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Ok, first impressions time...
The screen is a little bit whiter than the Sony 500. I haven't seen a 505 in person but I imagine it's pretty muc the same display. The font is clean and very readable.
Within a few minutes the device knew its name and had downloaded the two books I bought yesterday before it even shipped.
That little vertical display IS TOTALLY AMAZING!! I don't know wtf the technology is, but it's made up of little suare pixels (two wide by some number (64? haven't tried to count) hight. The PIXELS ARE REFLECTIVE SILVER when on and reflect like a (tiny) mirror. You can see yourself in them!. This display is as shokingly unique as the e-ink displays are the first time you see one.
The vertical display acts as a progress bar, a position indicator, an activity indicator (four lowest pixels cycling in a circle), etc. It's animated and over all it's the most surprising and clever feature so far. The full height is used as a progress bar when the device boots up from scratch.
Anyway, only 10 minutes so far but the whole thing is really well done and amazingly cool.
Z.
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