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Originally Posted by kacir
Well ... I am not so sure.
Germany has very strong customer protecting laws, so I do not expect that when a bezel cracks, or paint starts to peel or something they can refuse warranty repair on basis of rooting the device.
When the device dies completely, I do not think they would do a forensic analysis to find out whether it was rooted or not.
The only scenario where I can see rooting voiding warranty is when you root it and then complain that the reader started to act weird.
I believe there are German speaking forums that deal with the rooting of Tolinos. I tried to follow when the first two generations were introduced and hacked / rooted.
You might try to read how difficult and irreversible the rooting is. I am pretty sure that they did also discuss the warranty problem. There must be somebody with rooted device who tried to claim warranty.
If you buy a second-hand device, it is cheaper, and one of the [many] reasons is that you do not pay warranty. I do not know what the second-hand market in Germany looks like.
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Originally Posted by kacir
One more thing.
There are other devices that come with Android that you can access without rooting and hacking. Like boyue from Chinese on-line stores. Good luck claiming warranty after more than a few months;-)
There is also Onyx Boox, but I am not sure I would recommend that.
I had an opportunity to play with their early 8" devices and the software was really flaky.
I own their Inkphone - it was a disaster hardware-wise and the software was *atrocious*.
I had a chance to play with their newest Onyx Boox Max 2 with 13.3" screen that can also work as a display for PC. It is a very nice hardware, but I can't say anything about software, because during 15 minutes od playing with the device you have no chance to really test anything. Especially not installing random software from Google Play or sideloaded apk files.
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Thanks for your detailed advice.
Guarantee and warranty differ in Germany: Warranty is low-protected, guarantee is provided freely. If I'll by an Onyx reader, I'll probably get one at ereader.store, and the warranty limitations seem to be pretty relaxed.
However, all Android readers differ some problems: Some devices have just 512MB RAM (which is very low), others seem to suffer display stability (e.g. Onyx C67ML), and some are relinquishing hardware buttons for page turning and suffer providing accurate on-touch solutions (at least according to some reviews, especially for the Boyue Paper / Likebook Plus).
Edit: I'm going for the Kepler Pro, as it seems to be the best 6 inch device available.