I'm Waiting to Purchase a PRS-700

SonyFan · 10-10-2008, 04:44 PM

Hello, All,

I'm definately buying one! - As I'm in London, this will have to be ordered from the States. I intend (after several recomendations on these boards) to use B + H - They are now listing it on their site.

Whilst waiting for it to become available, I came across this -
http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com/20...-700-part-one/

I thought a very interesting article - especially Part Two's review of PRS-700 - I'm also watching the 'Reader Revolution' stunt in New York - Watching the webcam on the street is quite fun, as well as his daily blog -
http://uk.youtube.com/ReaderRevolution

Also reading 'A Study in Scarlett' - Sherlock Holmes

Regards,

jonbaber · 10-10-2008, 05:08 PM

I'll be buying one from B&H as well. Its just a shame about the Aussie - US exchange rate tanking... if it keeps on going like this, by the time it is available, I won't be able to justify such a high price!

DDHarriman · 10-10-2008, 05:17 PM

Outstanding review!

I love the first part and the way he can "stick" a person into reading the rest. Great!

And I agree, the second part is a great presentation to what the prs 700 is.

Dave Berk · 10-11-2008, 12:25 PM

I'll be buying one as well. You will need to hurry, though. IIRC, after the PRS-505 came out it didn't take long for B&H to ran out of stock. They restocked pretty fast, but there was a delay.
Also, Mike Cane's ebooks blog is very good.

venkatesh · 10-14-2008, 11:50 AM

Nov 14th is when it going on sale in the US. Sony style has page with details for PRS 700 and it says it runs on an intel celeron processor

MerLock · 10-14-2008, 12:45 PM

Kind of funny. I went to the sony style us site and check out the specifications for the 700 hoping to find the dimensions of it. I couldn't find that but I did see

"Screen Size : 6? Measured Diagonally

Technology : E Ink® ?Electronic Paper?

Service and Warranty Information
Limited Warranty Term : Limited Warranty ?"

I see a lot of "?" marks all over the place. Are they unsure about the screen size, technology and the warranty?

I'm suprised people don't look over what they put up online, especially from a big name brand store like Sony.

DaleDe · 10-14-2008, 01:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MerLock

Kind of funny. I went to the sony style us site and check out the specifications for the 700 hoping to find the dimensions of it. I couldn't find that but I did see

"Screen Size : 6? Measured Diagonally

Technology : E Ink® ?Electronic Paper?

Service and Warranty Information
Limited Warranty Term : Limited Warranty ?"

I see a lot of "?" marks all over the place. Are they unsure about the screen size, technology and the warranty?

I'm suprised people don't look over what they put up online, especially from a big name brand store like Sony.

No, they are using characters that are not available in the font they chose or the character set they are using. I already forwarded an email to them to correct these issues as well as the missing items like the size of the device. These kinds of things are typically because the marketing guy submitted a word document with curly quotes and other special characters to a IT guy that just pasted in the text on the page. Read about special characters on our wiki.

Dale

MerLock · 10-14-2008, 03:35 PM

I understand how it probably happened but I'm surprised they didn't "proof" their final work. In my opinion it should've been something easy to catch.

10-10-2008, 04:44 PM	#1
SonyFan Words Are Truth! Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Surrey, England Device: Sony PRS-700	I'm Waiting to Purchase a PRS-700 Hello, All, I'm definately buying one! - As I'm in London, this will have to be ordered from the States. I intend (after several recomendations on these boards) to use B + H - They are now listing it on their site. Whilst waiting for it to become available, I came across this - http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com/20...-700-part-one/ I thought a very interesting article - especially Part Two's review of PRS-700 - I'm also watching the 'Reader Revolution' stunt in New York - Watching the webcam on the street is quite fun, as well as his daily blog - http://uk.youtube.com/ReaderRevolution Also reading 'A Study in Scarlett' - Sherlock Holmes Regards,

10-14-2008, 11:50 AM	#5
venkatesh Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2008 Device: sony reader prs 700	Nov 14th Nov 14th is when it going on sale in the US. Sony style has page with details for PRS 700 and it says it runs on an intel celeron processor

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10-10-2008, 05:08 PM	#2
jonbaber Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Device: PRS-500	I'll be buying one from B&H as well. Its just a shame about the Aussie - US exchange rate tanking... if it keeps on going like this, by the time it is available, I won't be able to justify such a high price!

10-10-2008, 05:17 PM	#3
DDHarriman Guru Posts: 860 Karma: 4380 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Almada, Portugal Device: Cybook Gen3, Sony PRS 505, Kindle DXG and Samsung Galaxy Note	Outstanding review! I love the first part and the way he can "stick" a person into reading the rest. Great! And I agree, the second part is a great presentation to what the prs 700 is.

10-11-2008, 12:25 PM	#4
Dave Berk Fanatic Posts: 574 Karma: 138556 Join Date: May 2006 Device: PRS505	I'll be buying one as well. You will need to hurry, though. IIRC, after the PRS-505 came out it didn't take long for B&H to ran out of stock. They restocked pretty fast, but there was a delay. Also, Mike Cane's ebooks blog is very good.

10-14-2008, 12:45 PM	#6
MerLock Evangelist Posts: 411 Karma: 1034889 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: none	Kind of funny. I went to the sony style us site and check out the specifications for the 700 hoping to find the dimensions of it. I couldn't find that but I did see "Screen Size : 6? Measured Diagonally Technology : E Ink® ?Electronic Paper? Service and Warranty Information Limited Warranty Term : Limited Warranty ?" I see a lot of "?" marks all over the place. Are they unsure about the screen size, technology and the warranty? I'm suprised people don't look over what they put up online, especially from a big name brand store like Sony.

10-14-2008, 03:35 PM	#8
MerLock Evangelist Posts: 411 Karma: 1034889 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: none	I understand how it probably happened but I'm surprised they didn't "proof" their final work. In my opinion it should've been something easy to catch.