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Originally Posted by kleykenb
Oh but what's so different between a v1 gen3 and a v3 gen3 that makes the former 'incompatible' ?
The speed of the processor ? I think not.
No, this isn't about legacy hardware lacking features, nor is it about wanting to offer customers the best user experience ...
It is nothing more than a good example of how proprietary software (we can't change the software and we can't read the source code) is being used to draw the 'old' customers (v1 gen3) back to the Shops to replace his hardware. Hardware that is in essence feature-rich and capable enough yet incapable of getting the firmware to enable those features and capabilities. Business as ussual, I guess. But "a good thing" ? "Yes!". Just not necessaryly for the customer though.
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EB100 is:
- Samsung S3C2410 @ 200Mhz
- 16MB of SDRAM
- 4MB or NOR Flash
- 64 or 512 MB of "SD Card" (nor actually real Nand flash, it's plugged on the s3c2410 USB through a realtek controller)
- Apollo Display Controller
- Linux 2.4.18
EB600 is:
- Samsung S3C2440 @ 400MHz
- 32 or 64MB of SDRAM (Twice of Fourth the size of the EB100)
- 512 or 1GB of Nand Flash (the 2440 can direct boot from Flash)
- PVI6001A Display Controller (new name and brand of the Apollo Chip)
or
- Epson S1D13521 Display Controller (known too as Broadsheet)
- Linux 2.6.18
And both device are clearly not the same beast despite the form factor, or the fact that the application is visually the same. The firmware are completely different, and from what I saw when some try to get info from bookeen by calling lawyers to get the source code out, they don't have a firm control on the Bootloader/Linux Kernel on the EB100 where it seems they are more likely to do what they want on the EB600 (they have plenty of feature that Netronix or PocketBook lacks)
So sorry, but I don't thinks that Bookeen is some sort of company that prevent feature on older device just to be in accordance with some obscure marketing stragtegy..