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Originally Posted by richman
I guess with the 505 sony did make it TOO GOOD and has found it hard to make a better model. The same thing happen to canon with High Def camcorders, it made the HV20 TOO GOOD and there are improvements in other ones but it TOO is considered excellent. Not a perfect analogy but shows how KEEPING it SIMPLE is sometimes MORE than adding other features that SCREW UP the BASIC BEAUTY of a functional device that WORKS.
As new eink tech level improves and we move to color screens then these ereaders will use different SCREEN technology and there will be improvement, but at this point they all are using the same tech to make and each company is adding their FEATURES to the mix. Sometimes with success and sometimes not.
Sony should have come up with the 505 super model that FIXES any problems users said would improve it. Faster processor , replaceable battery, and other things we talk about on this forum.
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I see what you did there.
The PRS-600 definitely has issues, and Sony seems to occasionally have issues where they decide that the latest fad is the new killer app (which is how we ended up with touch-controls on the PRS-700 to begin with), but at the same time I disagree that the PRS-600 isn't beautiful. As I've already noted, the PRS-300's interface is excellent with the single-disc control which makes it look less like a wanna-be analog controller on an ebook reader and more like a piece of functionally beautiful technology, which they sabotaged by removing the SD and MS slots.
But, as I pointed out earlier, if they'd kept most of the PRS-505's features on the PRS-300, they'd probably have killed the sales for their 'premium' machine of the moment, which is probably why they intentionally crippled it.. sorta like how Apple decided to limit the software that could be installed from the App Store on iPod Touch devices, which resulted in deployment issues where some games which were able to run on the Touch were barred from being installed on it due to the DRM restricting the devices the programs could run on, even though they functionally are identical where the OS and graphics are concerned.
bsg75: And as I noted, JSwolf1 sounds rather much like an apologist when he's refuting some of the legitimate complaints about the PRS-600. Glare is definitely there, if not to the same degree on the previous PRS-700 which was almost unreadable even inside the store, where they intentionally tried not to have lights shining down on the readers. Whether it's enough to kill any possibility of reading, or if it'll degrade clarity to the point of unusability is going to matter more with the conditions one's reading in, as well as one's personal preferences there. Maybe I'm spoiled after years of reading PDA screens and then a short bit on an iPod Touch.