XTEink X4

[jago25_98]

Originally Posted by readern4vi

This is such dumb decision, I don't know why they did it. They're even claiming that the broken screens that people are posting about are due to the custom firmware...

The CFW is why the device is even popular to begin with!

They want to charge a higher price for international users and a lower price for the mainland market,
so they're saying that the more expensive international version won't be blocked.

However, as we saw with various phone manufacturers and also vendor locking in USA market (for example with the Samsung variants), this creates a confusing situation where a phone might be labelled as X, but in reality there are lots of subvariants. So rom enthusiasts kept fighting this, but also moved away from those in their purchases.
So this will be the same thing again where the Xteink X4/X3 brandnames are tarnished with that confusion.

Xteink aren't exactly Nirav Patel. They're just a random small Chinese company that got VC money and squandered its community core.

My suggestion is to refocus on the Delink project. It's basically the same hardware: ESP32 tied to same size screen, just a bit more bulky at the moment due to being DIY. You can even run Crosspoint on it.

[Steven Karp]

Got mine a few days ago. Immediately installed crosspoint 1.3, spent literally a whole day loading my library (nearly 7,000 books), upgraded to crosspoint 1.4 which was released while I was loading books, and have been enjoying playing around with it since.

Very obviously not going to replace my Kobo as my primary reader. If nothing else, the lack of a backlight makes reading in bed awkward. And the frequent page turns mean it's not great for reading while eating lunch (or anything else that needs two hands).

But, damn, it was nice to have something in my pocket I could pull out and read while I was sitting around at the doctor's office.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Steven Karp

But, damn, it was nice to have something in my pocket I could pull out and read while I was sitting around at the doctor's office.

That's when I use my phone...synced to my boox via ReadEra Pro...