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Originally Posted by mikecook
I wonder how long it will take for the Daily Edition to come over to Europe; will Sony have the same issues that Amazon have had in getting wireless connectivity arranged?
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Sony will avoid some issues that have slowed down amazon, the wireless on the daily edition is umts and the changes between two countries using different frequencies for 3g are vastly simpler to overcome than going from cdma to umts as amazon would need to.
Also, with sony only allowing access to the book store that should reduce the complexity of dealing with the various networks.
The biggest drawback that sony will have to deal with for european users will be the lack of a single bookstore for the device to access, with the way that they have multiple partners for selling books in europe its going to take a lot more effort for them to get that side of things working.
It's a great shame that they don't seem to have done any work to improve integration with their european content partners with the library software still just launching a browser to take you to whatever random bookseller is their chosen one in that country.