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Originally Posted by Gilmartin
Are Kobo and Amazon devices any more stable? If so I might be tempted to ditch my T1, although I'll likely wait until autumn to see what the market has to offer then. Probably the T3, PW2 and "new" Kobo will be on the market by that time, if past years are anything to go by.
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My Kobo Mini was 25% the price I once paid for the T1.... It crashed on none of my ebooks yet. Some are free, some have Adobe DRM and some have been converted to epub from PDF or Kindle via Calibre.
The question is, which screen size do you want. I fell in love with 5 inches and there are not many options in that region. Pocketbook has just released a new 5 inch reader, but it doesn't have a touch screen.
For 6 inches, there will be new devices soon, but I think they won't beat the Pocketbook 623.
More than 6 inches - different story.
Regarding updates - the T1 received 5 updates - until the T2 appeared - nothing fancy, no new features, just minor bug fixing and finally closing the jailbreak backdoor.
Kobo does update older devices, too.
I have a Sony Smartphone, too - but luckily there is Cyanogenmod, Freexperia, Legacyxperia and friends. Otherwise I'd still be bound to Sony's bloated, slow and buggy ICS 4.0.4. At least, Sony provides an option to unlock the boot loader, so rooting is not a problem there...
But build quality is definitely on of Sony's biggest strengths.