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Originally Posted by mgmueller
Build quality:
I won't open the Sony, so I can't really tell yet.
With Cybook Opus (I'll add a picture in a few hours), I'm a bit annoyed by the battery and its compartment. In BeBook for example I can use a standard NOKIA battery. In Cybook Opus, theoretically the battery is user-replaceable. But it's not a standard battery. The battery is soldered with 2 wires. Maybe because of the small size they had to rotate it by 90° and therefor needed to connect via those 2 wires. But to me it simply looks extremely fragile and 1 of the 2 wires already is a bit loose. I wish, I never would have seen that...
In general, Sony looks more "stylish", but I can't see the inside...
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A note on the Opus battery: it's the same battery that the CyBook Gen3, and all of the (numerous) Netronix EB600 clones use, so there are many alternate sources of supply, and no realistic danger of it becoming unobtainable. Personally, I think that the user-replaceable battery of the Opus is a real benefit over the Sony.