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Originally Posted by Frankr
Has anyone heard anything new on this, especially what the latest eta is?
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Well, it's now the end of October, two months since Pintu was told that trial batches will be done in Aug. and mass production in Sept., and still nothing.
The Fall back-to-school season (main season for e-readers) is past. It's essentially too late for the Chrsitmas season as well, since there has to be a minimum of advertising and product announcements beforehand.
Most siginificantly, there's nothing official from Onyx, and in the past they've had no issues discussing products in advance.
In fact, the only public mention is still the Facebook posting from March.
I decided not to wait any longer for Onyx or any of the other 8" e-ink e-readers.
3 weeks ago I bought an 8-inch Acer Android tablet I'm very happy with; the screen is slightly less comfortable to read than e-ink/OED, but I still have no issues reading 6-7 hours at a stretch. Battery life is 12-15 hours of reading (radios & GPS off), also less than e-ink readers but certainly good enough.
Price was US$130, which is about half of the anticipated price of the i86.