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aceflor · 12-24-2010, 05:45 AM

Pocketbook has decided to raise its prices, which I can't really understand (and believe me, I tried). As a company, they can do whatever they want to their products.

As Consumers, we can and have to express ourselves on the web for potential new customers to be able to get the necessary information before buying.

So basically, here is the message:
Owners of (at least) IQ and 302 need the promised FW asap, and by that I do not mean 2011. Those have been promised (Android 2.2 for the IQ and a working FW with a real browser for the 302) for a long time, TTS is for instance part of the product spec for the IQ, so it not a futuristic concept but something that should have been implemented from the beginning.

If Pocketbook cannot deliver very very soon, it will mean to me they will never deliver, and I would advise anyone who is interested to make sure they will be happy with the price they will pay for the devices in their actual WORKING specifications as opposed to the promised made by PB or what is written on the box. TTS is actually written on the box of the IQ but is not available (can't you be sued for this in the US by the way ?). Anyway, this is not acceptable.

Astak too has been promising for months now new products in their e-reader segment, and see where they are.

We need Android 2.2 with TTS on the IQ, and we need the long, long promised new FW on the 302. We need them NOW.

12-24-2010, 05:45 AM	#1
aceflor Wizard Posts: 3,472 Karma: 48036360 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: where the sun lives, or so they say Device: Pocketbook Era, Pocketbook Inkpad 4, Kobo Libra 2, Kindle Scribe	Pocketbook Firmwares Pocketbook has decided to raise its prices, which I can't really understand (and believe me, I tried). As a company, they can do whatever they want to their products. As Consumers, we can and have to express ourselves on the web for potential new customers to be able to get the necessary information before buying. So basically, here is the message: Owners of (at least) IQ and 302 need the promised FW asap, and by that I do not mean 2011. Those have been promised (Android 2.2 for the IQ and a working FW with a real browser for the 302) for a long time, TTS is for instance part of the product spec for the IQ, so it not a futuristic concept but something that should have been implemented from the beginning. If Pocketbook cannot deliver very very soon, it will mean to me they will never deliver, and I would advise anyone who is interested to make sure they will be happy with the price they will pay for the devices in their actual WORKING specifications as opposed to the promised made by PB or what is written on the box. TTS is actually written on the box of the IQ but is not available (can't you be sued for this in the US by the way ?). Anyway, this is not acceptable. Astak too has been promising for months now new products in their e-reader segment, and see where they are. We need Android 2.2 with TTS on the IQ, and we need the long, long promised new FW on the 302. We need them NOW.