Thread: Interesting piece on failure of Sony to market its ereaders
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Old 12-15-2010, 09:35 AM   #43
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Another area where the 950 lacks functionality is that weblinks in ebooks don't launch the browser! I find it extremely frustrating and a major missing feature for me. My other ereaders do that! I would like to click on weblinks in ebooks to go look up an article that the author has sourced. Also, I love calibre's fetch news service for both news and blogs. I wish I could launch the browser for those links too and read the original or additional articles that are referenced!
Yes, I'm replying to myself... Big news of the day (for me) is that Sony just released a firmware update for the 950 that adds hyperlink capability. It will make the Wi-fi much more useful now. That makes me very happy this morning!

According to the firmware details:
* Hyperlink
Tap a link within text to jump to the web page via Wi-FiŽ.
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