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Originally Posted by seajewel
ok, my quick thoughts. It is impossibly light. I couldn't figure out how to charge it--only by USB? that's a bummer. charging by USB is so slow. My battery had two charges left, so it was not depleted.
I'm not sure if I'm going to keep it. I'll have to figure out what the return policy is, but.. I'm sort of disappointed by the 350 because of two issues.
A) the Pearl screen.. I did expect it to be a noticeable upgrade from my 505. Either I have an amazing 505, or a bad 350, or pearl isn't all that it was hyped up to be. Because I can barely see a difference in background paleness or text darkness. I tried looking at it in sunlight, in bright indoors light, not much of a difference, side by side. Then again, I didn't have much of a complaint about my 505, ever. I thought the screen had good contrast from the get-go. Both my 350 and 505 have silver bezel, btw, so it's not that.
B) Excessive screen flashing. Right away I felt like the 350 flashes more than my 505. I had gotten so used to the 505 that when I concentrated on the page flashing I realized it does so more than I thought, but it's less than the 350. the 350 has a way of sort of wobbling into the next page, so it's like it flashes twice, almost. or flashes "darker." This bothers me.
overall, i like that it is very light, but I'm bummed at the lack of a way to charge it other than by USB (unless I'm missing something), and I don't like the screen flashing. I want something with side page turn buttons, also. Maybe I'll look at the newly $99 Nook STR, or still wait for the Cybook Odyssey.
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I don't notice the problems with the screen, but I never had a 505. And wobbling onto the next page??? Maybe something is wrong with it. BUT once again I've only had a PRS 350 so I have nothing to compare to.
As for the charging, I use my cell phone charger (a mini USB). And it charges in less than an hour if it is way down. I think the refurbished I got went from dead to fully charged in about 45 minutes. Most of the time, I recharge when it goes down to 2 bars & it recharges within a half hour.
I think the flashing on my T1 was more pronounced than on my 350.
The Nook STR is a nice reader, never had a Cybook but it does look kind of nice (the Odyssey). Good luck. I don't know if it is returnable, you'll have to check with Sony. I would hope so.