Re: Moral of the story...
If your modem and wifi enabled router are provided by your provider and by contract are not allowed to replace them, that's not an option.
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@AC Use calibre to convert the books into epub.
I like the high resolution (for an ereader) though it might be physically a little large. Colour and epub 3 support (in particular embedded audio object support) are what I would like to see. If my ereader died tomorrow this is probably what I would buy as a replacement. Will be interesting to see what Sony pull out of the bag. They are rumoured to be annocing the t3 soon.
"So unless Linux gets a proper layer of DRM, you I doubt will ever see Netflix or any similar service"
I think you mean one you have to pay for. There's always the post DVD option.
BTW there's no native BB7, BB10 or playbook app for netflix or lovefilm. First one that does is getting a subscription (I know good ereader have ported the android app to the Z10 and the Q10 but I don't have one of those)..
It doesn't have skype as the moment. It does have its own video calling app to other playbooks and it has whatsapp too.
It connects to bluetooth keyboards, I am looking for a good one atm. Logitech for ipad is most likely contender.
Android apps have to be repackaged but goodereader has a wide selection of them. Going to try the streaming netflix app tonight.
I have to take issue with your description of the playbook as a failed tablet. Not only do I remember it, I read the article and am typing this comment on it. It inexplicably arrived without a native client because it was design as a companion device for blackberry handsets. This ensured maximum security. Using the bridge it was possible to view, send and receive but if the tablet was lost or stolen, there was no data on it so you could relax. Most reviewers didn't understand this and treated it like it was a standard ipad wannabe and so it's reputation suffered. That is partiality blacbkerry's fault but reviewers should have realised what it was instead of saying this is not what I expected, nor am I its target market and therefore it is bad.
Which is an arguement for improving the website rather than letting the internet devolve into a series of apps. Sir Tim Berners Lee has some interesting things to say on the topic:
http://www.zdnet.com/apps-no-root-your-device-serves-others-berners-lee-7000010661/
(I tried looking on el reg but couldn't find the story)
Apps are better because it's cooler to have an app than put the kind of effort that is required to make a website useable on a phone. It's a self fulfilling prophecy.
Apps are in principle a bad thing for accessing websites. It encourages the siloisation of data. Imagine if sites like the register disappeared and were available only as an app?
"Intelligence-driven security procedures that include deep packet inspection, app whitelisting and sandboxing for links and attachments in incoming email can be effective. "You need to maintain a high alert and watch everything," Stewart concluded, adding that greater collaboration and information sharing was also important"
All this costs money and it's not always possible to convince the people with the purse strings to loosen them and even if you do, when they start to inconvenience someone important the rules can be thrown out of the window.