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Originally Posted by Kent Walters
I can’t imagine that many people will buy based on an implied IOU.
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No argument there, I've said the same thing on multiple occasions.
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The fact that writing (that being iRex’s strength) is not included on the DR800 suggests to me that they are having problems implementing it. That leads me to believe that the two platforms are not as similar as DR1000 owners might hope
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The piece of the puzzle I think you're missing is that they are in the midst of completely changing the viewer applications for both the DR800 and DR1000. The current open source PDF viewer is being replaced with an Adobe based viewer, and the current Mobipocket viewer is being dropped.
The DR800 is being released with the new viewers, the DR1000 will receive them in the future as a firmware update.
That is the most likely reason that writing isn't ready yet. They have probably been working on getting the "read only" mode of those new viewers completed and haven't had enough time to port the writing capability into them. That's probably also why they are not releasing the updates for the DR1000 yet.
I'm guessing that around the same time the DR1000 get it's firmware upgrade with the Adobe applications, the DR800 will receive the writing ability (the two are probably directly related).