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Photo Book, a portable image viewer that supports RAW
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... The Photo Book from Digital Foci almost seems like its from that forlorn era of Just A Few Year Back, when manufacturers were trying to get us to buy Portable Media Centers and dedicated movie devices too big to fit in a pocket. But it's got a specific market in mind: photographers. It can digest nearly every type of flash memory card on the planet, gulping down images to its 4GB of internal memory—including files in RAW formats. (Which RAW formats it supports—there's a different variant for nearly every type of camera—will be the big if.) ...
RAW Photo Viewing Device Beaten by Netbooks
Wired: Gadget Lab —
... 2.5 hours.
In fact, the only advantages are portability and price. The Photo Book will be $190 when it hits stores in May this year. A netbook is around twice that, but can do so much more besides. And as Joel at Boing Boing Gadgets points out, RAW support is an ever-shifting target. That's why Adobe and Apple are forever updating their photo software just to keep up with new cameras.
Verdict: don't bother. Product page [Digital Foci via BBG via Crunchgear]
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