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Mambo · 11-02-2006, 10:09 AM

Jaed, I think both of us have a point.

Maybe my 4GB Kingston CF card is dodgy. But there are things that are not rational:
1. If I put it into a card reader and attach to a PC it ALWAYS works.
2. It does not matter how many times I take out and put back into the iLiad, it will be not recognized, once it is not recognized on startup. It will be only recognized when I restart the iLiad. This tells me that something is not right with the iLiad.
3. When I restart the iLiad, the card ALWAYS works. Never happened so far to me, that it would be necessary to restart the iLiad 2 times to make the card working again.

On the other hand what I am talking about is I still believe that they can improve the power management. I still don't want to send back the product and a pseudo-suspend mode would suit me. though, I deeply share CommanderRORs feelings.

My point is, that they just seem to have different attitude to the whole thing. It does look like that this issue is not so important for them. They have intentionally adopted an approach of small improvements. This is they strategy. This is an intentional and not an emerging strategy. At this pace it can take forever the development. All I want to see is concentrated efforts for a solution.

I said I am ready for beta testing. But I was not contacted by them. They seem like have enough beta testers by now. So what keeps them back from delivering a test version? Remember they did not say they can not do it, they don't have enough programmers, they said "thorough testing" what takes long. This is what sounds strange to me.

By the way there is no such feature that could not be turned off, so if the device get instable, it is possible to switch back to "safe mode". And what they say, that it is difficult to add a new option to the settings application. Ridiculous.

11-02-2006, 10:09 AM	#41
Mambo Gadget fan Posts: 147 Karma: 3968 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: London Device: RM Tablet PC, iLiad, PRS 505, iPod Touch	Jaed, I think both of us have a point. Maybe my 4GB Kingston CF card is dodgy. But there are things that are not rational: 1. If I put it into a card reader and attach to a PC it ALWAYS works. 2. It does not matter how many times I take out and put back into the iLiad, it will be not recognized, once it is not recognized on startup. It will be only recognized when I restart the iLiad. This tells me that something is not right with the iLiad. 3. When I restart the iLiad, the card ALWAYS works. Never happened so far to me, that it would be necessary to restart the iLiad 2 times to make the card working again. On the other hand what I am talking about is I still believe that they can improve the power management. I still don't want to send back the product and a pseudo-suspend mode would suit me. though, I deeply share CommanderRORs feelings. My point is, that they just seem to have different attitude to the whole thing. It does look like that this issue is not so important for them. They have intentionally adopted an approach of small improvements. This is they strategy. This is an intentional and not an emerging strategy. At this pace it can take forever the development. All I want to see is concentrated efforts for a solution. I said I am ready for beta testing. But I was not contacted by them. They seem like have enough beta testers by now. So what keeps them back from delivering a test version? Remember they did not say they can not do it, they don't have enough programmers, they said "thorough testing" what takes long. This is what sounds strange to me. By the way there is no such feature that could not be turned off, so if the device get instable, it is possible to switch back to "safe mode". And what they say, that it is difficult to add a new option to the settings application. Ridiculous.