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Plastic Logic Que demoed at CES – costs an arm and a leg
January 7, 2010 | 12:20 pm
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By Paul Biba
Engadget has a report on the Que which was demoed at the show.
It will be incredibly expensive—$649 without 3G and $799 with 3G from AT&T.
At those prices even corporate buyers are going to have to evaluate its utility when their workforce already has laptops which can do much the same thing.
One surprise of the presser is the new truVue format for publications that Plastic Logic supports. The standard was developed in conjunction with Adobe, and it preserves some of the style and layout (though certainly not all) of a print publication, with publishers such as Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Huffington Post, Thompson Reuters and more on board.. To get documents onto the device you can print to a "QUE it" printer, as well as drag and drop documents to a "QUE it" droplet on the desktop for automagical document transfers. There’s also a QUE application for the BlackBerry, which can bump any email or attachment from the BlackBerry to the QUE over Bluetooth. QUE has partnered with Good for "QUE Mail" and "QUE Calendar," with support for Exchange, Gmail, Windows Live and other email accounts.
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Not surprised at the price of the Que. When they said some time ago that they were concentrating on the business market the writing was on the wall. It was always very clear the thing was going to be EXPENSIVE. Pity as I like the idea of it being made of plastic rather than glass and therefore less likely to break.
While the price is certainly up there it’s lower than the IREX 1000 series which I assume this device is meant to compete against.