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Originally Posted by krewskater
It sounds like you didn't read up on the device enough before purchasing it. When you consider the fact that it uses a Wacom digitizer under the e-ink screen you can't really call the stylus "non-standard" unless the standard you are comparing it to is regular touchscreen devices (in which case the comparison makes no sense). USB charging would not have been too hard to integrate, I'm not sure why they didn't do this and I'm not fully up to spec with the eDge's hardware but the DC charger runs 12V/1A and USB outputs 5 V, again they could've made it work and I don't know why they didn't. As for marketplace, I may be wrong because I'm new to the Android scene but when this was originally released Marketplace didn't support tablets (again I could be wrong) and there were some issues between enTourage/Google as far as licensing and fees go, with the influx of new owners from the Woot specials it seems like the dev community is picking up and a custom ROM with market (that doesn't require another account/using an emulator workaround/other droid device) shouldn't be too far off.
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Doing charging over USB would have been very hard, not only is it only 5V(which wont power the LCD on its own and would need to be stepped up a lot), when plugged into a computer its only 500mA, meaning that you would at best get a trickle charge if your device was hibernating, not what users expect, and they would end up getting quite a few angry people wondering why their device isn't charging when its plugged into a computer.