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Originally Posted by nonanon
@Houndx: re battery life
I noticed something similar at first. Now when I don't need wifi I keep it turned off, that drains my iPod Touch quickly too so not exclusive to A81. When I'm putting it down for more than half an hour or so I power down instead of using standby. The battery life now seems acceptable.
There are some valid complaints about Witstech supporting this with firmware and OS upgrades as promised. It works fine as a reader, not my first choice to slide into a pocket but the screen is great and it works with a wide variety of file types. It is my first choice for watching video away from home. I have a little 18,000 mAh battery pack that would work great with this if the A81 didn't have such an oddball power input plug. Too long and narrow and I've been unable to find a tip that works.
I don't regret buying this as a stopgap until I've tried an iPad or the Adam comes out but they did promise us Android a long time ago. Both of the other devices will be even harder to fit into a pocket than the A81. What I'd really like is an Adam or iPad that's got a widescreen 5 or 6" screen. That would still fit into some shirt pockets yet still be much better than the 3.5" iPod Touch screen. I use it 90% of the time as just an ereader and it works fine for that. It's much bulkier and has less battery life than an e-ink device but has a very wide selection of backlight levels, colors for fonts and background, many fonts and far more font sizes than any eink device.
It's hard for any device to rival the App Store but if they can't even provide a Linux port or limited Android, this device won't make it. Too many incremental firmware updates that don't do anything much instead of focusing on getting the promised OS upgrade!
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my point exactly.......The main reason why I bought A81 is so promissed Android OS, because current Win CE is a CRAP, rare applications works on it...!! Only, but only reason why I still have A81 device, are movies.
As you've noticed, Witstech's has crappy international support and page is useless. Very dissapointed.
But I appreciate efford from Kathy, she is very kind.