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Originally Posted by orcinus
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I agree with you
My whole point is with people who want from this device more than it was advertised. You don't require or even just ask a TV maker to upgrade it, so it will also be a heater for a room only because you know that for making a TV they use an element that might be used for heating as well. Just because we know that Reader has OS/CPU/RAM it doesn't mean we must require from Sony to upgrade the reader so it is capable to do what we want.
I don't know how eInk technology works so I can only guess. I think backlight might be incompatible with eInk screens. Text search and touch screen might be incompatible with today's eInk screens as well. Maybe it cannot show the required info as fast as these features are requiring for normal operation. It also might drain batteries too much and at the moment I think battery life is the second most prominent feature after eLink screen.
Who knows? Maybe I am wrong and it is easy pisy to implement all of these features without harming/degrading curent performance of the device.
Please, believe me, I wish I was wrong.
I would like it to have:
backlight - I really really need it.
text search - very nice feature.
built-in dictionarry! because I have a pan-like-scanner Eng-Rus dictionarry from Israel for normal books, which for obvious reasons I cannot use with the reader, so I have to buy electronic translator - which adds one more gadged in my pocket and costs 1/2 of the reader. But I cannot request/blame Sony.
I might humbly ask them to implement it, but I am not supposed to expect it only because other similar devices have it. When I was buying the reader it was clearly stated what it can/cannot do.