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Originally Posted by SnowRipple
I don't want to spam this thread, but I just saw video from Hongkong show from Onyx and it leaves new Sony e-reader way behind.
For a similar price you get so much more, mainly Android and possibility of a screen mirroring. The latency seems really nice as well.
Supporting only pdfs in 2017 is like a slap in the face for e-ink enthusiasts around the world.
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How is the Onyx device offering "so much more"? What exactly is so much?
I rather think it's the other way around, as far as quality is concerned there is no way Onyx can compete with Sony. I know the Onyx devices (had an M92) and I can assert that their built quality is real bad, 100% plastic-rubber-housings with a software that is outright amateurish. For my experience with the M92, it witnessed two years of rather helpless software updates, each fixing up the bugs introduced by the previous and adding half-finished, buggy features in an awfully inconsistent user interface.
And from the looks of it, the 13.3 device sports just the newest iteration of that crap.
The DPT-S1, on the other hand, brilliant build quality with a lightweight aluminium or titanium alloy housing (the furnish was a bit sub-par though) and a software which is thought-out, consistent and was polished from the start. Sure, in the long run I wished for a few features that had not been there (screen mirroring, e-mail client, usb keyboard, etc.) but as far as the intended design was concerned, it had everything that was needed, with almost no bugs at all, right from the beginning. Plus, for the RP1 they seem to have added a lot of those features which I thought were missing in the DPT-S1.
Since my S1 is still running like on the first day, I don't see myself buying a RP1 anytime soon. But should I ever be tempted, for the higher resolution for example, I certainly wouldn't even think about going for the Onyx. Sony may have crappy customer support and weird retail channels and whatnot, but with this series of devices here, they are very much nailing it, flawlessly.