I've only had a few hours with my new FHD2, but I really like it, starting with the price ($119 on Cyber Monday sale). The reading app is much more full-featured than I had expected, lacking in only a couple of things I've become accustomed to on PW1, and with the much superior Ivona TTS and wonderful narration enablement. I love being able to switch between books quickly (via task switcher instead of having to navigate to Home page), and having separate notes and bookmarks lists is a nice refinement (bookmarks have been too hard to navigate to to be useful). I think my PW is going to be getting lonely.
I did run into a couple of issues:
- I could not get it to accept my 63 character wifi passcode and connect. I checked, rechecked my typing, but it just would not go. I think I had the same issue with PW but it supports connection with WPS (why not Fire? grr). So my workaround was to connect to guest (outbound only) network for now.
[Update: Finally logged into the router, copied the passcode and pasted it to a doc, opened that on the Fire copy/paste and it took. So I apparently mis-typed. ]
- I was having issue downloading .mobi from web pages, but figured that out. I think Google Drive does not set the correct mimetime so the file ends up with .bin instead of .mobi (epub and pdf download fine). Renaming and moving to /Documents seems to work (it then shows in Docs list). Other web pages (gutenburg) don't require rename.
Last edited by tomsem; 12-09-2013 at 01:59 AM.
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