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nonanon · 03-06-2010, 11:48 PM

@jswinden: Another Piece of Chinese S***
That's overstating the situation a great deal and unless you have an A81 I'm not sure how you formed an opinion. Every piece of tech needs tweaking after release and every buyer wants it to do more than it can initially do. With wince the A81 fills a lot of needs from e-reader, excellent video and audio player, some gaming and web browsing. Without buttons the gaming is limited and it's far from ideal as a browser. Hopefully they'll add Firefox functionality at some point. For the price it's hard to beat though, a very nice 7" screen for watching videos, adequate battery life, lots of apps for reading books.

For me the problem is the continual flow of firmware updates. I'd much rather they concentrated on adding either Android or Linux and stopped the minor tweaks. With wince there is only so much even an optimized firmware could do using that OS. All that said, I'm looking forward to getting my hands on the Notion Ink Adam later this year and also hoping Apple decides to roll out an iPad with a 5-7" screen.

My opinion may be biased as I've had Archos devices so I've had to learn to be patient about things like this.

03-06-2010, 11:48 PM	#61
nonanon Enthusiast Posts: 45 Karma: 21900 Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Utah Device: iPad, Nook Simple Touch	@jswinden: Another Piece of Chinese S*** That's overstating the situation a great deal and unless you have an A81 I'm not sure how you formed an opinion. Every piece of tech needs tweaking after release and every buyer wants it to do more than it can initially do. With wince the A81 fills a lot of needs from e-reader, excellent video and audio player, some gaming and web browsing. Without buttons the gaming is limited and it's far from ideal as a browser. Hopefully they'll add Firefox functionality at some point. For the price it's hard to beat though, a very nice 7" screen for watching videos, adequate battery life, lots of apps for reading books. For me the problem is the continual flow of firmware updates. I'd much rather they concentrated on adding either Android or Linux and stopped the minor tweaks. With wince there is only so much even an optimized firmware could do using that OS. All that said, I'm looking forward to getting my hands on the Notion Ink Adam later this year and also hoping Apple decides to roll out an iPad with a 5-7" screen. My opinion may be biased as I've had Archos devices so I've had to learn to be patient about things like this. Last edited by nonanon; 03-09-2010 at 08:57 PM.