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Originally Posted by JJanssen
i don't decide anything, I am simply making an observation: DX, no matter whether it is white or grey, is a second generation Kindle which runs the 2.x firmware series, just like K2. Its hardware cannot run the 3.x firmware. there is no way around this (well, except relabeling a 2.x firmware as "3.x for Kindle 2", which would be cheating and doesn't solve anything).
Some of the features from 3.1 may well be backported to 2.x and thus the K2, DX, DXG series, but efforts put into obsolete and niche product software are always going to be smaller than the investments into the flagship, which is the Kindle 3G + WiFi, the K3. Also the hardware capabilities of the second generation platform are simply lower, as others gave mentioned.
Don't get me wrong, I think it'd be great if Amazon would wave it's magic wand and make these problems go away... But that's not going to happen.
I would expect that in six months or so we'll see the fourth generation of the Kindle platform and both 6 and 10 inch versions based on it, and it will be really interesting to see whether they attach an eInk Pearl to it, or if they have found something new, and what. *That* DX will be bang up to date.. But it still won't be the flagship product.
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it has half the RAM correct but the DXG was given the same upgraded CPU the K3 has in addition to the pearl screen.
the features the DX community are requesting are minor, it simply isn't credible that less RAM would stop the implementation of darkened PDF text, opening password protected PDF, PDF indexing and book page numbers. the updated web browser would probably be more difficult but nobody is really requesting that.
Duokan can do these things and much more on all Kindle models, irrespective of RAM or processor speed, so why can't Amazon?
It is shoddy support and customer service plain and simple, and utterly indefensible.