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Originally Posted by VentureForth
Well, the post that I made with the steps to update your firmware is about as official as you're gonna probably get. No, it probably won't ever be placed on their website because it's a huge 87 MB file. Their hosting company will flip a gasket if they generate 10,000 users trying to download this file. This is a company that is doing everything to keep costs to a minimum. Even their home page is a simple site with their help site and forums hosted individually from inexpensive/free providers.
Keep in mind, these guys are an American company, but extremely small. Sure, all their stuff comes from China, but how's that different than Wal Mart?
My Dad said he talked to CS at the end of last week and said they are tying to get a new update posted. Will let everyone know if it happens.
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Now things are getting scary for sure.
K-mart is selling the open box units for $65 each; yes the sales slip still gives you the return policy (Thank you K-mart).
The Miami area stores have over 15 returns availabel, after my own experiences and reading this group I can see why they are being returned the word from one of the managers was that the returns where to be sent back the new orders are “sell them as Open Box”.
Interesting thing is all of the locked topics on the Augen support site and t I applied for membership in the Augen run forum last Friday and I am still in pending approval status I guess they are working like “banshees” or “Mark” is reading at least this forum and if you say anything that is not “positive” No approval.
This can be a Nice Unit when they get their act together and put it out for real.
A interesting comment from one of the Linux gurus that picked up one of the open box units ($65), this after he played around with the unofficial update software as his “open door” his comment are that he was able to see a whole bunch of interesting things inside the box, the (WiFi) web browsers (extremely slow) issues are mainly caused by low buffer memory and video allocation possibly caused by trying to keep maximum memory available for book storage and that many of the apps look like englisfied china mobile phone apps which accounts for the striped down interface/functionality.
I sure hope that Augen gets things moving and fast on clearing up the user issues or else we will be facing an “orphan” system and go on to the Novotel.
