Back when Kindle first came out, I thought wireless was a cool feature, along with the ability to shop for books while out and about. However I rejected Kindle because of price (both of the unit and of the books).
Having bought a PRS 500 and used it for a while, the most important feature is battery life (my wife took it to Korea for a month. It needed to hold a month's worth of books and be able to stay up and running for the 18 hour flight. Her biggest issue was recharging it while in Korea. The unit sucks too much power to take a charge over a USB cable from a laptop).
The other thing I want is a bigger page. The unit may be the size of a paperback, but the usable screen is much smaller. I want the same amount of text, at the same absolute size, as I get on a paperback page. If the screen was touch sensitive, the face mounted buttons could go away to make room for a larger screen.
A screen with a faster response would be nice, and pretty much required for effective touch sceen use.
The problem is that all of these features require newer and more expensive hardware so the base price, which is already a drag on sales, would have to go up. Perhaps if they introduced a new model and dropped the price of the 505 to 199.99 sales would improve.
Anyway, a wireless Sony is not something the I would spend money on.
Fiacha
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