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Originally Posted by hansl
Well, Sony for sure is well aware that they did sell a lot of PRS-500s to outside the US.
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I'm afraid you are mistaken.
Sony never sold a single PRS500 outside the U.S. All the extra-U.S. 500s were sold by third parties, either individuals, or retailers. I'm given to understand that Sony is a bit perturbed with those retailers for their international sales, actually. You are correct in that Sony knows that there are a lot of 500s outside the U.S. (they couldn't help but be, since the follow MR!), but as I said earlier, they were bought outside official channels. The distribution agreements I mentioned above mean that they
can't recognize those units in any case: they're disavowed.
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Originally Posted by hansl
Not to speak of the 10000 pages fairy tale or the undocumented stand-by mode which cannot be turned off.
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It was 7,500 pages, and they probably
did manage that under a specific, unlikely set of circumstances -- it's Marketing.
Sure, it's annoying, and borderline deception, but it's also not any secret. If you plan to avoid every company that uses it, you're not going to be buying very much at all.
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Originally Posted by hansl
BTW any green soul around here who cares about the extra electronic waste?
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Heh, somehow I find I'm not too bothered by electrical waste that causes a dinky 1,800 mAh battery to take more than
three weeks to run down. I have 2,500 mAh AA rechargeables that run down in less time than that just sitting on a shelf!
You have to decide what's best for you to do with early adoption. It's always a bit painful on the 'Bleeding Edge' and if you don't want to ride it, no one would blame you for it in the slightest.