It's definitely a hands-on review, though a rather negative one (i.e. with the focus on things that don't work so well).
Not paying enough attention to the iPod, for one thing. Compared with the elegance of that device, the Sony Reader, which I’ve been test-driving for the past month or so, is a pretty clunky piece of design. It’s small and lightweight — about the size and heft of a pocket notebook — and, in a quaint little nod to the antique technology, it comes housed in a leatherette cover that actually makes it look like a book. But once you flip open the cover, the controls to operate the thing are maddening.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/24/bo...gy&oref=slogin