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Very disappointing. It's just an iPod Touch with a faster processor and bigger screen (with bigger battery to power it) for $300 more! That's outrageous! Typing will be difficult, too. It's too wide to type with thumbs (maybe OK in portrait mode). To use it like a keyboard, you have to lie it flat on the table and lean over it (imagine lying the LCD you're looking at now on it's back, or opening your laptop 180 degrees). Even then, you have no tactile feedback, so forget touch-typing without the (undoubtably expensive and cumbersome) add-on keyboard.
$130 for a 3G radio is a bit high. It'd be nice if it was retrofittable, too. $30/month for data doesn't sound bad at first...similar to the iphone, but consider the purchase price of the device isn't subsidized like the iPhone, and this is less likely to be drug around everywhere like the iPhone.
For e-book reading, e-ink is easier on the eyes and offeres practically unlimited battery life. Books seem to be a focus of this device. Ideally, they should've made the back side of the device an e-ink display. Alternatively, they could've basically made a replacement for the last-gen MacBook with a swivel-screen for tablet mode (like HP tablets).
So, what we have here is an iPod touch with about $40 worth of extra parts in it for an extra $300. Revolutionary.
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