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Have you seen the resolution? It's crappy.
I haven't. More than anything I'm supporting the idea of something like this. Little clamshell ereader that's not tied to a company? Hell yeah. Version 0.01 here might not be what I'm lusting after, but it's that much closer to Version 2.0.
I guess I'm too much of a "if you're gonna do something, then do it right the first time" kinda person. I've learned from (too much) experience that compromises on quality too often just wind up being wasted money.
Well the problem here is that there isn't a company that have money and so they can't do a very good product, when the project will gain money they can do a V2 with better specs and in general they will know better how build it, this prosuct is pre-launch and in general you have to see those as betas not a end product.
Also, e-ink displays cost more than my balls
Pine64 tried that with their PineNote, which hardware wise seems excellent. But it ended up being so expensive that sales were abmyssal and subsequently there was also little developer take up and general community excitement to make something cool out of it on the software side.
Yeah, that's pretty common. Final cost will always matter, but the product still has to be worth it. Many companies have a history of not making the best balance calls, however.
One thing I've learned never to scrimp too much on, however, is anything i directly interact with. Displays are especially important for the health of your eyes - especially with as much time as most people spend looking at them nowadays. As such, I can't really get behind this product.
I can dig that. Just like how I have no intention of building / buying this model, but the progress towards something I've been pining for is exciting.
If it's "open source hardware" wouldn't it be pretty easy to put it different screens?
Like it also only had a 2 GB SD card.. I'd guess most people would upgrade that