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Originally Posted by cellaris
Among Android e-readers, I generally prefer Onyx Boox devices, which have more polished firmware, but I don't dislike Bigme. Perhaps Meebook is the one I'm least interested in at the moment. I can't speak first-hand about the other Chinese brands, but they don't have good distribution channels.
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Onyx Boox is the best supported. Still a small Chinese company.
Meebook used to be Boyue and Boyue went bust.
Bigme is tiny and over optimistic. Products that didn't work or never released.
A bunch of even smaller worse Chinese Android products.
They use Android either to try selling the idea they are tablets, or to differentiate, or to reduce software development effort.
Pocketbook is a Ukrainian founded company in Switzerland. Maybe some have Android.
Kobo is owned by huge Japanese company, Rakuten, and based in Canada and via Rakuten own the HW / reader part of German Tolino, which previously ran Android.
We all know who Amazon is & what a Kindle is. Amazon do use Android for tablets and TVs, but not ereaders.
Barnes&Noble have the Nook. Limited market.
All the best ereaders are Linux, not Android. Yes, Sony did 3 Android models and quit just after the T3 came out. It's not clear why as the T1 was inferior to PRS-x50 series. T2 was OK, but no easy way to add apps even though it was Android.
For Phones and Tablets, Android is the only viable alternative to iOS. It's like a dog taught to walk on two legs for eink.