Hmm... further analysis of the build numbers and dates suggests it's nothing like as regular as I suggested.
The build numbers are almost certainly daily build numbers, incrementing for each day since development (or rather, numbering builds) started. Using the build numbers and a few guesses, we can attach firmer dates to each build. If the build number increments every day (as seems likely) the build dates for each version are no later than:
476: 10 Oct 2007
538: 11 Dec 2007
674: 25 Apr 2008
685: 6 May 2008 (released on 7 May, so can't be later)
708: 29 May 2008
796: 25 Aug 2008
802: 31 Aug 2008
And we can get days between releases just by subtracting build numbers. So between 'major' releases, we have 62 days, 147 days, 23 days and 88 days.
Bookeen's internal current build number must be around 860 now.
So, despite the irregular release dates, I'm rather more optimistic that we'll see a new firmware release in December. (Or possibly very late November.)
Amazing what one can come up with, playing with numbers.
Paul
Quote:
Originally Posted by pdurrant
Of course, we have no idea how long "shortly" will be. But perhaps we can guess.
CyBook Gen 3 released in October 2007
firmware 538 was in late December 2007
firmware 685 was released on 7 May 2008
firmware 708 was released on 25 June 2008
firmware 796 was released on 5 September 2008
Ignoring the 708 release, which was mostly just to fix a power consumption problem in 685, we have roughly
3 months
4 months
4 months
between releases.
So perhaps the next firmware release will happen in December?
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