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Originally Posted by max99
Looks like this update is a a bit of a flop. Yet again the greedy Amazon fails to produce a universal update for their line of devices. Cloud collections should be available on every Kindle device, not just the ones Amazon want you to buy.
Yet again we see no support for the Kindle DXG, despite Amazon still selling it. Can anyone give me a valid explanation for why the DXG cannot support Cloud collections, and why they still haven't allowed it access to Personal Docs from the device itself?
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Interestingly there is now a fork between PW1 and PW2 firmwares too, not only does not PW1 have any of the new PW2 features yet, it has one PW2 doesn't have even in 5.4.2: "None" option for Reading Progress. That is an odd one, but tells us those firmwares have been developed separately. Apparently PW1 and PW2 firmwares were forked because the latter uses newer kernel and a newer type of CPU. I wonder if they merge them back later or if this separation will continue.
Of course Amazon has had such splits or forks before and the DXG you mention falls victim to one of those. DXG is basically a facelifted Kindle 2 with a big screen and runs Kindle 2 software. It has less memory than Kindle 3 or 4, so it never got all the stuff 3 and 4 did - and it is by now so obsolete - considering not even 3/4S/4B have been updated in some time - I don't expect DXG to get any more updates really. They are just getting rid of old stock. The touch Kindles again were forked in software, leaving Kindle 3 and 4 with similar, but dead-ended firmwares - only Kindle Touch, PW1 and PW2 got the "new Kindle UX".
Now it is interesting to see if Kindle Touch and PW1 were dead-ended firmware-wise with the release of PW2, or if they will get some more goodies. I think Kindle Touch will probably be left behind, but there is still some hope for PW1 I guess that maybe the development is just lagging behind or intentionally delayed for the benefit of PW2.