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Originally Posted by alexxxm
Weeks after the promised review, we are still in the dark.
And today we have "Official Sony PRS-505 Press Release", "Sony rolls out Sony Reader PRS-505!", "Sony Reader PRS-505 -- MobileRead.com's Conference Call With Sony" one after the other.
I guess Cybook scrambled bad their timing - and I fear that if no review appears in a while I will go happily with the 505...
Alessandro
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Alessandro,
Normally, I'd agree with you. I guess why we're holding off is because Bookeen's Cybook Gen3 is not yet in market production. We're working off engineering samples and what we've been told will be included in the final production release of the hardware/firmware is sufficiently advanced from what we have on the engineering samples as to invalidate much of what we could review. If we wrote a review based upon our current version, having the Vizplex display in the Cybook would not be enough to warrant buying one over a Sony PRS-500, much less a PRS-505 or Hanlin V3. But we *ARE* just a month away from the production model - with all it's firmware and hardware features significantly improved over the engineering samples.
Hell, just having the firmware update that was used to create Bookeen's latest video clip would make a significant difference. To give a comparison, it would be like writing a review of Windows 3.11 just before the market release of Windows 95. Oops!
And that would be misleading to potential customers - and a dis-service to both users and Bookeen.
I'm not saying I couldn't live with the Cybook I've got right now - no updates. I could. I'm saying if I gave it a complete review right now, when Bookeen is so close to having a solid, stable device that can hold it's own in the market, based upon a severely limited pre-production device - that would be misleading.
So I have to wait until the firmware update arrives and I can give a more accurate post.
Derek