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Originally Posted by Robertb
Dear All:
Astak is just curious. I am not at all against anyone doing what they want to do.
We are just a bit curious about this LBook firmware desire?
Can you all nicely state WHY you prefer the LBook firmware upgrade over the Astak version? We are curious because it should be identical. The speed is set by the hardware and not the software... so it is difficult to understand speed is the deciding factor. Is it the ease of the downloading or something else? What, to you, makes it a better route to take??
I am being asked by the PM on this. Be blunt. If we just seem to do a poorer job then state that. We are just trying to improve!  |
Dear Robert,
First of all thanks for this warm approach; because as far as I can see there are many home made firmwares for all kinds of electronic devices around and yet I never saw a manufacturer directly asking the customers "Hey, why do you install the custom firmwares?"
For information, I generally update my media player at home and pocket pc with custom firmwares mainly because the standart firmwares (correctly) targets the average customer, but advanced customers like me and many people around here just don't want to accept the given firmware and improve the device as far as possible. It's a habit first of all. I think that people like me (power users we can say) like to customise electronical devices a lot.
For our specific case; many people here believe that EZReader is a great e-reader; however these devices are valuable as whole along with software and hardware. Many users here for example keep requesting basic features like changing font types and sizes easily on the fly; but we could not get this option for months now. In addition to this, the engineers in the factory are not doing a good job, as many of us believe. On the other hand, many of us suddenly saw that CoolReader is what we are looking for; it has so many options to customize the device and this is the main reason I believe. Second reason is that, it's been updated regularly and getting better; I think it will be far better in next weeks.
These are my two cents over the subject. I am sure we would not leave our own firmware if we could get the same benefits from this new one.
Regards.