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I'm glad to see that Sony has found a way to get the price down. The ereader market is expanding fast and Sony was obliged to produce a product in the same ballpark as the Kindle, Nook and Kobo readers if it wanted to have any relevance at all.
They're chasing new customers, and that's what makes sense right now. Unfortunately it means that this release offers little or nothing to those who already own an x50 reader.
Dual-touch zoom - meh.
Lower weight - nice, but my 650 is already light enough, and its weight is doubled by the case I use (and the clip-on light when I read in bed) so I doubt I'd notice any difference.
Wifi - personally, a double-meh. I want to be able to organise my books (and strip the DRM, fix the css, correct the typos) on my PC. I always have at least 3-4 books waiting in my 'to be read next' list, as well as many others hanging around on my reader that I might want to read when I get around to it. I have no need to buy books straight from my reader, but I know plenty of people for whom this would definitely be an advantage simply because of their lack of technical sophistication. The last thing I want on my reader is the ability to distract myself with Wikipedia, but again I can see how some might like this.
Glossy, plastic case - yuck.
So I can see this as a very nice model for those new to ereaders, with a more polished interface than the Kobo and Nook for around the same pirce. But if you've already got a x50 (and especially a 950) I can't see any reason to change.
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