[positively4th]

I got mine setup. Beautiful little device. The instructions on that GitHub helped immensely but were not -exact- for what you need to do on this device, but it was not difficult to follow and adjust based on what I was seeing. I actually thought I did it wrong as I had selected English, restarted the device, and it came back up and 99% of everything was still Chinese. But, after doing that setup, English works in apps and is visible in very select parts of the interface.

A few observations:
- before changing the language to English, if I used the web browser to visit google and search, it routed me to Baidu. The built in browser seems to route you to Chinese language versions of sites by default or something… not sure. I need to install a different browser. Opera from the amazon App Store seems to work well enough
- this is a really beautiful little device
- the default keyboard is really annoying and frustrating to use. I don’t know what the buttons mean but there’s one to the right of the period and left of search/go that seems to make the keyboard function normally. This device would likely be much improved with a different keyboard installed. Not to mention the included keyboard has some crazy creepy pop up during setup that tells you it needs internet access at all times.
- the light is about as good as I’ve seen on any eink reader. Maybe just a smidge brighter at the bottom, but nice and uniform throughout and not a bother at all.
- it’s very light, my phone with a case is 9.1 ounces, this is 4.1 ounces. It throws me off a little to have a phone shaped device that doesn’t feel like a phone because it’s so light. Not a bad thing. I think the light weight and plastic shell gives me the impression that this thing can’t withstand a beating, but I am not sure
- the plastic shell doesn’t feel luxurious but looks nice, especially like the back of it being plain and not having all the regulatory junk printed on it like many devices from USA
- the screen is glossy. It doesn’t bother me. It comes with a matte screen protector that I failed to install properly and threw out. I wish I had another to try but such is life.
- google translate app on a nearby smartphone is your friend. Switch to the camera mode and point it at the screen for this so you can see what is what while you’re getting it setup
- double tapping the moaan logo below the screen seems to function as “back”. Triple tap seems to take you back home. I haven’t quite figured that all out but I think that’s how it works.
- I wish it came with a case, or that there was one designed for it. If one exists I’d love to be pointed towards it but I haven’t found it. I’ll probably just get a generic neoprene sleeve for a phone and make it work but would be nice to have one like a book cover.
- sticking with the default launcher/interface (may change it later) for the moment, it doesn’t let you remove all the included apps. There are 7 you can’t get rid of and I don’t see a way to reorganize them. That leaves space on the main screen for 5 others if you remove the rest, and you can have multiple pages of apps if you choose.

Overall a couple quirks to work through to get it setup, but very happy with it overall. I would not recommend this to someone who is not tech savvy but the difficulty in setting it up is not bad. After the setup and installing a couple apps, ditching the creepy keyboard and built in apps for browser etc, this is the pocket kindle I’ve always wanted.