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Originally Posted by Dave Berk
Positively  . Only the casing is made of plastic. In the words of Google Translate: "Corps device is made of dark-sulfur plastic ends on - a metal alloy." |
Ok, I'll translate for you, Russian being my native language. First, the guy who wrote this has made a typo, and wrote "темно-сер
ного" (dark-sulfur) instead of "темно-серого" (dark-gray). He did mean the body housing, not the "casing" or cover or whatever.
When pressed on the "plastic" issue at the Russian eBook forum, the guy ("berboris") conceded that he actually wasn't sure what the housing was made of. He said "it felt like plastic", and the ends "felt like metal". Chances are it's the other way around. If you want to get a definitive answer, you should ask other people who got to handle the device, as this information is virtually worthless.
The web page also shows pictures with Russian text on the Reader. That's Russian PDF with built-in fonts, which the Sony Readers were able to display from the very beginning of PRS-500. The new Reader (PRS-700) doesn't appear to have full Unicode support, just as its predecessors. It has the same set of Bitstream fonts as PRS-505 and PRS-500.