this'll really be the thing. I was hoping for at least a great keyboard for that type of device rather than just a big iPhone keyboard.

For me things that would seal the deal.. a different screen, the Pixel Qi one that operates as an LCD or a ebook type screen. A camera for video conferencing, and a outward facing camera for augmented reality apps. And multitasking. Really I want a full bore OSX but they'd rather run the iPhone OS blazing fast than run OSX dead slow.