On Monday, 28th February 2011 at 19:50:21 (GMT +0100), Marcello Perathoner wrote:
> The Google Nexus One makes a *much* better night reading device than the iPhone.
> Being an LCD, you cannot dim the iPhone background to total darkness!
Why should this be everyone's preference? ;-) You know, even Stanza gives
me the option to use "plain black" as my background colour... but pure black
was too bleak even for my taste. ;-) As you can see from the screenshot:
http://aboq.org/misc/GutMagic-iPad.png I purposefully chose a background
texture (called "Red Satin" in Stanza) instead of a solid-colour background.
So you can't really say categorically, Nexus One "is a much better night
reading device" -- it all depends on your preferences and expectations.
Although I agree being able to dim a screen's background to total darkness
is a nice feature.
It's interesting that you choose a background like that because I always thought feature is too "gimmicky". Any reason why you pick a background like that rather one that is cleaner and easier on the readability? Is it more "fun" or have the background image match the right book topic etc...?
Also, the iPhone isn't really my night-reading device anyway; the iPhone
is my lunch- or dinner-reading device, if there's no human company present. ;-)
My night-reading device is the iPad, and of course the Nexus One's small screen
is no match for the iPad's 9.7-inch screen. In fact, I heard Android users
bemoaning the lack of a high-quality reading application for Android, the
quality Stanza brings on iOS; and they were asking the Stanza developers
to port Stanza for Android as well. But, the reply from Stanza folks was that,
although they'd love to see Stanza available on all platforms, they currently
lack the resources to make that possible. Like we mentioned, Stanza's
development on its only platform, iOS, has been minimal since the
takeover by Amazon.
(Now as to the battery-saving aspect: that is no concern given the iPad's 10-hour
battery life, and the fact that users charge their iPads on a daily basis anyway.)
--
Yours,
Alex.
www.aboq.org
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