Thread: Development Ermine experiences
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Old 04-03-2011, 02:27 PM   #124
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My Thoughts About My EnTourage Edge Since Upgrading to Ermine

I know these are petty complaints, but I really preferred the look of the older operating system. I lost my wallpaper with the Edge Logo. I really liked those, but now I am limited to just the bland colored backgrounds or the overly gaudy ones that turn my stomach. I wish I knew where I could get a set of the old wallpapers to add to my picture gallery so I could install them that way. I don't particularly like the giant lock/unlock and sound on/off buttons and I don't like the new analog clock. I can't understand why we don't have options to change the clock design.

Now onto more substantial issues: The browser keeps shutting down which is very annoying. I installed Opera but I found it hard to use. I installed Adobe Reader from the Amazon Market, but it shuts down the instant I select a document. And on the e-ink side, when I rotate to landscape and then go back to portrait, it leaves a dirty trail of e-ink behind, and once I push one of the side to side arrows in landscape mode, I can no longer re-center the document. Also, when it first starts, the bottom third of the e-ink screen goes completely black which just freaks me out until it returns to normal!

Now the reasons why I won't revert to the old Dingo: (1) I couldn't use Adobe Reader on that system either. (2) I didn't have any e-ink landscape mode with Dingo, so complaining about what's new but doesn't work right is stupid when there are several new things that really work well and it still does everything it did under Dingo. (3) With Dingo I usually got an error message when I tried to watch a video from a website other than Youtube. So far with Ermine every video I have tried to watch has run perfectly until the browser shuts down. (3) Apps load much faster. (4) I have access to apps that I never had before.

I don't understand why people would throw away their EE or sell it on Ebay for pennies just because the company went out of business. It does everything it did before the company went under and will continue to do so until it breaks. I bought mine for two reasons: (1) so I could look at a file folder full of PDF documents on the e-ink side in direct sunlight and have an easy to navigate table of contents on the LCD side, and (2) I wanted a PDF reader that I could see in direct sunlight (in other words not an LCD) that had a screen which was big enough to actually read an 11 inch PDF without having to scroll all over the place. My EE did both and still does. Nothing else on the market comes anywhere close. The closest is the Kindle DX and that's almost as expensive as an Edge for just one screen. If I wanted the features of a Galaxy, I would have bought a Galaxy. It certainly would have been lighter!!! And besides, I don't think that the EE hardware will handle the demands of an Android 3 or a Honeycomb operating system upgrade. For that we would have had to buy a new machine anyway.

To me the bottom line is if you want to buy a TABLET, buy a tablet and steer clear of the EE or PE. If you want an e-ink reader with a really big screen that comes with a second screen that just happens to run Android Apps, this is a no brainer, even if the company is defunct.