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Originally Posted by Shaggy
Would you rather they had pushed the DR800 back even further just to get a dictionary with the first firmware? I'm sure you would have complained about that even more. Then again, I'm sure no matter what they do, you're going to find a way to complain about it.
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Of course, for $400 I would have
rathered that they included it fully functioning from the get-go. It seems Sony and Apple have basic functionalities like dictionaries figured out from the start. I guess that's too hard for your beloved company to manage after months of development? Comes from spending too many lunch breaks at the local "coffee house" in Amsterdam, I suppose. I mean, this is a company that designs a book reader that cannot go directly to a specific page in a book!
You're right, I probably would have bitched about it because I'm sure they would have managed to completely dick it up somehow. The dictionary function probably would have caused a 50% battery drain in an hour or something like that, and a couple of years later they probably would have gotten around to fixing it in the iRex way: put out a firmware update that deletes the capability entirely!
I'm sure you would have managed to find a way to turn that into a positive, though (wow, that dictionary is SOOO powerful it must be really CPU intensive, isn't that great! But really, they've promised to fix it, and I'm sure that firmware update is right around the corner!).
Anyway, back to the Wikipedia-on-reader concept. That right there is so interesting it might actually make the reader worth the money to buy. I don't think a Wiki article would be very readable on my 505, but the 8" screen would be quite nice.