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Originally Posted by TechniSol
"Well, to address your first concern, you need some technical skill to upgrade the internal SD card. You can't simply swap a new card in."
Don't teach yer granpaw to suck eggs...
HMMMMPH, about as much technical skill as it takes to Google the topic and find similar processes in practically any Chinese clone tablet forum... I've seen step by step procedures laid out that almost anyone could follow for just this sort of thing on any number of android based tablets with either Windoze or Linux tools and done similar for my first android tablet a couple of years ago. I'm just a little awed that anyone would try to make a buck off such a simple process rather than just spell it out as has been done all over the net.
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The majority of consumers are not comfortable running command line arguments or disassembling their devices. Even just doing the research on google is something many people are not inclined towards. That being said, I was one of the first people to post the details of doing this mod online and I recommend anyone who is comfortable with it to give the upgrade a shot themselves. I think nearly anyone is capable, but by that same measure I think nearly anyone can change their oil, upgrade their RAM and cut their hair but we still have mechanics, technicians and barbers and nobody gives them a hard time as long as their prices are fair.
Having posted this same poll here and on another forum I've seen quite a varied response. The less technically savvy average user of mobileread - no offense to the users of mobileread, there are plenty of you who are quite savvy and really I'm sure you're all brilliant at plenty of things I'm rubbish at - seem completely against this idea but users on other sites like 1337.com seem to indicate there may be a market for this sort of thing.
The most commonly cited reason for people wanted the upgrade surprised me a bit. It seems people are annoyed about the way the Kobo readers scan an SD card when inserted. For large SD cards this can take a long time and having more internal memory would allow for less need to swap cards.
Personally, I really only saw a big benefit in terms of the Vox but most Vox users seemed uninterested. Really, a lot of interesting points on both sides.