MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Advice: repair iLiad's screen, or DR800SW?

pauli · 03-18-2010, 02:51 AM

If you have a big collection of DRM protected Mobipockets, you might want to hold on to your iLiad. Also if you require wifi and to have your notes to be exportable from your device. But in that case a second hand iLiad would be less expensive than the screen repair.

For everything else, the DR800 is better. ePub is more readily available then mobipockets. The device is much faster in flipping pages, it starts faster (from suspended mode) and the battery life is in a different order of magnitude. With the upcoming firmware update, almost every shortcoming reported by reviewers is solved.

You might have to consider ordering your device before you go back to the US, because at the moment you can only order it on-line (at BestBuy or Cartoys). Just to make sure you have your DR800 when you return to Germany...

03-18-2010, 02:51 AM	#3
pauli Groupie Posts: 185 Karma: 119824 Join Date: Feb 2008 Device: iLiad, DR1000S, HTC Hero, DR800SG	If you have a big collection of DRM protected Mobipockets, you might want to hold on to your iLiad. Also if you require wifi and to have your notes to be exportable from your device. But in that case a second hand iLiad would be less expensive than the screen repair. For everything else, the DR800 is better. ePub is more readily available then mobipockets. The device is much faster in flipping pages, it starts faster (from suspended mode) and the battery life is in a different order of magnitude. With the upcoming firmware update, almost every shortcoming reported by reviewers is solved. You might have to consider ordering your device before you go back to the US, because at the moment you can only order it on-line (at BestBuy or Cartoys). Just to make sure you have your DR800 when you return to Germany...