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Originally Posted by Ripplinger
The buttons on Sony's x50 line of readers were ideal to me. They were small enough that having them didn't really add much to the size of the reader and unobtrusive, yet gave you full control over everything.
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Yes. I liked the 650 and at the end it came down to a choice between that and the T2. I went for the T2 in the end for the wi-fi connectivity and slightly more modern design.
I just think Sony is missing a trick here with these control buttons. Whilst they are there quite clearly for functional reasons that shouldn’t mean they can’t be more sympathetically incorporated into the overall casing design. The overall ergonomic feel of the T2 is very nice—except for those clunky, hard, shiny buttons.
It’s not even as if the function of those five buttons is going to be hard to forget. Without even looking at my T2 I can remember the two buttons on the left are for page back and forward, the middle the home button, the next one the back one step and the one on the far right for bringing up preference panels.
Why do they have to be so prominent and glaring in bright silver? The whole device would have been so much nicer had they been toned down, the button material changed into a rubberised one, in a matching colour to the case and perhaps the symbols indented into them in case you did forget what they were for.
It’s a shame—Sony could elevate their products into being really nice ones with a little more thought and care in the product design area. It’s the attention to these types of little details that turn run of the mill, average products into ones people really want to buy and enjoy using. This is particularly important in such a hotly contested market as ereaders.