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Old 11-07-2014, 03:04 AM   #68
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Originally Posted by Teknikal View Post
I think Sony went to Android without providing the hardware to run it properly their T range were just too under powered and because of it crash prone.

I wasn't surprised at all when they lost the market but up until the end I kept hoping they would take it seriously.
It's how they locked down the firmware after people started to root them that annoys me the most.

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Originally Posted by auspex View Post
Well, I'd love that too. Unfortunately, they closed the loophole that allowed T1s to be rooted shortly after releasing the T2s, and my version can't be rooted (or at least nobody has figured out how to do so up to May of this year, when I last tried).

Honestly, if Sony wanted to buy some goodwill, they'd put out one last software upgrade that made it posssible to root all the Sony Android readers.
It's really a shame what Sony did to PRS-T1 and T2. They might as well leave the reader with the old firmware or disable rooting in the first place. I don't see how messing with the current users will help with future sales.

Lesson learned: it's probably better to avoid companies who tend to locked down their software/hardware. That's one of the reasons I'm not getting the Kindle Voyage. I don't fancy being spied on by Amazon either.
PRS-T1 till I get a Aura H2O or something similar.
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