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07-30-2009, 02:57 PM | #107 |
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I think Sony is on the right track with these from a marketing perspective. The 300, if priced right -- and I suspect it will be very cheap indeed -- will appeal to all of the Target customers who just want a basic reader. It's the 600 I can't figure out. Perhaps they've realized the 700 is too pricey to survive in the marketplace and have scaled back features to make it more affordable and to resolve the complaints about the screen.
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07-30-2009, 02:58 PM | #108 |
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I hoped for 8" model....
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07-30-2009, 03:01 PM | #109 | |
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I sure didn't look THAT closely. I stand corrected again (and again, and again . . . ) I keep forgetting to use these little guys. (Tongue-in-cheek, grain of salt, and all that.) |
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07-30-2009, 03:03 PM | #110 |
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Chances are these are real. Why would anybody spend so much time, money and effort to come up with such misinformation? Doesn't make a whole lot of sense. If Sony wanted to throw in a red herring, they could have leaked some photos or design sketches, there was no need to create service manuals.
The question is, why would Sony replace a popular PRS-505 with something so obviously inferior. I hope the answer proves to be that the PRS-300 is the basic reader, really really cheap, Walmart style, and the PRS-600 actually does possess more functionality and appeal than PRS-505. I expect the prices to be in the $160-200 range for PRS-300, and around $300 for PRS-600, which is essentially a PRS-700 without a front light. |
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Cause I'm interested in what folks might have to say about this. My own take, fwiw, is that 6" feels a tad large for some stuff and is definitely too small for other uses. Factoring in that the Hanlin and Cybook 5" are exactly the width of a paperback (a format optimized over 50 years) has me interested in holding one in my hands for an extended test. Conversely, my experience with 10" Tablet PC tells me that 10" is great for PDFs and textbooks but less useful for fiction. Hopefully as the business matures we'll see some experimental stuff at 7" and 8". The odd thing about this Sony 300 is that it is physically the same size as the 600; which suggests Sony is going with the 5" screen as a cost-reduction move rather than on ergonomic grounds. |
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As to the statement about starting web rumors; isn't that what happens with all this speculation anyway. We'll know the true outcome when Sony makes whatever there doing public, and not a minute sooner. |
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07-30-2009, 03:15 PM | #116 |
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Actually, the Boeing 717 was originally released long after the 727, 737, 747, 757, 767, and 777.
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07-30-2009, 03:22 PM | #118 |
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Huh? The PDFs I downloaded show a 5/8" difference in both the W and H. While it doesn't sound like much, it trims a decent bit of area off the footprint.
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07-30-2009, 03:42 PM | #119 | |
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I don't like the idea of a 5" reader as the simple, "lite" intro version, rather than being treated as a viable size for a full-featured ebook reader. |
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07-30-2009, 03:44 PM | #120 |
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