Following from my previous post, what I can mention is that I'm still waiting for them to get the parts needed to complete my repair request. I'm hoping they'll get back to me this week!
However, while they offered to upgrade me to an Alita if I paid some amount of money (they didn't tell me), I declined and resisted, for several reasons:
- No page keys, so I'd have to run an overlay app in order to take screenshots. (EDIT 2: It turns out that they placed a "screenshot" toggle in the notification shade, but only in the 2.x firmware)
- I don't like the default case included with the Alita, however, i do believe I can use cases intended for stuff like the reMarkable 1st generation and Boox Note series, as long as it's a case with a sticky pad rather than a moulded holder
- I'd rather get a Boox Note2 rather than a Likebook Alita, as I don't see much of a difference between the two, though I still wish Onyx at least included memory card slots on their Boox devices. I could get one of the former, but the problem for me is that it'd blow a massive hole in my savings. As for the Boox Note Pro, that lacks USB hosting support which I'd want for my research project, while the Note2 runs on Onyx's newer hardware platform that I think uses rejected Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 chips (I can't confirm for obvious reasons) where the cellular and/or camera components had failed factory tests, and so Onyx disabled those in their Android software. I would've liked Onyx to make more use of the SoCs they put in their devices, and I'm hoping they do so with a possible "Boox Note2 Pro" that could have a colour display with a greyscale mode, which in turn would really benefit me as someone who primarily reads comics, oh yeah, a memory card slot and a few other features I wish for.
Today is also the beginning of a "circuit breaker" lockdown period in Singapore, where I live, that sounds comparable to similar things in the UK, US, and Italy, based on what I heard on Twitter. As part of that, I decided to stick to what I currently have and just read on those. More info
here.
At least I have a Kobo e-reader that's new enough to have OverDrive integration, and the way I've been using mine is to borrow on Libby, then sync on Kobo. However. I do prefer to read comics at close to print size, so it's a little hard for me to do so with the 6" display of the Kobo Clara HD (I mainly bought it to use as part of my book research), but it can be done as the 300ppi display it has makes text readable, but I would've had to zoom in on the older 212ppi and 167ppi displays. Additionally, my tablet has a cracked screen protector (I haven't posted a photo of that yet), which may impede reading, but it's what I'll have to live with as I generate a lot of dust that would affect me installing screen protectors.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that someone dumped a firmware image
here, and it looks like it could be modified to slip in Magisk and subsequently gain root access, but I feel a possible hurdle could be the stock recovery.