I'm about sure my next ebook will be an Onyx, but I still have some questions, one about Onyx readers in general, one on the i62, and one that I'll have to decide on all by myself
1) How does dictionary look-up work in Onyx reader? Can you tap on the word you want the definition of, and than choose the dictionary (translatiion or definition), or do you have to open a dictionary and tap in the searched for word?
2) Which shop does give me the right specs, or are there different models of the i62HD?
The shops I found in the Netherlands that carry the i62 HD, give an internal storage of 4 GB (
Eas-e-reader.nl and
e-readerweb.nl)
The first shops tells the box includes a cover, the second one wants you to buy a cover seperately...
According to
e-readerstore.de, the internal storage is 8 GB (but since this store has the storage size in the product-name, it might mean that the 'normal' i62HD has another/smaller internal storage. This shop too, says that the cover is included.
The prices are somewhat different too:
ereader-store.de: € 159.00 + € 9.90 shipping (but this low price is only temporarily) (€ 168.90)
eas-e-reader.nl: € 155.00 + € 9.95 cover + € 12.80 shipping (if I'd have it shipped to my home. I work in the Netherlands, and shipping to my office is € 5.95) (€ 177.75 /170.90)
e-readerweb.nl: € 189.00, shipping free in the Netherlands and Belgium, but even then it's about € 20.00 more expensive.
So, if the specs are true on all those sites, the reader with the largest internal memory, shipped internationally, is cheaper than those with only half the storage, shipped within the Netherlands.
I don't really care about the size of the internal storage. After all, even 4 GB is quite a lot, and there always is the SD-card slot.
3) But I do care about the quality of after-sales, and so I'd like to hear some opinions.
Only based on the sites themselves, I tend towards e-reader-store.de (cheapest), who only caries pocketbook and onyx (and whose owner is rather active on mobileread.com), and eas-e-reader (the most expensive), who decided only recently to add an onyx-reader to their collection 'because it is the reader that combines the best of Kobo, Nook, and Sony' (i.e. it seems that they give priority to quality).
I've less trust in e-readerweb which seems to carry 'everything available', also because they try to sell you a seperate cover, even if that seems included in the box, according to the other sites...
4) And my last question:
Should I decide for the i62HD, or wait for the first reviews of the FireFly, risking that the price for the i62HD will be more expensive (since the present price is only temporarily) by that time? I fear that you can't answer that question for me
