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Nice to see a new ereader coming out although I must say that I share some of the concerns others have already voiced here...
It appears that the STAReBOOK design was used but slightly altered to create this device. The side buttons are the same, but the main control unit and the strip at the bottom front were redesigned.
I'd love to try flashing the Cybook firmware onto my STAReBOOK, but I'm not sure whether the drivers for the Vizplex display would be included and might kill my STAReBOOK (although I might risk it anyway since the guys at stareread have still not finished the new Firmware and I've long ago grown tired of broken formatting...and have returned to the Iliad with it's mobipocket support).
Concerning suspend mode...if they went with the same core OS as the STAReBOOK, then it'll be only low-power mode and will run out of juice after about a week of lying around doing nothing (and about the same with regular reading). The stareread folks never gave me a clear answer on this matter and since I haven't been able to reach them for quite some time now I've given up on the matter.
I'm looking forward to hearing what the Cybook behaves like and if you have a firmware flasher and firmware file somewhere, then I'll certainly consider giving the cross-flashing to the STAReBOOK a try. Since the device is not really in use anymore and I never paid anything for it I might risk giving it a try.
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