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Ok, picked up the PRS-700, first impressions, screen has a lot of glare and low contrast. The sony product managers must be surrounded by "Yes-men" to have let this get through the user-testing phase of their product development.
And this product again reaffirms my experience and belief that sony can make some great looking and great "feeling" products, but is absolutely horrid at writing software. Seriously, I had to format the internal memory card right away, as windows vista constantly wanted to "fix" the file system and the Ebook Library or Windows Explorer wouldn't work with it. Several reboots and a few formats of the internal memory, and I am finally able to upload content.
Why does sony feel the need to write a different custom and ugly GUI for every single application they develop? The default windows GUI may not be "pretty", but at least it has the widgets to have My Documents, and Desktop handy. Now I get the joy of manually browsing to C:\Users\UserName\My Documents everytime I want to upload a book simply because Sony felt the need to write their own UI library. They did the same thing with the minidisc. Sony potentially had a winning format: smaller than CD's, writeable like CDs with their own scratch proof protection, win+win+win. Then they decided to only make it usable through a GUI that was written by a 15 year old programmer with autism in Visual Basic so everyone absolutely hated the experience of using minidiscs on their PCs. Same feeling I have with their ebook software on windows. Anyhoo, enough of a rant. I think I will get used to the low contrast, and mathematics do indeed appear to display well,
reso
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