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Well, I'm afraid a full list of features we user want would go on for ever, but I think most of us would like to see one big thing:
BATTERY LIFE!!!
and that is something we won't get, not if the only change iRex is willing to make is a larger battery...
Things like more viewers, speed improvements for booting and UI, Wacom calibration, presure sensitivity, webbrowsing are minor things that can be fixed by communtiy developers if neccessary (unbricking utility would help though).
DRM support is another one of the biggies, but I guess until the Iliad version X offers some kind of powersaving that can make it comfortable to use (or has a booting time <5 seconds) most other improvements seem like an excersize in futility to me.
I remember quite clearly that I incredulously inquired about the strange "low battery life of 21 hours" for the Iliad which was clearly inferior to the 7000-8000 pageturns other eink devices announced at that time promised. The reply I got was that the Iliad would manage 10000 pageturns and that the 21 hours included some WiFi useage for getting content every day. Unfortunately I don't have the mails with the original text anymore...
As it stands right now, I would live going back to the Iliad, now with dicitonary support and FBReader, but as soon as I remember the hassle of having to boot and shutodwn the device for every reading session I decide to stay with my STAReBOOk that has ugly fonts and crappy formatting but at least let's me use it in a paperlike way.
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