One "feature" of the CoolEr is that it doesn't use a database to track your books - it just displays the actual folder structure (filtered, though).
Makes it easy to sort stuff, probably makes it harder (if not impossible) to do any real search. Perhaps the reason Kobo went with database instead.
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Originally Posted by taming
My sense is that the deal is that they have one development team and that they will almost always be assigned to working on the newer hardware, rather than adapting/rejigging for the older stuff.
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Well, they could open the sources to old nickel, surely there are enough interested people who'd enhance the old software.
(Of course, it WOULD mean opening the sources - something few companies ever dare, because it might ?? (no clue actually. I don't see a reason not to open it)).
Personally - perhaps from a naive point of view - I would have thought that Nickel should be hardware independent. Apparently it isn't, which makes it impossible to give older devices the new software.
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Originally Posted by Lordvic
The original Kobo came out a while ago. The Wifi itself has been other at least a year. The technologies have advanced dramatically in the short time. Not just screen technology but processors, memory, and who knwos what else.
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Personal opinion ahead: I recently tried my Elonex EB600 again (with CoolEr Software), and it did feel a bit faster than the Kobo Wifi.
(Of course, I did fool around on my Kobo and might have ruined something somewhere).
Aside from that, yes hardware progresses - the WiFi CPU seems to be almost overkill (unless I misread that hardware spec), and the Touch CPU seems to be designed for eInk even.
But in any case, it doesn't really matter - what people seem to want isn't that much speed related, but features.
No hardware could keep the software from being able to search, or look up a dictionary.
It might be slow, but it would be possible.
Of course, the real problem might be that it's always cheaper to throw in more hardware than to spend more time developing.
If the Kobo Touch Nickel is written specifically for this device (I'm not talking about the CPU, but the rest of it), then it would be impossible to simply take it back to the Gen 1 Kobo - unless you actually rewrote parts of it.
So in part, it would be a hardware problem :-D
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Originally Posted by m_bisson
Why do you need all these extra features that regular paper books don't have?
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Well, what do we "need" instead of air to breathe and basic food to survive? :-/
An eBook could be the next generation of the printed book. Why artificially limit them?