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Originally Posted by harryE123
I do know what I am talking about, sorry to disappoint you. I just misread 600 for 650, which is expected seeing as people are giving impressions here of the new sony models not the old ones as the op did. Now let me ask you on what they think is the case in South Jersey: If ir touchscreens are so good, how come the ipad and all smartphones use capacitance ones instead? I don't know how the ir fair, if you 'd bother to read better what I said, you 'd know that, but I am suspicious because it's a tec that close to no one uses (or maybe even no one) in the consumer market, and because capacitance screens are really very, very good to opt for an alternative it's very easy to hypothesise that cost was an issue for sony. I hope all these didn't fly over your head again.
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Yet, you seem to dismiss the counter-arguments people are placing before you (including me).
The iPad/etc use capacitive tech because it is cheap and offers good clarity. In the general order of price, resistive is the absolute cheapest, followed by capacitive closely behind, and then the various optical tech (SAW and IR) is the most expensive. Going with a capacitive display would have allowed Sony to cut the price on their readers, easily.
At the very least take a look at one of these in-store. The touch response is easily on par with previous models (and takes less of a 'press' to get a response), still allows for a stylus, and the screen clarity blows away the 505 because of the e-Ink Pearl display's higher contrast and cleaner screen. This is from my own impressions seeing them in my local Sonystyle store, and comparing them side-by-side to my 505.