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Originally Posted by Quexos
EDIT: It appears there is a Nook with a glowing screen for night reading. So not only Sony fails in adding a glow feature but it's been done before so it's not even new so to speak.
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Worse.
A couple years back, Amazon bought a company working on frontlighting light-guide tech and is widely expected to have a front-light model coming "real-soon-now". Probably before november.
There is also an independent company that has been shopping around their own light-guide film to all comers.
So what Sony has done is *reduced* the hardware features of their 2012 model to match the feature set of *last year's* Nook STR, the one that "underperformed" over the 2011 holidays and which is still available for US$79-99. (Or free in occasional sales.)
The best thing to do with the T2--at least in North America--is wait. That US$129 price won't last at retail more than a month. Since the feature set is now comparable to the Nook STR and Kobo Touch the price will have to match their pricing.
What it will sell for internationally I won't even guess but if Sony doesn't come within a few euros of the K4 and Kobo their T2 sales likely won't even match their disappointing T1 sales.
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/20...ifi-in-europe/
Unless the hackers find gold in these boxes...