Actually I had a lot of respect regarding earlier activities of GoodEreader guys and was expecting more seriosity from their new 13.3" Good-E-reader-Netronix project. Since I am involved in development and distribution of e-readers for quite long time, I was curious about this project, watched it for months and sadly I have to say I am quite disappointed now. What I have seen in the time was kind of unrealistic promises and "alternative facts".
They promised, when they have fulfilled goal of $100k, they were going to change the Android version of their upcoming device to 5.1.1
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It was impossible and they knew it! The goal has been achieved in short time. Until now they have collected over $300k and there is still 4.0.4. We are working for at least two years now to take into account all the factors of the hardware to migrate to 4.4. Upgrading of current hardware to 5.1.1 would be just impossible.
Their scheduled delivery "should be ready for shipping at latest in September 2016". I assume a lot of backers would think twice before placing of their orders, if they knew it will be rather May of 2017 for most of them.
As I mentioned to the time, those 13.3" screen with capacitive layer were not available for mass production yet. Not before the end of the 2016.
According to their updates on Indiegogo until now they got from Netronix just about 155 -160 items.
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However they are reporting: "...Over the course of the past seven days we have shipped off hundreds of e-readers ...", which does not sound really credible.
Additionally, I noticed they are removing all comments about cancelling of orders and all requests for refund. Moderating this kind of of user's comments is very suspicious and is kind of unfair especially because they are using this crowd funding platform to promote and to finance their business idea. Because of editing of negative comments it looks like they just manipulate decisions of prospective backers.
I don't know. Perhaps making of unrealistic promises and dealing with "alternative facts" is getting more popular in some countries nowadays. There are eventually plenty of gullible people in the world. However IMHO the thing does not taste really good.