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Old 02-18-2015, 10:18 PM   #13
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Location: New Zealand
Device: Onyx Boox Poke 5, Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e 10.5
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Originally Posted by pickyaxe View Post
How can people here still recommend/buy Onyx devices after the T68?
How? Speaking as a potential buyer:
  1. Most manufacturers, if they are around for long enough, produce the occasional 'lemon' product model.
  2. The manufacturers least likely to produce the occasional lemon, the big players like Amazon and Kobo, tend to produce readers that conflict with my 3 core requirements: (i) physical page turn buttons/sensors; (ii) directory-based navigation; & (iii) FBReader, or something very similar. I would rather have a reader that does what I want it to imperfectly, than one that does what I don't want it to perfectly.
  3. Of its main competitors in the field of readers-that-do-what-I-want, Pocketbook has an even worse track-record than Onyx of producing duds (and arguably hasn't produced a competitive reader since the 360). The other main competitor, Boyue, seems to have only produced a only very small number of reader models, so it's lack of a dud product is hardly telling.
  4. I've yet to see a comparison review claim that the T68 is unambiguously worse than the Inkpad (it's main competitor from Pocketbook).
For these reasons, I will continue to look closely at Onyx for the replacement for my i62HD, when I wear it out.
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