It's time for me to go to sleep so I'll try to make this short (which is not usually my strong side
).
I've had the PRS-505 for three years (completely satisfied), then recently considered upgrading to the PRS-950 (because of many improvements but mostly the new screen) but then heard a new generation would come out soon and decided to wait and see what it would be like (which now seems to have been a mistake).
Sony seems to have had only one development guideline with the new generation - make it AS CHEAP AS POSSIBLE ! Now it seems it's almost complete crap and the older PRS-950 has suddenly gone out of sale almost everywhere and is only available on Amazon and a few eBay sellers at outrageous prices (around 400$, a lot more then it used to be).
Now I need to quickly make a decision on whether the new model is really a total frack-up and if so buy the 950 before it disappears completely (even at these blackmail prices). But I haven't seen any decent thorough reviews (give links if you know) as the device seems to not be really out yet (at least in the shops) and what I've seen is just marketing fluff or listing the features that have already been around for the last several generations of the Sony Reader.
So I'll just give a quick comparison of the main differences and you correct me and fill in what you notice missing and consider important enough, OK ?
For the PRS-950 :
1. PRS-950 is bigger (that 1 inch is usefull IMHO)
2. PRS-950 is metal, PRS-T1 is glossy plastic (much worse IMHO)
3. PRS-T1 has a weaker battery ? (not sure, but several sources say it's weaker then all the others, and it's practically impossible to find exact numbers in
Wh)
4. PRS-T1 has no stylus (don't care much about this one, e-reader are for reading not writing to me, and anyway I've almost forgotten how to write by hand since elementary school, I only write sticky-notes by hand now
)
For the PRS-T1 :
1. It's 2.5 times cheaper (which still isn't enough to convince me to buy it if it's not good)
2. It looks a bit nicer (I don't much like the change in design from the 505 to the 950, the fake book-spine and the cut-off corners, the PRS-T1 seems more like a sleek gadget) but I haven't had time to search for really good pics
The screen is the same (except for size), right ? Software features mostly same, buttons identical ? Basically they just put the same technology in a junkier body to cheapen it, is that it ?
Thanks for the help...