Barnes & Noble planning new eReader for May 24th launch

Maybe it will actually be an e-reader device, and not an underpowered tablet masquerading as an e-reader.

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I am pretty happy with a 200 dollar tablet sporting CM7. I mean ereader. They will have to compete with the new capacitive Archos Arnova around the corner that is going to be in the low 2′s.

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Look for it to be under $100!

Tablet owners are increasing, including me and my mother

Apple CEO Steve Jobs may have been onto something when he said that “PCs are going to be like trucks,” as some tablet owners are reportedly letting their PCs gather dust. My colleague Tina said “iPad has replaced my laptop for almost everything but work.”

Most of tablet owners with desktop PCs say they’re using the computer less often than before, or not at all. About 1/3 of tablet owners who use their laptops “less often, or not at all”. The tablet is more convenient for reading e-mail, checking Twitter and browsing the Web — the kind of things I’m inclined to do in the evenings and on weekends.

Tablet users like the devices because they’re easy to carry around, and they’re increasingly using them instead of traditional PCs, notebooks, netbooks, eReaders, and even portable media players and gaming systems. An intersting thing is: People shared their tablets with other people in their household. That is the easiest sharing time. You can share your pictures and movies by WiFi or PCs, notebooks, netbooks at home, and even connect tablet to HDTV(such as iPad airplay). If the movie is shot by HD camcorder, you can eidt and convert it at home with Pavtube Video Converter; If the movie is Blu-ray bought from Amazon, you can back it up to tablet by Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper. So the sharing is so popular and the tablet is good enough to do the thing.

As Mother’s Day is just around the corner, no time is better than now to start looking for that perfect gift idea. And in 2011, new industry trends are showing that cameras, camcorders, tablets and their accessories are gaining popularity as a great gift. Mom has a Sony HDR-XR550V and a Blu-ray/DVD player connected to a 40 inch widescreen HDTV. She watches her movies directly from the discs via the player and TV. Mom told me many of her favorite discs have had heavy scratches after long time repeatedly insert and eject the discs, which makes her troubled. She also likes the good pictures and videos shot by HDR-XR550V, but the videos couldn’t be read by her HDTV. To settle mom’s problem I decide to bring her a gift: a Video, BD, and DVD backup software called Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate. This program can handle both HD video and BD or DVD Disc. I have been using it to convert videos for my iPad for a long time, and I will tell the steps how to operate the program and how good the result is. Two weeks later will be my mom’s birthday. I will choose a tablet as her birthday gifts.

Due to the convenience factor the tablet brings in traveling and its ‘instant on’ for quick lookup functions, my mother and I are spending more time with the media tablet. We now use it for both work and pleasure.