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Originally Posted by mtravellerh
Let's hope that Interead will invest some time and money in a good firmware this time around.
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A difference between Interread and PocketBook (or Bookeen) is that they seem to be using the standard Netronix firmware. Jinke has demonstrated that this approach can work well world-wide (Hanlin V3 and V5), and Netronix adds to the equation customized cases for standard electronics. As you suggest, the trick is to put enough support behind the firmware no matter who develops and maintains it.
Since Netronix hardware goes with both vendor-specific and generic firmware, it can be hard to keep track and a vendor can always switch. To take another example, the BeBook 1 and Mini are Hanlins, but I was never sure where the BeBook 2 was coming from.