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Originally Posted by machinogodzilla
You can't blame the device just because some 3rd party apps that are not optimised for it don't work well there.
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The e-mail app is not 3rd party, neither is the web-browser. They are in-built so I think I CAN blame Onyx for their quirkiness. As I said, they are ok for occasional use. But a bit sluggish... The e-mail app, though usable, doesn't really seem as if it was designed for e-ink.
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Originally Posted by machinogodzilla
And what is wrong with the pdf *reading* experience on M96. It opens documents and you can browse documents, as far as this particular functionality is concerned is there any problem there?
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The list of things wrong with the M96 when I first bought it was quite long. Highlighting worked randomly, scribbling was buggy, there were no export options, reflow was buggy, cropping was buggy. The responsiveness of the screen was poor, as was touch accuracy. The dictionary didn't work the way it was supposed to... I had the ArtaTech version, but they get their "special flavour" of firmware from Onyx so I still blame Onyx. It took ArtaTech some time to post an update fixing the basic bugs but if you go to their site the last firmware update is from September. It's a stable update but it still doesn't have export options for scribbling, highlighting bugs are plenty, and it's impossible to simultaneously view the dictionary and the book. Of course you can use the firmware from onyx international (as I did), but one has to know how to do change it. What's more it cancels the warranty.
The 1.7.0 firmware really fixed a lot. Now it's good device on the whole, but the months preceding the update were really frustrating. I still don't like the way M96 enters scribble mode - single tap anywhere. It's a problem because I keep entering the mode by accident or by clicking "ok" in the menus etc. and in scribble mode the d-pad, menu and highlighting (duh) are disabled. It's a real distraction if you highlight a lot, so I'm still waiting for some final touches from onyx international...
To extend the kindle comparison. When I bought the PW2 (after a year of some pretty dreadful experience with the onyx i62) everything, bar some occasional memory issues, worked fine out of the box. The firmware updates basically made the device better. Perhaps saying things like "a new kindle HDX would be a better device than the M96" is stupid wishful thinking - the onyx exists, the kindle in question does not, and may never come to be - but that's just my comment on the production strategies of the two manufacturers.