This is fantastic, Booxtor. A few thoughts:
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Great news is also that Onyx recently hired a very experienced product designer. New designs correspond to the most modern top level in appearance and functionality
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The main concern here is functionality. Professional use was pointed out, was not it.
In fact,
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Also in the 8" range, there will soon be a successor to the very successful i86.
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Hardware buttons? SD Card? These are functionality issues that received a blow in the recent products.
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We also talked about the devices with 10.7 "EINK color screens and built-in front light.
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I cannot find information about such a display... Is it not for public sale from E-Ink?
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once the former products’ pricing reaches multi-purpose open device levels, that's what people will expect from them
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Well, the expectation does not come from the price.
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if the Note was 250-300 [...] it would be a much more attractive device right now
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The ES103TC1, "10.3˝ ePaper Display / Display Module Only", costs $349 on Eink's website. The screen alone costing 350$, the message underlying the conditional, involving impossibility ("If sold well below production cost"), seems unclear.
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Originally Posted by charliebub
that's not finished in terms of the very basics of it's intended purpose/s...
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Running an OS? It runs it.
"Intended purpose/s" is not the same as "foremost fitting application".
And by the way, if I reason "Is bi-stable and has processor, hence good for elaborating and contemplating" I really immediately think "then good for text editing": cutting short of full modelling towards deterministic, not heuristic analysis, personal concern is met, which varies.
(And by the way, I have never met a "finished" product, and I have evaluated quite a few.)
Myself, I am in this phase in deep activity, which means that my foremost complaint can be with the shortcomings of Kingsoft Office or the sadly cramped Android software park, which has little to do with Onyx. But this is not fully so. For example, I would like to be able to use other Office Automation packages when beneficial - I am especially thinking of Andropen Office, but it does not work properly on the Max2 (it flashes). Or, WPS Office greys the text in some views (because designers by trend look instead of using), but Onyx could provide a global setting to "just double contrast everywhere", and that would even solve "silver on snow" websites (now half of them) and all similar problems elsewhere.
So, I think that the main progress that should be now wished from Onyx is to boost Quality Assurance. Which means ensuring that the hardware is solid, that the main default applications do their job, but also that the capabilities (the OS) are as full as possible - read, "USB networking", "lock/encryption" and all other normal OS functions that may have been disabled or broken -, and this also means trying to ensure that the largest possible software park works on the device - optimizing Theme/Styles to break the visual of as little apps as possible, assessing behaviours such as that mentioned of Andropen Office etc.