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Originally Posted by Poppaea
It seems to cause ghosting. I am not sure if it is an advancement if it does not work properly.
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With both Kobo and New Nook Touch Readers being released at almost the exact same time, it's pretty clear that the respective development teams may have been under pressure to get their products out the door and on the market to match the others release date.
So, I would not be surprised if there are a few kinks in the first release firmware.
I am sure that, if there are issues in the first release, they will be fixed quickly.
Keep in mind that unlike Sony, B&N has already done several updates to their Nook classic to
both fix bugs and add features (which is more than you can say about Sony).
I wish I could say that Sony is just as responsive as B&N and Kobo, but sadly this is just not the case.
While it is true that Sony just did an update for the 350 and 650, to fix a few DRM bugs, that was only because the bug was really serious (DRM books would frequently refuse to open) and this was causing users to threaten returns, so they HAD NO CHOICE.
Since every Sony user had to risk a potentially dangerous Flash Memory upgrade, this would have been a golden opportunity for Sony to reward users by adding some nice new features to make these models more competitive, like B&N has done in the past with their Nook; but did Sony add games like the Nook - NO; Did they add additional fonts like BOTH the new Nook AND Kobo provide - NO.
As someone who worked for a Japanese company for 15 years, I can tell you from first hand experience that most of them treat programmers like call girls (wham-bam-thank-you-mam, now please take your money and get out of here.)
They may think about new features for the NEXT glorious 'Shin Hatsubai', but why WASTE money adding features to an
existing product just to please users, ARE YOU CRAZY?