I must say I have never used the provided email client and the browser but went straight away for my personal favourites (because with Android I can) so I thought, oops, they must be really horrible. I fired up Onyx browser, well, nothing exciting there going on really, it's a shell for webpages and it just works. A bit ill chosen colouring of the address bar and suggestions but other than that seems ok.
So I moved on to the email client, set-up my account with no problems, made one mistake, it gracefully pointed out the error, then downloaded all my mail and actually looks like a decent piece of software. The layout is simple but clean, I quite like it at the first glance. So in the whole 15 minutes I spent with the two apps nothing bad happened, lucky me? And I'm still on quite ancient 2014-10-13 fw release.
When you then mention "quirkiness" it doesn't really mean anything to me. I would again recommend listing any problems you encounter on
the bugs page.
Regarding the other things, to me that's not *basic* - the 6" Kindle is basic. Anyway, you say it all in the past tense so I gather it all got sorted out in the end? Instead of being happy that things got fixed, you mention old bugs, what's the point?
I don't really know what DPT-S1 can or cannot do, I can only rely on
helpful reviews like this one until it becomes affordable one day, but it doesn't seem that by making it basic they made it perfect:
- 15 minutes to search a book. I tried with M96, chose a unique word on p. 388, went back to the front cover - it took 1m30s to find it.
- Zooming slow and tricky apparently.
- Multiple pages on screen, a cool feature but doesn't work well they say.
- Unable to make notes when zoomed. Works on my M96.
I'm not saying the M96 is perfect but it is not bad, and *both* devices have issues, even the product of rich Sony corp has issues. Let's be fair then. I'm sure the problems will get fixed in both devices, it's just software, and kudos to both companies that they keep working on ereaders.