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Originally Posted by anamardoll
Funny enough, the new Nook Touch caused me to buy a Sony PRS-950.  |
If you got one of the $199 PRS-950's at Best Buy, I agree that's a hell of a deal (I paid that for my 650).
On the other hand, online at SonyStyle, Sony is asking 299.99 (aren't you glad that's it's not 300?), which is another matter entirely.
I know you are feeling pretty smug now about all the 950's 'advantages' over the Nook, so I hate to point this out, but because the new Nook is Android based, it's a pretty safe bet that it's only going to be a matter of time until it will be rooted and unlocked, at which point it will very quickly have about 50 times the functionality of the PRS-950.
The Nook Touch is one of the first eInk Android devices, and not all Andorid apps are going to be a good match, because, aside from not having features like GPS and and orientation sensor, the lack of color and slow update speed of eInk is always going to be a limiting factor.
But I can still think of dozens of app categories that WILL work, and work quite well, on the Nook. Things like interactive novels, fancy calculators for businessmen, and though the limited graphics will eliminate some of the more popular jerky-twitchy games, there will still be literally hundreds of others like chess, crossword, and other puzzle and word games.
By years end, there are expected to be more than FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND apps available in the Android Market, and if even 1% of those work on the Touch Nook, then that would be about 4000.
When this happens though, you can take some comfort from the fact that your 950 does have a slightly larger screen, because that's one thing it will alway have that the Nook Touch doesn't.
When I played with a 950, the only thing I didn't like was the fact that the browser was a little twitchy when updating and didn't work at all in landscape. If this is still the case, it wouldn't surprise me a bit, and it won't surprise me when it's STILL THE CASE A YEAR FROM NOW.
Ironically, with the Nook running Android, and Sony's near non-existent support, I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see a nicer more stable web-browser with
both portrait and landscape support running on Nook well before I see one running on Sony's PRS-950.
No guarantees on that though, so if someone is really looking for these kinds of goodies, best thing they can probably do is WAIT AND SEE.