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katzki · 11-27-2010, 07:46 PM

Soondai,
it seems that you have chosen PDNW based on its price and the hackability.

Personally, I would never make such decision. Yes, it's cheap and it looks cheap.
Hackability. Yes, but IQ will be hackable someday soon, too. More importantly I don't need to hack on IQ. IMO, as an ereader, IQ has a higher potential than PDNW as IQ's reading app is fully supported by Pocketbook and will be upgraded constantly. I also like the fact that IQ's OS will be upgraded to Anroid 2.2 in December.

Except for the price, IQ dominates PDNW in every aspect. I weigh the quality difference more than the price difference. I know that for someone price is a more important factor. For you, PDNW might be the best decision, I understand it.

BTW, IQ will have a newly updated firmware by next Monday. To me, it's a surprise that you made a choice based on the "incomplete version" of IQ's firmware. As far as I remember, PDNW was stated as "horrible" when it came out first as its software was not optimized at all...

11-27-2010, 07:46 PM	#4
katzki Zealot Posts: 103 Karma: 736 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: sony prs 650	Soondai, it seems that you have chosen PDNW based on its price and the hackability. Personally, I would never make such decision. Yes, it's cheap and it looks cheap. Hackability. Yes, but IQ will be hackable someday soon, too. More importantly I don't need to hack on IQ. IMO, as an ereader, IQ has a higher potential than PDNW as IQ's reading app is fully supported by Pocketbook and will be upgraded constantly. I also like the fact that IQ's OS will be upgraded to Anroid 2.2 in December. Except for the price, IQ dominates PDNW in every aspect. I weigh the quality difference more than the price difference. I know that for someone price is a more important factor. For you, PDNW might be the best decision, I understand it. BTW, IQ will have a newly updated firmware by next Monday. To me, it's a surprise that you made a choice based on the "incomplete version" of IQ's firmware. As far as I remember, PDNW was stated as "horrible" when it came out first as its software was not optimized at all... Last edited by katzki; 11-27-2010 at 07:59 PM.