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Originally Posted by viviena
Who? Me?
I'm not sure who you're responding to with your passionate post, but I agree it's better to wait and see, and quite frankly I think it's silly to proclaim that Sony Readers will still be superior compared to the upcoming Nook and Kobo models, based on our knowledge of the current Nook and Kobo models. Then again, I think it's equally silly to proclaim that Sony is going to be ground into dust by the proposed new functionality and other qualities of these upcoming models. Can't really discuss constructively unknown tech specs and usability. What I don't think is so silly to discuss are other factors that might affect the competitiveness of the current Sony Readers, such as availability and cost, and which people have brought up in this thread just as much.
Also, it's possible to want, even covet something yet not actually choose to get it in the end. It's also possible to own multiple ereaders. |
We just don't have enough information on the new touch readers to say which is better and which isn't. For all we know, Sony could make a new reader that's better and priced closer to the others. Who knows? We don't. I have a 650. Did I pay too much. No. When I bought my 650, I got it with a free light cover so overall that drops the price down. At the time I got the 650, it was the best 6" reader available.
Now as to what's better, no idea. wifi without a browser is not all that useful as I prefer to fix up my ePub so it looks good to me. So buying and then reading is not for me. If I get an ePub that's one of those eReader looking ePub, I just can't read it until it's fixed. Overall, what we know of the new readers is more of side features when how the actual reading software is. That is more important then reading stats or social networking.