[jackau]

With expension of Taiwan display panel makers such as PVI aquiring E-ink, the island's IT ODMs are looking to Ebooks as their next money making pot after profits on LCD displays hit rock bottom...

Toshiba, Asus and the lot (PC powerplayers) are now preparing for a foot hold in this market, then there are the original ODMs such as Netronix. So in the future, just like notebooks with their ODMs, it may be possible to aline which is which with ODMs.

For the moment, Netronix seems to held the biggest number of known ODM contracts with minor players on the market. Cool-er / E-slick / Boaders Elonex, Cybook appear to be share the identical core with different casing.

Therefore I suggest starting a new group for all ebooks known to be made by the SAME ODM!

the current problem for Netronix was first its capacity to produce enough for all its customers (look what happen with the back orders for a number of their customers!!).

The next problem is its learner software package the NTX reader.

netronix's EB-6xx platform has the promise with enough raw power on paper to process functions mobile phones with lower hardware can do, namely: zooming .jpg and .pdf. Trouble was, its software can barely use the hardware power.

I assume NTX reader is supported by NeTroniX themselves. The retail brands relies upon it, hence it will be improve upon as their next generation hardware is already in the pipeline.

So we should press the retail brands to press Netronix to release generic upgrades to the NTX reader so our investiments won't go outdated too soon.


Can anyone with Netronix hardware varify their version of NTX reader? Compare improvements?


thank you