[Wong McGregor]

Originally Posted by franzli

I'm still hoping for a slightly more powerful CPU.

Yes - I actually think that much of the scope for improvement lies in the SOC as a whole, which could have a big impact on tasks other than just reading, such as writing on such devices (for those who are interested in this sort of unusual use case):

Originally Posted by franzli

I was hoping to use a Linux chroot for writing LaTeX documents on the T68+. It's sort of possible, but you clearly notice the slowness

I have similar ambitions.

Are you saying that even a text editor is slow on such a device or do you think it's the slow screen refresh rate that makes it slow?

It would be interesting to know how long it takes to compile a LaTeX document on one of these things. Have you tried that or are you only interested in the composition which is presumably all your really need. Just curious.

Originally Posted by franzli

(also the old android version gets in the way of getting my German keyboard properly set up...).

Yes - android seems to littered with these sort of problems.

I get these hopes from Kozlowski but I have no idea how credible he is:

http://goodereader.com/blog/electron...dustry-in-2015

There are only a few innovative things happening in the e-reader industry that might give people a reason to upgrade their old devices. One thing I am very bullish on is the new Freescale IMX 7 dual core processor. It was designed to improve upon existing technology and they worked in concert with e-Ink to power the next generation of e-paper.

Freescale told me during the product announcement that one of the prolific changes will be page refresh rates. The rate in which page turn speeds occur heavily depend upon the waveform that the e-Reader uses. The update times can range between 125 mSec – 500 mSec. By integrating the REGAL waveform support in hardware, Freescale are taking away any additional time that would be added due to Algorithm processing on the Cortex-A core, hence a savings of up to 150 mSec.

Solving the page turn program is a big step forward, but that’s not the only thing that is being remedied with this new processor. Ghosting will also be solved with this framework, which is a huge deal. Normally with e-readers you will have a full page refresh every six pages or in some cases every chapter. The reason for this, is the longer the display goes without a full page refresh text gradually starts super imposing itself. I have never liked full page refreshes, as it breaks reading immersion. Now, this will also be fixed, which means less full page refreshes because again, its now hardware based, instead of software.

Likely the largest innovation in the IMX product line is the support for hardware dithering. This will allow e-reader companies that work with the Linux or Android platforms to be able to include animated content. This will include truly animated page turns, interactive menus and video. Freescale showed me somethings I can’t write about, but needless to say I saw fully streaming video on an e-reader and it looked awesome.

I can't say that I'm looking forward to animated menus, but the possibility of higher refresh rates could very interesting for more interactive uses such as writing.