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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
But dark chocolate and a good single malt are a woman's best friends.  |
That's good to know, may come in handy (in my future conquests...
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But I'd still rather take hazelnut chocolate and coconut rum.
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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
The sun glare off the silver was hurting my eyes whenever I was trying to read outside.
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It's those weird reptile eyes of yours, you scaly freak !
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Make sure you actually get a chance to use a 950 before you pay such a huge premium.
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Nice idea but how do you imagine that ? That option would only be available to someone living in the US, and only in the larger cities at that. And probably London.
I don't think I've ever seen ANY e-reader in an electronics store, although you can find smartphones, digital cameras and LCD TVs by the truckload...
My friends usually try out expensive smartphones in the store before they buy them, but I usually rely on reading various reviews and being well informed, and I've never been regretted my choice of gadget so far.
Plus I have the 505 so I have a good idea of what the 950 will be like, it's not like I've never seen an e-reader in my life.
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Originally Posted by JayB
I also dont understand why you are bashing the T1 so hard. Have you held one yet. It might be plastic but there are different grades of plastic. I'm sure it is going to be a very nice piece of hardware.
All I'm saying is that the only advantages of the 950 are 3g and a 7" screen if those two things are worth the difference go for it.
If you are expecting the 950 to feel all metal and as well constructed as something like an Ipod touch 4g I think you are going to be dissapointed.
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Well I don't own an iPod and don't care to own anything that starts with an iP***.
But as far as metal feel and well constructed goes I can't imagine anything feeling better than my 505, and don't expect the 950 to be any worse in that respect.
As for the advantages of the 950, I have somewhat different views from yours, as you will see.
And as for bashing the T1, I don't have anything personal against it and admit it's a perfectly decent e-reader, maybe ideal for e-reader beginners (because of the price), but it has practically no hardware improvements or new features over the new generation (while I was definitely expecting some improvements and hoping for decent color e-paper), it's mostly just the same device in a cheaper body (and without the stylus bay). Not really next-gen, but more of an economy class version.
Sony had the lead in technology in the e-reader market ever since the Librie in 2004. until now.
Now then, after some research around the web I've found the info I was looking for, so now I'll lay it out here for anyone who might be in the same dilemma in the future, in the form of a list of advantages of each of these two devices relative to the other, and ordered by importance (of course, both the choice of the advantages and their order is a matter of personal preference, so judge by your own standards) :
• 950 has a 1“ bigger display (and therefore also a bigger body), which also makes the 2-page landscape mode possible /both big pro for me
• 950 seems to have a stronger battery* /big pro for me
• 950 has better design (it's silver and the T1 is glossy white, it has a metal casing while the T1 has a plastic one, and it's of even thickness while the T1 is very thin except for the ugly bump on the part with the ports) /big pro for me
• 950 has a stylus bay a T1 nema /very small pro
• 950 takes SD cards and the T1 takes microSD cards /unimportant as I won't be using a card anyway but would otherwise be a small pro
• 950 has 3G and the T1 doesn't /don't give a damn
o T1 is about 2.5 times cheaper /very important pro
o T1 has multiple font shapes and sizes while the 950 only has mutiple sizes /unimportant since the same thing can be achieved by installing PRS+
o T1 has multitouch pinch-zoom /unimportant since the 950's zoom button and slider zoom are more than enough for me
o T1 is significantly lighter than the 505 (67% weight) and 950 is negligibly heavier than the 505 (109% weight) /unimportant for me since the 505 feels very light to me
o T1 supposedly has a faster processor /very iffy and unconfirmed, and even if it's true it's completely irrelevant to me as I don't need to surf on my e-reader (my netbook is for that) and a way older processor would be more than enough for just reading
EDIT : I've just read in another thread in this subforum that the T1 may not be available for many months, while the 950 is still available (though only at a few eBay and Amazon sellers and at outrageous prices) so that's another big reason for anyone who wants an e-reader NOW to choose the 950 (or 650/350)...
*judging from the maximum page turn number stated on Sony's website (many others which are completely different are mentioned all around the web) and from the duration of charging from a computer's USB port it seems the 950's battery is
significantly stronger (how much it's hard to say, but maybe 50%-100%) than the T1's battery
I know why Sony went down the cheap route, but what I don't understand is why they narrowed the selection down to just one model. Obviously there are many people who want smaller and bigger models, and that's a practically untapped market since almost all competing e-readers are 6".
Well, according to the list above, for me the T1 has absolutely no advantages compared to the 950 except for price, while the 950 has major advantages in size, battery capacity and design.
So now I only have to decide whether to get ripped off now (cursing myself and Sony for not buying the 950 sooner when it was cheaper), or wait a long time for a much better model to come along (and it might a very long time indeed, since it seems the whole e-reader industry has set it's goals way lower lately).
If any of you have an idea on how to get a
new 950 more cheaply I'm all ears...
EDIT2 :
Noticed many new auctions for PRS-950 on eBay today, but unfortunately mostly US only, and they're selling refurbished /
used like new devices above MSRP (300$), that's insane ! Incredible how stupid Sony is, letting the money go to the resellers instead of them, they could just sell the devices at MSRP easily, instead of just pulling them off the market !