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Originally Posted by Shaggy
Again, of course that occurred to them. They are already supporting it on their upper level device. The question is whether there is enough demand for it on the lower level device as well. It's not a technical problem, or a question of them able to form requirements. I'm sure they understand those issues a lot better than you want to give them credit for.
It's a business decision on the justification regarding what features they support on the lower level device and how many sales that will take away from the upper level one.
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I am sorry, but I can't buy this. To state that a device that is several years old, has poor battery life and features that are pretty much out of date in this rapidly moving area just doesn't make sense. If they want the DR1000 to be "upper level" they better come out with a DR2000 pretty soon, or the competition will leave them in the dust. We have color readers, other new screen technologies, more features etc. being offered that will make the DR1000 an antique very soon.
I bought the 800 and am very happy with it, however, it definately needs better navigation features in epub, dictionary support and better pdf features to even compete with "low end" products available or in the pipeline. If Irex is holding off on these features because they only want them in their premium device, I don't hold out much hope for the future of Irex.