Comment by tmottabr

6 hours ago

There are rumors they will release a V2 Pro version with touch and backlight in the second half of this year.

They also have already announced the S4 that is basically the same device, a bit ticker with touch and backlight and running android.

It has perfectly usable buttons. Adding touch feels like straying from the core proposition to have a minimal reader.

  • Yeah I really like not having a touchscreen that I have to worry about bumping while I'm reading, a backlight is the only addition I would enjoy to the current x4

    • I love the buttons, would loath a touchscreen on this size format. Just add a backlight!

  • if its still as open, I'm pretty sure the touchscreen can be worked out to work well.

    but I really agree with you, I'd love to have a frontlight on it. That's literally all I'd wanted over the current device. No touchscreen necessary.

    but between touchscreen + frontlight and neither, perhaps I'd be willing to have a touchscreen so long as the software is good (which something like crosspoint I'm sure would nail)