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Originally Posted by bob_ninja
However, I wouldn't be too quick to give up on DR!!! As the other thread points out, you can have some AAs recharge DR and extend runtime a great deal when away from a PC. I think the entire battery/runtime issue needs to be measured against the benefits (like PDF handling which is far superior to my Cybook). Perhaps its features are more important than the short runtime.
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I'm certainly not giving on the DR just yet. I bought it to read A4 and it's great for that.
But iRex cannot make the same mistakes all over again, and they have.
Wanna hear something really scary, I have it on good authority that iRex is explicitly using the term
beta firmware with their retail chain.
Do you realize the significance of this?
This makes us beta testers, which I'm not, beta testers don't pay for product testing, they get the product for free (maybe with a deposit) and sign NDAs.
They simply cannot do that. (again)
The first time they were protected because most of the customers signed a release. But this time I haven't and this is false advertisement.
No need to lie. They could have said look here is our reader we expect 12h of battery life. and with that info it was up to me to decide if it was worth €600. But by inflating perceived value they are effectively stealing from me.
Again, I got my DR because I thought that given iRex's history they simply could not afford to get power management wrong, again, to lie to their customers (again),
I thought they'd rather ship the DR with a car battery if they had to.
Now it looks like we are the ones getting
external batteries anyway.
I'm not giving them a free pass this time, either they fix it. or give partial refund, or I will notify EU's consumer protection authorities.
I'm not saying I don't like my DR, I'm just saying that iRex simply cannot do this. They should have launched DR in December.They have rushed the product and they shouldn't have.