JSWolf is correct, the PRS-505 has 8 shades of gray, my bad. Still though, photo's look a whole lot better on the 650.
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Originally Posted by MerLock
Is there no longer an issue with glare ... How about battery life? ... Any idea if the sensors constantly draw power or only if the screen is touched?
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Merlock, the PRS-650 still has some glare, but similar to the 505 and far, far less than the 600 series.
My guess is that the infrared sensors constantly draw power. This might be a reason why the 650 goes into sleep mode after being idle for 10 minutes (in default setting). But the PRS-505 has a battery life of 7000 page turns, and the 650 has 10.000 page turns, so I guess that evens things up. By the way, I don't know any person who's reader actually made it to 7000 pages on one battery charge. Mostly the PRS-505's or PRS-300's we've used are empty after about 1000 to 1500 page turns. Keep in mind that there are more power consumers than just the screen. For instance, formatting the font size of an LRF book, browsing through a library, loading a book, using an SD card, etc. etc. all affects the power consumption. Maybe that's why Sony now talks about a battery life of "2 weeks" besides the 10.000 page turns that are mentioned somewhere.