Thanks Geoff.
A lot of the listed retail chains have no shop in Milan, although they do have in Milan's region.
I did find a few in Milan (MarcoPolo Expert) but I started this search backwards (from the last shops to first in the list) and I kinda lost my patience meanwhile. I didn't reach bow.it (mentioned on another thread), Feltrinelli and MediaWorld. Anyway, I'm only staying two days there.
Meanwhile I managed to see today an Orizon in my country (somewhere in the outskirts of the Galaxy...err... Europe
).
The case seems very well built (is that good quality plastic or metal? I'm not sure - EDIT: plastic, according to this:
http://www.ebookanoid.com/2010/09/28...cybook-orizon/).
The display is readable, but for with a little lower contrast than eInk (I had an eInk device side by side). I wouldn't say it's easier to read than eink, like the review mentioned above writes, but indeed the covers seemed to have a little better qulity (that, or the pictures had different resolution in the the devices I compared
)
My biggest concern was that on some review (sipix vs eink) the reviewer wrote that the background is more grayish (which is true) and the font is less black - which I wans't sure because in other review I read the black on sipix is a little "blacker". And indeed, the black is blacker (let's say 5% blacker) while the background is darker (like 10-15% darker).
Overall, the contrast is lower but still readable - in the end, you still need a light source anyway.
The speed is ok-ish
but could be better (no difference to the eink device - that depends of course on the CPU, too). The touchscreen is not always responsive when turing page (a few times my finger slide was not detected) but I can live with that (I'm sure I'll use the D-pad anyway for page turns).
Nice device, elegant, well built, a little too expensive for its features IMHO, too bad the display is not eInk.
Last Edit and sorry for the long post: Next week I'm gonna have my Orizon delivered (hopefully). I'll be back