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Originally Posted by Jim Lester
Note however this is not a complete panacea, since Adobe needs to get our act together as well. For devices with no keyboard support, such as the Astak devices (Robert, please correct me if I'm wrong about the keyboard support), Adobe Digital Editions needs to be updated to not only support the new password DRM but also to send the key information to the device while tethered to the desktop computer, where you have entered in the password. Until this is done it's fairly academic if the device supports the Password flavor of DRM, since there is no way to enter the password on those device.
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The Foxit eSlick has a virtual keyboard to enter the password for eReader DRM, and it has been reported to be a hassle (but not impossible, since you only need to use it once in a blue moon). Thankfully, there is already a virtual keyboard on the Hanlins for search.
My point about the 2009 release of Adobe Reader Mobile SDK 9.1 was that it isn't available yet, so it isn't surprising that Robertb did not know about it. Licensees are no doubt going to want to judge the effort involved before committing to back porting the new version to existing devices.