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geneven is offline geneven
2011-06-15 , 23:10
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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
Ooooh... THAT's one I'll be interested in seeing! DVD's! WHOO! I wonder if it can be made to boot OS's off of DVD's? I wonder if a USB hub will affect it in any negative way? So much stuff I'd want to do with it.



Oh God! Yeah! That was a one-day Woot deal! So it's as dead as a Maemo already?? Incredible... I was considering one of those. How hackable has it turned out? I remember reading that it was rooted and potentially pretty hackable. It so, it'd still be a worthwhile thing to buy dead manufacturer or not. I agree, though, I'd prefer a low-censorship site. I wonder if XDA would open up a forum for it if there were enough requests?



If I didn't already have a Dell Mini and a Galaxy Tab, I would have DEFINITELY gotten one by now. On the other hand, that 10" size is just a smidge too big for portability. I can't stress that enough--clearly I can't say it enough times, too. I love it otherwise. I would STILL get it if I knew that I could run a native Debian on it. Make it happen, Asus!
XDA has an area for Edge discussion, but people have decided to unify around Mobilread for now.

The one I bought was the 7 inch one. It is way way deader than Maemo I think they are selling the cobblestones now, or whatever you do at the end of shutting down.

The huge adavantage Maemo has is at least there are plenty of sophisticated developers left. There seem to be zero developers in the Entourage Edge crowd. There are some really good people who love their devices, and some pretty good hackers.

The state the device was left in is shocking. Would you believe that Entourage left its users without the ability to adequately use their SD cards? And many marketplaces are not usable, and Entourage has closed its. The only way you can use the Google marketplace, for example, is to have an android device that already works with Google marketplace, and transfer programs from it to your Entourage Edge.

So the answer to your question is yes, it's probably hackable, but there is no one who knows how to hack it like, say, a Color Nook.

The area staked out on mobilread is like an island, and talented people keep washing up on the beach, so there is still hope that a critical mass of talent will forrn and do some reall hacking, but that seems to be a distant prospect for now.
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