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cartman · 05-22-2009, 07:36 AM

Hello all,
I just got my new blue 505 reader, and after a few hours of playing with it i can report that it is absolutely awesome! The screen is something that makes most jaws drop, and i already have 2 friends that want to buy one too.

As i am from Greece i was worried about Greek support, but i am happy to report that greek texts display and reflow ok. With the default fonts Greek titles display problematically, as the letters that have an accent do not show correctly. Unfortunately this is not corrected by flashing the device with unicode fonts, instead Greek gets completely unreadable, so i had to reflash back to the original fonts.

I think that if Sony could make the 505 with a higher res (1024x768) 7" screen but without making the external dimensions larger (by omitting the numerical keys), the device would be perfect, as most A4 pdfs would display just ok without any cropping etc.

Other than that, i would like to say that i am a satisfied 505 owner, and of course very happy to join this incredible community

05-22-2009, 07:36 AM	#1
cartman Connoisseur Posts: 57 Karma: 22 Join Date: May 2009 Location: Mytilene, Greece Device: Kobo Aura HD, Sony PRS-505 (Blue)	Just got my new blue PRS-505 :D Hello all, I just got my new blue 505 reader, and after a few hours of playing with it i can report that it is absolutely awesome! The screen is something that makes most jaws drop, and i already have 2 friends that want to buy one too. As i am from Greece i was worried about Greek support, but i am happy to report that greek texts display and reflow ok. With the default fonts Greek titles display problematically, as the letters that have an accent do not show correctly. Unfortunately this is not corrected by flashing the device with unicode fonts, instead Greek gets completely unreadable, so i had to reflash back to the original fonts. I think that if Sony could make the 505 with a higher res (1024x768) 7" screen but without making the external dimensions larger (by omitting the numerical keys), the device would be perfect, as most A4 pdfs would display just ok without any cropping etc. Other than that, i would like to say that i am a satisfied 505 owner, and of course very happy to join this incredible community Last edited by cartman; 05-22-2009 at 07:54 AM.