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skyline · 12-30-2009, 04:37 AM

Dear Dvalin21 I'm really sorry to tell you that your opinion doesn't make much sense. Maplin's device is a MID and so are the ones you propose so what you 're really telling our friend @chough@ is "don't buy this MID, buy these ones instead". Why? If he is in the UK why shouldn't he try Maplin's MID? Delivery is free and there probably is a 28 day money back policy so even if he doesn't like the product he can get his money back. I mean the price is excellent, I would go for it if I didn't have the GPS. And since I mentioned it, I bought a 4.8 inch GPS from dealextreme (Chinese retailer) for 84 dollars +free delivery. Arm processor, windows CE 5.0, well.. average specs. I installed miopocket and various applications for e-book reading like mobipocket, μbook etc and although at first I didn't like it after some skin and color adjustments it is considerably better. It is not as good as a dedicated reader but it does the job and I'm very happy with it at the moment because now I can postpone the purchase of a proper 7 inch MID for whenever something really good comes out.

12-30-2009, 04:37 AM	#3
skyline Enthusiast Posts: 35 Karma: 504 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: none	Dear Dvalin21 I'm really sorry to tell you that your opinion doesn't make much sense. Maplin's device is a MID and so are the ones you propose so what you 're really telling our friend @chough@ is "don't buy this MID, buy these ones instead". Why? If he is in the UK why shouldn't he try Maplin's MID? Delivery is free and there probably is a 28 day money back policy so even if he doesn't like the product he can get his money back. I mean the price is excellent, I would go for it if I didn't have the GPS. And since I mentioned it, I bought a 4.8 inch GPS from dealextreme (Chinese retailer) for 84 dollars +free delivery. Arm processor, windows CE 5.0, well.. average specs. I installed miopocket and various applications for e-book reading like mobipocket, μbook etc and although at first I didn't like it after some skin and color adjustments it is considerably better. It is not as good as a dedicated reader but it does the job and I'm very happy with it at the moment because now I can postpone the purchase of a proper 7 inch MID for whenever something really good comes out. Last edited by skyline; 12-30-2009 at 12:48 PM.