The CEO of this brand once portrayed himself as a first-time entrepreneur, launching a small batch of products at extremely low prices, then raising prices and quickly rolling out new models. But earlier this year, one of his competitors publicly presented a series of allegations that were subsequently substantiated, including that he had actually been involved in multiple previous ventures with a highly questionable track record, and that some of the products' key specifications had been seriously misrepresented. The company later apologized for the inaccurate specifications, claiming that the misinformation was unintentional. However, it offered neither a recall nor any meaningful compensation to affected customers. Soon afterward, the brand launched yet another new product, only for customers to discover after receiving it that the promotional images were also misleading. At the end of the day, this brand's business model seems to be little more than assembling cheap off-the-shelf components and using aggressive social media marketing to convince people that they need its products.

Care to link these allegations and substantiated proof/evidence? Not that I don't believe you, but would be nice to read the original source of this, even if it happens to be in another language than English.

You need to search for "阅星瞳" on RedNote, which is their official Chinese name, and look at the official statement they posted on April 25 this year. In that statement, they had listed the device's RAM as 128 MB, while the actual usable RAM was only around 400 KB.

You can also find plenty of other discussions about the CEO himself and the company's products by searching on RedNote. In fact, RedNote users make up a major part of the brand's customer base in China.

Is it fair to say that your previous comment was based mostly on various individual comments made by individuals on RedNote, rather than some published article from journalists, or investigation, or similar?

You're questioning whether a native Chinese speaker somehow misunderstood a discussion written in Chinese on a Chinese social media platform?

After a competitor accused them of falsifying product specifications, the company publicly responded by claiming that it was merely a typo and stated that they would not provide compensation. Under Chinese law, however, this kind of false representation can require a refund plus compensation amounting to ten times the purchase price.

Their CEO had previously served as a founder or senior executive at several well-known Chinese companies, some of which later failed or suffered from major strategic mistakes. Yet during the early development of XTEINK, the founder concealed much of that problematic history. You can find reporting on it here: https://www.cqnews.net/1/detail/1346418331771338752/web/cont...

You say, "Not that I don't believe you," but at the same time you're treating what I said as though I simply made it up based on a few random comments I happened to see on social media.

Come on. The problem here is you, not me. If you are not even capable of searching Chinese websites yourself, then you are in no position to question me about what is being discussed in Chinese.

> You're questioning whether a native Chinese speaker somehow misunderstood a discussion written in Chinese on a Chinese social media platform?

No, I was merely trying to clarify what the source(s) were.

> Yet during the early development of XTEINK, the founder concealed much of that problematic history. You can find reporting on it here:

Thanks :) And thanks also for the previous notes about RedNote, because I found a bunch of what you were talking about.

So yes, I didn't disbelieve you, nor tried to imply anything, I just wanted to get more pointers to where I could read more about it myself.

X4 pro launched in July and I could buy it for 89€ now it costs 119€. And I bought the x3 in June for 50€ now it’s 89€.

So yeah that’s the strategy

I suggest buying M5Stack PaperMono instead. It's an esp32 board with an eink screen and a battery. I bet someone will make an open source firmware for it

> M5Stack PaperMono

Is that actually a product intended for consumers though? Looks more like a development board than a product for "normies", like the Xteink stuff.

They still run the same thirdparty firmware. Seeed Studio has the reTerminal Sticky too.

M5 device are cool but they do have that, as ugly as it is useful, functional diagram printed on the back...

> including that he had actually been involved in multiple previous ventures with a highly questionable track record

Considering Kindle's Bezos who's had a pristine track record?

So who is the original manufacturer of these readers?

Ok... but.. are there other companies with comparable consumer level products? If so, can you name some?

Onyx Boox will be releasing one soon ("Picco" AFAIR?). But they break GPL.

I own Palm and software is a mess.

Soon? Come now.

And no Android

The crosspoint software lists a few different manufacturers devices:

https://crosspointreader.com/devices

40% of which are the company the poster complained about :P

Yes, it was originally written for those devices. It's now branching out to support similar devices from other manufacturers.

The 90% recovery rate is not groundbreaking by itself. The real value is lower contamination and emissions—but it still needs to prove cost-effective at industrial scale.

The brand recently got caught up in controversy over falsely advertising the RAM it used. Soon after, people found out that although the founder claimed to be a self-made entrepreneur, he was actually behind several companies and had previously refused to return a large deposit.