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Originally Posted by Slider1960
Probably slightly off topic, but if a product released on the same platform a few months ago has better functionality than one two years old I have to worry about motivation on the part of Bookeen.
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Actually, not unusual at all. If a new device doesn't offer more or the same in a better way, what would be the customer motivation to buy one? It's logical that a company tries to enhance a new product as much as possible to increase sales. It's also logical that Bookeen dedicates more time to their newly released and planned device (which bring in the money) and less to enhancing the already sold ones. They just shouldn't promise stuff they don't keep...
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Originally Posted by Slider1960
I did wonder about the possibility of firmware working across platforms but as the key sequence to initiate the firmware update is different points to a different bios. Strangely the last cybook update was about 6meg, the cool-er one is over 100meg.
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100 MB??? I know of a Linux distribution for a PC which fits into just 50 MB. What is there and is there even enough ROM in the device for all of that? I suspect in those 100 MB is probably some windows software also or it's some kind of development kit with additional stuff...