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Well, my A2 Pro finally arrived the other day... My initial impression was that Apple and Samsung needn't worry too much about losing market share to this device... However, those first impressions were based primarily on the poor English of the interface and the cheap case and trinkets which I received with it.
Having since uninstalled or disabled many of the unnecessary apps, and having now installed my preferred ones as well as some content, the A2 Pro has begun to really impress me.
It is surprisingly fast and responsive. Because of this, reading Japanese on it is actually quite pleasurable. If a word or phrase does not register in the look-up dictionary in Moon+ Reader, I can can readily copy and paste it into one of my other apps. Hopping between apps like that is really not much of an issue. My KA1, which I use primarily for reading Japanese, might soon get relegated to a bookshelf.
Also, although not a huge fan of computerized voices, the TTS functionality on the device works quite well. At least for my limited trial with English and Japanese.
One feature which I really like is being able to so easily pin a screenshot to the lockscreen on the eink side of the device. I can see that coming in very handy when one wants to have certain information such as a map available, but also wants to conserve the battery life. I hope that Onyx will eventually borrow that idea and incorporate it into their larger devices where it would be incredibly useful.
And although I would ideally prefer a dedicated eink device with a frontlight, the colour amoled screen does not annoy me as much as I expected it to.
With each passing day, I am becoming more and more pleased with this purchase.
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