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Originally Posted by flibber
Battery/Wifi: I don't accept the life of the battery on the boox. I have a cheap £99 android phone that I can leave the entire weekend on standby while connected to 4g & wifi without issue
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I have a flagship phone: with 4g and GPS on, the original battery would only last a few hours.
This other flagship tablet of mine from a prominent producer has a very conservative battery life on standby - I never turn it off, it may last months unused; this dwarvens the related engineering aspect of that other tablet of mine which should be a paradigm produced under the care and signature of Google, and which on standby and airplane mode, latest firmware, loses full battery charge in a few days. Onyx devices are known for preferring being off more than on standby - this, in a very varied scenario of Android implementations.
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Originally Posted by flibber
$350 screen on a $200 tablet: I fully appriciate the price of the screen but the Boox acts like a $350 screen on a $50 Tablet. If they really have got decent spec hardware inside this thing then they need to sort the firmware ASAP
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I understand what you mean, and in some areas I concur. If you consider my previous post, you may for example conclude that "they went really expensive on the display and really cheap on the capacitive layer overlain" - not all of the touches appear registered (wherever is the fault).
In fact, on a similar regard, I wrote directly to Onyx in the BBS, about the forthcoming "Nova" lacking at least buttons and audio jack:
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The main point is: if you are publishing an attractive device, why do not you publish it with all features, so that you do not have users that go “Oh, unfortunately it is missing an important detail, I will pass”?
The same applies to components in general.
The software quality is slowly increasing.
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Originally Posted by flibber
Not using the boox for what it is meant for: Well, from what i see Boox are selling this product as a android 6 device with full play store capability. I do not see them defining what it should be used for. You cannot really sell a device with the capability to install anything from the play store and then start claiming that you shouldn't?
Besides... one of the main issues with the boox is its built in note taking App... something they made themselves. Even if I didn't install a thing from the play store and I kept the wifi permently turned off, I would still be dissappointed with the implementation and performance of the native features
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And all of that is correct and logical. In fact, of course you should, but experience varies and also does acceptance.
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Originally Posted by flibber
I think the main issue is understanding what this device is supposed to be? [...] If it only has a handfull of apps that you are supposed to use,
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Why should there be any problem in understanding what it is: it is a family of devices that offers both a number of embedded specialized native applications, with varying results, and the flexibility of installing third party ones, with varying results. The user is expected to decide if the experience is good enough for him - as you did.
I think the goal is excellent. The results are realistic.