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Originally Posted by Isles8008
I have seen some close up pictures of the PRS-T2 and from what I can tell, the physical buttons are still there, just extremely low profile and fitted to their icons.
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To me they look like capacitance-touch buttons.
My experience with those on other devices is not good; blalky at times, over-sensitive at others.
(shrug)
They're saving me money, though.
On the audio: if the T2 has no audio, that means that neither Sony nor B&N nor Kobo is offering audio ebook capabilities in their primary reader. That pretty much concedes the entire audio ebook market to Amazon. Its only a couple hundred million worth of sales a year but it leaves Kindle with a big selling point to those that care.
The dictionary? The quoted translation dicts are about right: for the north american market. German is only critical for the european market.
My take is that we are looking at a NorthAm-only configuration and that the other dictionaries were dropped to make room for Facebook and Evernote. (The euro configuration will likely be different.) Given that the T1 was app-space constrained this suggests that the unspecified specifications (
) are unchanged from the T1.
Not really sure I see how the T2 would be preferable to T1 unless you're phobic about the shiny T1 bezel. And even there the trade-offs look dubious.
The thing better hit US$79 *fast*.