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Originally Posted by luqmaninbmore
The French Books are: Le Rouge et le Noir and Les Trois mousquetaires. The display is amazing. I am able to read a PDF comic on it.
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thank you. and that's great to hear about the display !
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Originally Posted by Ankh
This is a wild guess, but Sony might, just might, have a big stock of 505's flashed with European firmware in its stores/distribution channels. Other than that, I can't see the reason for prs300 launch delay.
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Originally Posted by Crowl
It does make you wonder why they didn't cut prices a bit sooner to get stock moving and also generate some more buzz about ebooks.
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yes, this is a good point. in france at least, the 505 has been on sale at a reduced price (i think it was down to 220€) for some time now, several weeks, perhaps even a couple of months. so it's possible they are trying to clear out the stock they have on hand already. although i don't see why they couldn't release the 300 in addition ; i suspect there would be a market for both devices, since they are not quite the same, particularly if the price is different.
i have been thinking about this though and now i wonder whether the delay on release of the 600 is to prepare a french dictionary which is not available on the current models. this would make a lot of sense.
igorsk, if they do make a french model with a french dictionary, what are the chances that this dictionary could somehow be added to non-french 600s, preferably in addition to the english dictionaries ? with a firmware updater of some sort ?