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Originally Posted by Ripplinger
I never had the T1 or T2 as a comparison. My first reader was the 350 and it's still my favorite reader of choice. As far as being lazy about firmware updates, it works perfectly as it should, period. There's no need for firmware updates every month like Kobo does (in fact, that's one of the things I absolutely hate about the Kobo, they don't fix current bugs and introduce new ones with each firmware, and finally changed the UI to something I think is just ugly). When the reader is rock solid and functions as it should, there's no need to keep changing the firmware.
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I agree with you, for the most part, but Sony does occasionally leave bugs that they never fix. The 600 was my first one and it would occasionally take a notion to corrupt/delete all of your annotations even though I was running the last released firmware. I have the T1 and haven't rooted mine (mainly because its my main reader). I'm not on the most recent firmware which patches the root exploit, but the one before. The T1 occasionally will skip pages. There are two issues around this:
- Press the page forward button and it will go forward 2 pages instead of 1 (you can see the two pages flip in quick succession). Press the page back button and you're back to where you're supposed to be. This is almost like a key debounce issue although some have theorized it might be something on the infrared touch screen causing spurious page turns (which I have seen if a cat hair or crumb of food gets on the screen).
- You'll be on page 137 by the display and press the page forward button and get page 139. Pressing page forward and back will completely skip the intervening pages. Exiting back to the home screen and re-opening the book fixes this one.
Both happen just frequently enough to be annoying, but not so frequently that they're a major frustration. From what I've heard, the last released firmware was more to plug the root exploit than fix known issues like these. For the most part, I would say the Sony readers have been rock solid, though.
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Originally Posted by Ripplinger
I know about the article that said Sony will never have a built-in light, but I'm still hoping it's wrong and they will give in. I'd buy a new Sony in a heartbeat and get rid of the Glo if the next one had a built-in light.
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This was Sony France. I believe that the person speaking was expressing a personal opinion and may not even be in the know about what Sony is planning globally. I also hope they will include front lighting. They were innovators in the ereader field and have slipped behind.
