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Old 08-06-2015, 08:18 AM   #1
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e Ink and Netronix form a New e-Reader Company
Posting this because it states Netronix was responsible for designing and manufacturing every single Kobo e-reader over the last five years.

http://goodereader.com/blog/e-paper/...reader-company
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Old 08-06-2015, 08:27 AM   #2
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Netronix also manufactured devices sold as PocketBook 301 and PocketBook 360°.
They manufactured one of the first bookeen devices and a few others, like Cooler. The only difference was firmware.
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Old 08-06-2015, 09:13 AM   #3
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Netronix also manufactured devices sold as PocketBook 301 and PocketBook 360°.
They manufactured one of the first bookeen devices and a few others, like Cooler. The only difference was firmware.
Yep. The original Cybook Gen3 was a Netronix (a 300, I think. The 'Gold Edition' was a 600). Much like oodles of Jinke/Hanlin V3s were sold by OEMs under different names, like the BeBook One of fond memory (mine, at least )
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Old 08-06-2015, 07:53 PM   #5
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Hm, does this mean then that Kobo firmware can be loaded to a differently branded, but otherwise identical device?
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Old 08-07-2015, 04:08 AM   #6
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Ha, now if they’d join with a quality software company to which Kobo can outsource development of their reader firmware and improve their cloud capabilities...
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Old 08-07-2015, 08:55 AM   #7
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Hm, does this mean then that Kobo firmware can be loaded to a differently branded, but otherwise identical device?
In hardware, many of the readers are related even across brands... they all have arm architecture, eink driver, ... so I'd not be too surprised if someone managed to make alien firmware work.

However there is a lot of custom code on the Kobo, like the way it detects which make / model / resolution it should be using [based on the device's serial number stored on the SD card], that's not easily portable.
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Well, let's see if this can make me buy my future e-ink devices in Taiwan: my H2O is made, but not available in Taiwan.
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In hardware, many of the readers are related even across brands... they all have arm architecture, eink driver, ... so I'd not be too surprised if someone managed to make alien firmware work.
Id take and Aura H2O with the latest Kindle firmware...
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