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Originally Posted by SaraD
Hi Robert B,
Any information available about which units will have user replaceable batteries is much appreciated. Thank you for including it as it becomes available.  |
Dear SaraD:
Thank you. Yes, I am always trying to bring up the user replaceable battery that are on the Mentor and EZ Reader lines. To me this is personal. I have an iPod sitting at home that needs a battery and to me this is nothing but a nuisance and a waste of my time and money.
Frankly, when I first heard that there even WERE eBook Readers out there that were not replaceable I was shocked. WHY do it that way?? Just to make a few bucks? It means a tech team needs to be hired to do the work... and that is not cheap. So WHY are some of the others then doing this to themselves and the end users?
By the way, Dale brought up a good point about 4 grey scale on the new Mentor Lite. I am with you, Dale, and only can think that our factory (Netronix) had contracts with OEM in Asia and Europe that wanted them this way. It is great that the Mentor Lite has already sold 500,000 units in Asia and Europe before we roll it out. That means it is a solid and depandable performer with no apparent glitches. BUT... 4 levels of grey scale would have been better at 8 levels.
We do know that they already are working on the 9.7 inch and that will have 16 levels! We know the new Mentor Intrigue will have 8 levels. I think they were planning this as a good, honest, base machine. To many, many people 4 levels is just fine as they only want good and crisp resolution to read books.
Robert B