Thread: Onyx Boox M96
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Old 03-18-2014, 03:03 AM   #95
ManDay
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I agree with Mono that flipping speed and scribble are of equal importance compared to screen size. Color, however, I couldn't care less for. All of my (print) books are black-and-white, and I don't have any use for color on the e-reader, either (obviously a matter of preference and which kind of books one reads).

I think, however, that page flipping speed and scribble do not necessarily depend on the speed of the device but rather on a well designed software. Something, that, unfortunately, the M92 suffers a complete lack of.

In fact, although completely satisfied with the hardware of the M92 (and I would recommend that part of the deal to anyone who asks), I can go as far as saying that I would not buy a 13.3" device if it had the M92's software (luckily, since Onyx switches to Android, that is no longer a question).

Indeed, page flipping on the M92 can sometimes be a pain. Something which could readily be alleviated by a working cache/pre-fetch mechanism. Similarly, the scribble application would practically double in usefulness if one could switch line-widths, eraser and pen and even tones of gray with a single click rather than through a cumbersome menu (there would be plenty of space for such buttons at the bottom which, instead, was wasted on an over-sized page indicator). Onyx did not care to consider these issues so the device feels much less responsive and usable than it actually could be made feel.
Needless to say, the ability to insert additional pages for scribbling into a PDF is another feature which was completely overlooked.

In theory, the M92's processor is well capable of delivering a speed which does not seriously impede a natural flow of reading and scribbling, i.e. the kind of experience one has with print books, where flipping pages is an (intuitive) matter of a split second.

Last edited by ManDay; 03-18-2014 at 03:08 AM.
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