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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
The screen is just one component of the reading experience. Speed and ergonomics are imho even more important, once you have a decent screen.
I started with Ebk1150 which had amazing speed and very good ergonomics - outside of weight/look - and then used the 770 for several years because of the better screen/software and pocketability, while in ergonomics it had some better qualities using the buttons customization, some slightly worse.
Then I tried the 500 and while the screen was excellent, it was so slow and had so poor ergonomics compared to what I was using that I just could not use it that much.
505 was pretty much the same as 500 in those 2 categories, maybe slightly faster and slightly better ergonomics but still far from what I wanted there - I tested it several times in the past year - but for me 700 was such a surprise in speed after hearing proclamations that eink *will always* be slow and the touch adds so much to ergonomics that until you use it you do not know what you miss.
So again it depends a lot on whatever is important for you.
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The screen is the most important thing to me, you are right about that. I don't think that the 700's screen is even "decent" though, so it simply does not work as a reader for me.
When I was in the Sony store, I did a speed test. The 505 was roughly the same as the 700 as far as page turns. Was it faster? Maybe, not noticeably so. Yes, the ergonomics are nice, but the screen is just so dull, fuzzy, and....old looking, compared to the crisp clean, almost-white e-ink screen of the 505.
I just don't see how anyone can NOT see the huge difference in these screens. I know =X= said the difference for him was negligible, but I really don't understand how that is possible, since me, the 3 salesmen, and my fiance, who has never seen a reader in her life, all agreed the 700's screen looked
terrible compared to the 505. The 700 has significantly shorter battery life as well.
Bottom line, all of this is just my opinion (and the opinion of others) but that doesn't mean I'm right or wrong. We are all entitled to our own opinions, and our opinions may differ.
My advice is to make sure you SEE the 700 before you buy it. If its acceptable to you then great, to each his own. But to blindly buy the 700, especially if you currently own a 505, just isn't smart.
It just boggles my mind how sony can release this knowing the screen does not look as good as thier previous model. It makes no sense to me.