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Originally Posted by ebookreaders
The Hanlin V3 will be positioned between the Cybook (which comes without accessories) and the Cybook Deluxe, hence its current price tag.
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I kinda suspected something like that. I personally think that price is too high, but then, I have no idea about the business side of such things...
tribble, that sucks to hear. The V3 is such a nice product, and with Mobipocket support and a decent sales and marketing strategy it would be nearly perfect.
As for the reason of the price increase on Apollo XXI, it seems that Jinke has revised the V3 and, among possibly other changes, increased the size of the user-accessible flash RAM to 512 MB. Apollo XXI will start shipping this revised model.
(And yes, I've put my order with Apollo XXI today. There are a couple of business trips in my near future that could really profit from having an e-book reader around.)