[ManDay]

I'm afraid from all that can be gathered through the reviews I have to concur with juegos and their opinion about the software.

At first, I was enthusiastic about the device given my great experience with the DPT-S1. But it appears now that Sony has (needlessly, to all I think) removed both, features which I found useful and features which I deem outright essential for the device (see navigation).

Circucising the software, like removing the browser was a bad idea i.m.o. I, too, LarryNYC, rarely used the browser, but every now and then I actually needed it. More importantly, I did indeed often, and for a long time (off the grid, on the train, etc.) use the DPT S1 long away from any (let alone my own) computer. Transfering files via ocassional inet access from and to a shared cloud backing store was indeed essential. Now it seems this option has been removed in favour of a more complicated Windows mediated solution. A very, very unfortunate decision in my opinion and indeed, should my DPT S1 break, I would try to obtain a replacement rather than buying the new iteration.

For my purpose, and supposedly the main intended purpose of the device, being reading documents and annotating them and making sketches, a high resolution screen is not important and the speed at which I could flip pages and documents was, though not particularly awesome, at least sufficient.

Bottom line: I very much share juego's opinion on the matter and, worse, am also little confident that Sony will revert these changes to the better (Edit: apart from the puzzling lack of navigation controls, which would otherwise be nothing short of stupid).