Thread: New Sony model to be called PRS-300 and PRS-600
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Old 07-30-2009, 01:56 PM   #88
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Originally Posted by igorsk View Post
Another thing I found... it seems the PRS-300 uses the older CPU (Dragonball MX1) that was used in PRS-500 and not the MXL of 505... are they trying to cut costs by using old stock of processors that they piled up?
Wow, you're right! That's pretty bad, using a 5 year old microprocessor, not recommended for new designs, in a "brand new" device. Well, perhaps they are using one of the newer Freescale modifications of MX-1...

Sounds like they are trying to come up with a super basic ebook reader (maybe only LRF/X and EPUB support, no PDF). Something real cheap so they don't even need to sell content to make money.

I don't know how they are planning to compete with Netronix and Jinke with their armies of clones in that space.
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