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Posted on January 28th, 2012 by Nathan
Sony has issued another firmware update for the Sony PRS-T1 that enhances performance and addresses an issue that some folks have when turning pages using the touchscreen and having it mysteriously activate the dictionary instead.
This update is the second in the past two months. In the past Sony was notorious for seldom releasing firmware updates for their ebook readers; it’s good to see the PRS-T1 getting more attention.
Filed under: Sony | Tags: firmware update, sony prs-t1 | 12 Comments »
Posted on January 28th, 2012 by Nathan
Earlier in the week, PocketBook’s RSS feed pinged about new firmware for the PocketBook Pro line of ebook readers. The actual news article is dated December 16th and the firmware is dated December 15th, so who knows why they waited so long to announce it officially.
The new firmware, version 2.1.2, is for the PocketBook Pro series and includes the touchscreen models and non-touchscreen models—the Pro 602, 603, 912, and 902. The new firmware adds some significant changes. Mostly good.
Filed under: PocketBook | Tags: firmware update, pocketbook 602 | 1 Comment »
Posted on January 17th, 2012 by Nathan
Amazon started rolling out a firmware update for the Kindle Fire earlier today. The new software version is 6.2.2.
Your Kindle Fire may have already updated itself automatically. To check, open settings then scroll down to “Device”. The software number is listed below “System Version”.
Filed under: Amazon Kindle | Tags: firmware update, kindle fire | No Comments »
Posted on January 16th, 2012 by Nathan
There’s a new firmware update available from Amazon for the Kindle Touch. I just installed it and haven’t noticed any improvements or changes whatsoever. Maybe page turns are a little faster—it’s hard to tell.
The only real difference I can find is that it kills the landscape mode trick I posted about the other day. Instead of showing buttons for rotating the screen, it just shows the code for the buttons instead. This probably means the update breaks other Kindle Touch hacks as well.
Filed under: Amazon Kindle | Tags: firmware update, kindle touch | 3 Comments »
Posted on December 24th, 2011 by Nathan
It’s been a busy week of updates for Kobo. They issued firmware updates for the Kobo Vox, Kobo Touch, and their desktop software too.
Kobo is one of those companies that continues to build on their products after release. This is at least the 6th update for the Kobo Touch, with each one adding some shiny new features, and about the third update for the Kobo Vox.
Filed under: Kobo | Tags: firmware update, kobo touch, kobo vox | 3 Comments »
Posted on December 20th, 2011 by Nathan
Barnes and Noble suck. They just issued an update for the Nook Tablet that effectively turns it from a full-blown Android tablet into a glorified color ereader with benefits.
The firmware update, version 1.4.1, closes the Nook Tablet off from installing Android apps from non-B&N sources. So now instead of having tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of apps available to load on the Nook, now users are stuck with only what B&N provides, about 2000 apps, some of which are 2-3 times what they sell for from other appstores.
Filed under: Nook | Tags: firmware update, nook tablet | 28 Comments »
Posted on December 12th, 2011 by Nathan
Barnes and Noble released the much-anticipated new firmware for the Nook Color today, version 1.4.1.
According to Barnes and Noble, the update adds over 100 enhancements. The most prominent change is the addition of Netflix for streaming movies and tv shows.
Filed under: Nook | Tags: firmware update, nook color | 4 Comments »
Posted on December 9th, 2011 by Nathan
Sony has issued a firmware update for the Sony PRS-T1 ebook reader. The update is supposed to fix some bugs like the freezing and random page flipping issues that some users are experiencing (not me, luckily).
In order to install the update, you need to connect your Sony Reader to your computer with the USB cable and then launch the Sony Desktop software. If it doesn’t prompt to install the new firmware automatically, hit the help button then “check for updates”.
Filed under: Sony | Tags: firmware update, sony prs-t1 | 16 Comments »
Posted on November 7th, 2011 by Nathan
Barnes and Noble officially slashed the price of the Nook Touch down to $99
today at the Nook Tablet announcement. They also have a firmware update for the Nook Touch to add some improvements.
First off, B&N deserves a ton of credit for dropping the price of the Nook Touch from $139 to $99 in light of Amazon’s new Kindle Touch and Kindle 4. A 28 percent price-cut is huge. And considering the Nook Touch doesn’t have ads, it is the best deal of the bunch.
Filed under: Nook, Sales and Discounts | Tags: firmware update, nook touch | 45 Comments »
Posted on October 14th, 2011 by Nathan
Amazon has started rolling out a new software update, version 3.3, for the Kindle Keyboard, formally known as the Kindle 3.
The update gives the Kindle Keyboard the ability to sync and archive personal documents and non-Kindle ebooks (here’s the post from yesterday explaining this new Kindle feature in case you missed it: Uploading Non-Kindle eBooks and Personal Documents for Archiving and Syncing on Kindles).
Filed under: Amazon Kindle | Tags: firmware update, kindle 3 | 6 Comments »
