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Originally Posted by geneven View Post
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.
That should be criminal. If a car maker or a home appliance maker did that, there would be lawsuits abound over lack of supporting a product, repairs and other issues that they stuck a customer with.
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