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They are selling a product to be taken into a plane's cockpit, but sometimes the wireless won't shut down, and the usable time is 25% of what is advertised. This won't work. Never.
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It might be going into aircraft cockpits but it is NOT CERTIFIED, and is used only as a convenience, specifically just keeps from having to carry pounds of approach plates/documentation etc. It is used in general aviation aircraft (small private aircraft) only and not in air carrier operations - airliners (yet).
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No, they are selling it right now on MyAirplane.com, and they claim it has 21 hours battery life. Aircraft magazines will test software 2.5. They have customers that didn't say they knew the software wasn't ready. They need stable software right now, and have lousy programmers.
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The eFlyBook is from what we have seen the first "B2B" product that has been released. Who knows to what extent this device is really ready for prime time.
Actually the eFlyBook uses a different firmware version that is specific to the format that their content is published in. I was told this by someone at Myairplane.com. I could not get a lot of information from him regarding differences or the capability of the unit currently as he was at the world's largest general aviation airshow (Oshkosh) at the time he answered the phone and was quite busy. I would not think that there would be too many differences in firmware other than the ability to read a different file type.
This is all of course an assumption. ARINC's involvement in the project might have a much bigger impact on their specific firmware. ARINC is a large corporation and have set standards in the aviation industry including a number of avionics interface/bus protocols. We do not know what kind of SDK might have been made available to them, if at all. One could assume that they have a large technical talent pool that might be up to the task of implementing their own iLiad firmware. This again is an assumption. In the end only iRex knows.
I "signed" a disclaimer to get this unit and as such I guess I will have to either wait for iRex or all you talented hackers to get the functionality that I desire. Maybe we should all practice a little patience.