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Originally Posted by pdavea
I spent some time fiddling with a 505 and 700 @ Tysons Corner VA today and you can immediately see the difference. The 700 is slightly yellow, dimmer and maybe a little fuzzy or matted. They don't have any good chairs there so you can't sit & read for an hour. I'm wondering if it'll matter for long reads though?
Its obvious side by side but the color & dimness are small differences like a textbook vs. a pulp newspaper. Any idea if the slight "fuzziness" matters after a long read?
The 700 does work very nice, good riddance to the 0-9 buttons.
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I, too, got to play around with the 700 and 505 side by side while in Cincinnati this weekend. I have to agree about the difference in screen background color and contrast. But I still like the capabilities of the 700. After using the touchscreen it was hard to go back to using buttons to get around.
He did say that the display model is a "prototype" and that the ones in the boxes
in their backroom :
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that they can't sell until the 14th, may in fact be better in some ways, but that he really didn't seem to know any details to elaborate on.
(How is it that I find the one SonyStyle store that isn't already selling their 700's' as I'm now finding out after catching upon 4 days of missed email and more importantly MR forums/posts?)
Concerning the battery usage of the lighting feature, he commented that some people are buying the cover with light wedge to use with the 700 (presumably when they get it) because the light wedge is powered by its own 2 AAA batteries and will not drain the 700's battery life.
I was very grateful to him for unboxing a cover with the light wedge, so that I could see how it works and compares to the 700 and its light source. The wedge lighting looked to be more evenly distributed, but I didn't care for the fact that the actual light wedge can't be folded back with the cover when you're not using it, if you want to hold it that way. Maybe thats not a big deal. But I wouldn't run out and buy the light wedge unless the drain on the battery was significant.