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Old 07-10-2014, 05:17 PM   #9
Feher
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Device: Onyx Boox M92; Onyx Boox i86ML; Kobo Aura H2O; Dasung Paperlike
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Originally Posted by Purple Lady View Post
I am sensitive to bright light and mine is OK for me on the lowest setting in a dark room. The second setting is way brighter. I bought at Amazon - is this one of the differences between the two?

I'm curious about the settings menu on the other model. I was looking at the manual and it shows the standard Android settings menu - is this incorrect in the manual or is that another difference? The settings menu I get is completely different.
Thanks to you also for your views on Frontlight

Regarding device differences: Both the devices are essentially the same. So there shouldn't be any difference in hardware or even in software i.e. the settings menus should be same in both. The difference will be in how frequently they will get updates.

As far as i know Onyx devices are mainly sold through 4 distribution channels:
1) Artatech (based in Poland) - they sell on various Amazon sites also
2) Booxtor in Germany
3) Russia
4) China (Aliexpress, eBay etc)

How the firmware differs:
Devices bought from Booxtor and straight from various Chinese sellers have sort of like vanilla flavor of firmware without any additions.
Artatech gives additional Ivona TTS software.
Russia will have many versions of the same device : with/without touch; with/without audio speaker etc. Their firmware is tailored accordingly.

This is what happened previously when Onyx eReaders had linux firmware:
Booxtor used to provide us with updates very frequently. There used to be weekly patches and then final builds. Artatech used to release final builds only, after a gap of 1 or 2 months. In android terminology, I can say that one distributor is providing us with developer ROM and other is giving us a Stable build.


Edit:
Differences in linux builds were large, I believe that there won't be any differences in Android builds. But i maybe wrong.
I don't wish to favor one distributor over the other, because i may know only one side of the story. So please take my opinions with a pinch of salt and wait for other users' opinions.

Last edited by Feher; 07-10-2014 at 05:33 PM.
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