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Originally Posted by repods
a question for you mgmueller ..
where the device is made ?
I'mean: made in..
maybe china ?
oh and btw where the kindle DX is made ?
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As far as I know (but I'm really not absolutely sure about it), iRex does manufacture their readers themselves. So it's from the Netherlands. Both Kindles, as far as I know, are produced in China.
Personally, I've got some reservations against Chinese companies. But that's only, if they develop, design and produce on their own. Hanlin/BeBook to me is a typical example for that: There are some brillant features in their OS. But their design is disastrous in comparison to, let's say, Sony 900.
But if those Chinese companies only are doing the manufacturing, I don't have any problems at all. Apple, for example, doesn't have any production of their own. They do the R&D and the design and that's it. All the mobile phones (most of them in Europe have been my customers, so I know their processes very well) are produced in China as well, only the assembly is done locally.
Concerning iRex 800 and Kindle DX, the units you mention, I don't see any difference in build quality, if that's what your question implies.