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Originally Posted by RadioMan52
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.  |
Well that's interesting. Even if Augen doesn't issue a second update to restore the proper function to the accelerometer, I still consider the TB to be a decent e-book reader. At $65, it's a steal.
I'm no programmer, but I've been all over the Ingenic ftp site, which is a treasure trove of information and source code for the JZ4755 chip that powers "The Book". There is so much potential there. It's too bad Augen doesn't seem to know what to do with it.
"Marktech" is spectacularly slow about approving forum members, so don't take it personally. I was in limbo for almost a week before I got the go-ahead. Come to think of it, "Mark" is not responding to service tickets either since last week. Perhaps Mark/marktech is on vacation or concentrating all his efforts on the Augen android tablet. I'll probably call the customer service line one more time before I fax a complaint to the CEO of Augen.