09-06-2013, 12:42 AM | #61 |
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According to the Sony UK store website it's £119 not £99?
http://www.sony.co.uk/product/rd-rea...cpint=15044709 |
09-06-2013, 02:40 AM | #62 | |
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That's not a good thing. You cannot sell a non lighted ereader for more than a lighted one. Even if the screen was a better resolution it looks like a lower spec device to the average buyer. Last edited by Josieb1; 09-06-2013 at 02:43 AM. |
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09-06-2013, 04:36 AM | #63 |
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Sony decided that it isn't making devices with built-in light. The people who want built in light aren't going to be happy anyway. The people who don't care about the built in light aren't going care if the other readers have a built in light for the same price, because they aren't interested in the feature.
The Paperwhite (the first one) doesn't have expandable memory, has a 800 MHZ CPU processor instead of 1 GHz and is priced at $139 without ads. How were these good specs and price for 2012? Let me guess: the people who thought that it was great don't care about expandable memory, processor speed and don't mind the ads. |
09-06-2013, 07:36 AM | #64 | |
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I am not interested in a light but I do want a protective cover. The T3 is now top of my shortlist for an upgrade. I am looking for an ePub reader with good firmware, excellent book rendering and physical page turn buttons. |
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09-06-2013, 09:15 AM | #65 | |
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First, the CPU speed is only a marketing thing. They could have *easily* fitted a 1 GHz CPU into the KPW in 2012, and probably also in the Touch in 2011. The only reason they don't is so the next year, they can advertise by saying the reader got 25% faster. Next year (or the year after that), the CPU will be 1200 MHz, making the that Kindle another 20% faster (compared to the KPW2). It will have gained 50% speed compared to the Touch. You can feel the speed increase when booting the device, when opening huge books, looking up words, or when using the device (menu's, and such), but you can't when reading books. There are people who are still using the Kindle 3 (or even the Kindle 2 / DGX), and they also work fine. (FYI: 532 MHz CPU.) The point is, if Amazon wanted epic speed, NOW, and blow all other e-readers to kingdom come, they could have just stuck a 1.8 or 2.0 GHz CPU in there, along with maybe a battery a bit bigger to compensate for the extra power drain. They don't, because in that case, they can't advertise with 200 MHz speed bumps for 5 or 6 years. Same with internal memory. First, it costs NOTHING. SD-Cards and controllers are practically free, and software (libraries) to control them is available as open source. Even when not providing an external slot, it would be easy enough to just have the internal memory be a flash card. Kobo did it. It's actually possible to crack open a Kobo and stick a 32 GB card in it. If I'd been them, I'd have used that as marketing: slide-off back, with a slot beneath to determine your own internal memory, and provide a replaceable battery to boot. What the frack if the e-reader becomes 1mm thicker to offer that. But noooo, "marketing" wants to be able to advertise with the fact that their reader is now 0.5mm thinner than others (VERY IMPORTANT if you're below the 10mm mark, or your reader will become impossible to handle!), and with the extra SD-Card slot. No matter that this arrangement splits up the memory and ditches the exchangeable battery... Second, many people don't need to take their entire library of books with them. I can understand it on an MP3 player; it's entirely possible to say: "Now I want to hear this or that album" (or even one song), and be annoyed if it's not on there. It's not really possible to say: "Now I'm going to read this book", and 5 minutes later read another, and the next hour, read yet another. That would be quite useless. Also, you don't read books once every other day, as you can with regard to listening to a music album. Of course people will tell you: "But if I'm going on vacation, I may not know what to read so I want to take everything." Did you also do that 15 years ago? Did you also take 5000 paper books with you? In case you're afraid of not knowing what to read, just stuff 500 or 1000 books on the reader, and you'll be able to find something. Many people haven't even seen 500 or 1000 books in their entire life, outside a library. Third, Amazon doesn't even want you to store books on the e-reader. It's just a device to read the book and then read another, preferably by buying it directly from the device, in their store. They'll be "nice" and save it in the cloud for you, so you can find it there, if you ever need it again. If they'd be completely honest though, they'd rather much have you read the book and then have it dissappear, leaving you to pay again if you wanted to read it again. They would, if they could get away with it. It's not about the specifications; they are all just marketing. A company such as Amazon could create one reader to end all readers for the next 10 years, if they wanted to, but they don't. It's not good for marketing and keeping the people buying for 10 years. And the same goes for any other big technology company. Last edited by Katsunami; 09-06-2013 at 09:52 AM. |
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09-06-2013, 09:37 AM | #66 | |
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Lets hope enough readers by them to keep Sony in the business |
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09-06-2013, 09:40 AM | #67 |
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Sony will keep for shure in the business. There is not only the normal reader. Sony is also working on big reader called mobius:
http://www.gizmag.com/sony-student-e...-mobius/27489/ |
09-06-2013, 09:41 AM | #68 | |
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Me too. I will upgrade my T1 to the T3. Looks very fine. There could be some more improvements on the firmware, but it still very nice. Far better the the upgrade T1 to T2. |
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09-06-2013, 09:49 AM | #69 |
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Yes you can-to 3 people. All of them on this forum!
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09-06-2013, 11:32 AM | #70 |
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Of course you can. A bad ereader with light is not a match for a good ereader without one and i am not saying such and such are good or bad, just stating that there are more specs that are important to a user than front light, and using just that parameter to judge the quality and suitability of a ereader is reductive.
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09-06-2013, 12:18 PM | #71 | |
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But if people feel that the price of the device should reflect the specs, then they should consider all the specs. |
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09-06-2013, 01:11 PM | #72 | |
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09-06-2013, 02:55 PM | #73 | |
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Oh, Sony. You really are more out of touch then I thought.
Putting all that design effort into a $50 fancy lighted cover that is attached, and then STILL using the glossy finish on the readers. It's bad enough that glossy finish causes glare with the old stem lights, but the new cover has a fixed position, so you're stuck with the glare. At least I can attempt to reposition the stem light to lower a hot spot. That white sure looks like glossy finish, although maybe the black is matte like the T2 black was. Quote:
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09-06-2013, 03:10 PM | #74 | |
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I could argue also that a person that spends money in a device just for reading (since web browsing is not very practical) does that because it gives a great value to the experience of reading, and to books. I think having a light OR having a great screen or readability will have very different impacts in the buying choices of these customers. |
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09-06-2013, 03:22 PM | #75 |
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...and when i say educated, i don't mean necessarily educated in technical stuff, but willing and able to differentiate between his or hers main requirements, finding them in the devices and able to choose accordingly.
And i believe people who value reading value the experience, consequently put some value on the device and do not, as you say "don't know or care" about the specs of the device they choose to read. What i think it happens is that not everyone who uses and likes ereaders comes to a forum to talk about them, but i do believe that the majority of readers that choose to have an ereader does not choose one as you pretend they do. People who read and love books are special. |
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