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Originally Posted by BettyE
No way to upgrade, even paying a fee to add memory.... They must have known about the memory issue for future upgrades even when they launched the PRS 500.
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As a 505 owner myself, I feel that pain too, however there are a couple of points that occur to me.
The first is that there may not physically be a way to upgrade the memory in the 500's without essentially replacing all their innards. The board is pretty tightly packed, and there are all sorts of ways for a seemingly straightforward upgrade to not be possible. I don't know that this is the case here, but I have no trouble seeing the possibility.
As to what they "must have known" two years ago, before DE existed, so well before the requirements for its support were known by
anyone ... well, I just can't bring myself to fault them for not possessing that level of precognizance. I see the argument that they might have put more memory in the device as a safeguard against future need, but these devices were already at the upper end of the manageable price range, in my opinion.
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Originally Posted by BettyE
This is not the first time Sony left me high and dry - They abandoned the Clie line of PDAs, too.
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Amazon doesn't have a spotless record here either, perhaps it didn't affect you or me, but Amazon has abandoned and cut off their e-book customers before.
In any case, you've got to do what seems best to you, and it sounds like that's what your doing. I do sincerely hope that you are satisfied with your Kindle for a very long time
... and that Amazon doesn't disappoint you with a similar lack of precognizance.
