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What exactly is the surprise here????? Of course they will release a new version.
As most of the current owners pointed out there are a lot of issues and shortcomings.
It is obvious that they will fix some of them and release a new version ASAP. WiFi is just a simple obvious incremental imrpovement to the hardware. The version 1.0 of anything always has a very short lifespan. What is the problem here?????
WiFi is one of those things that you ignore and think little about it until you try it and realize how useful it really is. Of course, at home using wires once in a blue moon is bot a big deal. Even so it is tiring. Especially dealing with the cables that never stay in place, and cats play with and pull out, and kids pull out, and .... Of course, you can never find the right cable when you need it.
Also when you are on the move, like someone mentioned a coffee shop, you probably don't have a cable handy and/or won't bother. Now for books it is clear that WiFi is not important. You donwload them once per month at most. Fine.
Reader is for reading any content, not just books. I could read newspapers, magazines, etc. Say you visit the bookstore and wish to purchase a couple of magazines. We do it all the time, right. Turns out the store has a 20% discount for eMagazines. You just bring your reader to the cash register, punch in magazine codes and use WiFi to download to the reader, pay and go. Common sense. After all we simply throw away paper after reading them, so why bother with paper??? The key missing feature for this use case is WiFi.
Sure color is also necessary, but that will come too. For daily black and white news papers the current reader is fine. Just needs WiFi.
Regarding battery drain, it can be fixed by having a simple button to enable/disable WiFi. I have it on my laptop. Simple.
So yes, WiFi is super-cool feature to add. Still, I hope and assume that most of the effort will go into fixing the issues with the current version and WiFi is just a bonus.
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