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Originally Posted by eLiNK
Your guess is as good as mine.
One can only speculate it was done to discriminate the DR800 from its bigger brother,
which was in my view, to put it mildly, a pretty unwise decision.
Without the zoom function, you cannot really use all kinds of pdfs.
Which means to me, it is more usefull for reading easily scalable formats like EPUB only.
But then again, you do not need 8" and hence no need to pay the markup in comparision to the 6" devices.
The iREX seems to forget it is not them who decide, what features the "consumer" version (using the description coined by Shaggy) should contain, but the consumers and the market.
As far as PDF handling abilities of the Pocketbook are concerned, they are way more advanced in comparison to DR800 and still they do not position their products as professional devices.
The build quality of the DR800 seems to be better, though.
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It really confirms my experience with many European companies, they are driven by their engineers. A few people sit around a table and decide what is good for the market, rather than listen to their prospective customers! A DR 800 with WiFi with a browser and PDF zoom capabilities would blow every other reader on the market right out of the water at the US price of $399. Instead Irex is shooting itself in the foot again.
And if they had any sense they would reduce the DR 1000 to $550 or so, who will buy it at almost $900 now?