On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 09:59:46 +0100, David WE Roberts wrote:

On the keyboard version I tried to send a mail message via Gmail using
the 'experimental' browser but decided that life was far too short.

Agreed. But that's not its primary purpose. I do use it for teh
occasional Wikipedia lookup (from a word in abook) though.

I
put some .mp3 files on the system but it doesn't seem to find them so no
.mp3 player.

Works for me.

It does, however, do pretty well as an eReader.

Yes...use it all the time!

I have noted that there doesn't seem to be any software progression -
new or better software - so the 'experimental' bits look likely to stay
that way. I would have liked the option to have 'proper' .mp3 software
on there so you could use it to play selected music whilst reading - I
understand that it is supposed to just play whatever is there with no
playlist functionality. If it ever plays anything.

I have had two software upgrades over the past year or so, but they never
happened automatically - I just downloaded and installed them.
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