View Single Post
Old 05-25-2016, 11:57 AM   #520
allochi
Connoisseur
allochi is kind to children and small, furry animalsallochi is kind to children and small, furry animalsallochi is kind to children and small, furry animalsallochi is kind to children and small, furry animalsallochi is kind to children and small, furry animalsallochi is kind to children and small, furry animalsallochi is kind to children and small, furry animalsallochi is kind to children and small, furry animalsallochi is kind to children and small, furry animalsallochi is kind to children and small, furry animalsallochi is kind to children and small, furry animals
 
Posts: 88
Karma: 6770
Join Date: Jun 2014
Device: Kobo Aura
@T.W.G Thanks, you were right! the Sony device feels much more dedicated and well thought, someone did their homework well at Sony, the build quality is amazing too, I feel I'm holding a quality device in my hand, hand writing is great too, now that I did the calibration, my hand writing feels more like what it would look like on paper.

@xtech
Once I get sometime I will try to take some photos and videos on both, keep in mind that I have the Onyx M96 Plus, not the Onyx Max, the Max could be a completely different experience. My M96 Plus is 1GB + iMX6 1Ghz, which is also unfair for the Sony, but in reality I like the Sony experience better. Also, I updated recently the software from Booxter website, and the M96 Plus felt much faster and snappier than before the update, so Onyx has done good job too.

I kinda wanted to put the Sony under some real browsing test, and it did quit well, it was fast enough to make me enjoy browsing wikipedia, Quora, some blogs and download some PDF, I just realized that when I was excited trying all my PDFs, the Sony kept them loaded in the memory, once I started closing them, the reader started to respond faster, the browser did great.

Another thing that worried me before, was how much I will miss the zooming/cropping functions in M96 Plus, well, I don't, almost all the books render in full size, so I don't need zooming.

One document has some big margins and the font is small, I later found out that if I keep the side tool bar on, and zoom, I can use the next/previous arrows to turn pages, and the reader will keep the zoom level, this is wonderful, unfortunately, the zoom level is not saved when you close/reopen the document.

@Kumabjorn as T.W.G said, you have two kind of bubble notes if you want to call them this way, text based with a keyboard, and drawing based with the pen, their icons look different too on the document, I found that the drawing note really useful when I did some math today reading my probability book, I was able to solve multiple problems and save the solutions next to the problem in the book, this is quit a big thing, because this way I can easily find my notes and solutions when I read the chapter again.

Please keep in mind that in no way I'm saying that the Sony is better than the Onyx, I like the Sony better for the same reasons I keep saying touch screen, weight and software. My experience with Onyx was enjoyable too, and the support and the service that Booxter provide is really amazing.

Last edited by allochi; 05-31-2016 at 12:38 PM.
allochi is offline   Reply With Quote