PRS-700 First Hands-On!!!

[Dave Berk]

Originally Posted by KDawg

Does the PRS-700 have a metal case like previous Sony Readers? Just my own personal gadget fetish.

Yep. Such does seem to be the case.

[ronnn]

Originally Posted by Dave Berk

Yep. Such does seem to be the case.

Are you sure ?
In this thread , it's said it's made of plastic

R.

[Dave Berk]

Originally Posted by ronnn

Are you sure ?
In this thread , it's said it's made of plastic

R.

Positively . Only the casing is made of plastic. In the words of Google Translate: "Corps device is made of dark-sulfur plastic ends on - a metal alloy."

[Slite]

Originally Posted by Dave Berk

Positively . Only the casing is made of plastic. In the words of Google Translate: "Corps device is made of dark-sulfur plastic ends on - a metal alloy."

You just have to love Google Translations....

[Dave Berk]

Originally Posted by Slite

You just have to love Google Translations....

[DixieGal]

Oh for cryin' out loud, what a crock. Dale? Nick? Is it just me, or have they re-invented the EB-1150? Lighted touch screen, left or right handed, bookmarks, dictionary, keyboard. Learn to convert PRC to IMP, and save yourself a lot of money by getting the EB-1150.

Sorry to be so cranky sounding.

[Dave Berk]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

Oh for cryin' out loud, what a crock. Dale? Nick? Is it just me, or have they re-invented the EB-1150? Lighted touch screen, left or right handed, bookmarks, dictionary, keyboard. Learn to convert PRC to IMP, and save yourself a lot of money by getting the EB-1150.

Sorry to be so cranky sounding.

Reinvention is not always a bad thing. In many ways, the EB-1150 was before his time. For example ,it has better ergonomics that all the other readers. So Sony took the concept, added eink, and put it in a smaller, stylish package. What's wrong with it?

Oh, and there's no dictionary support yet. Here's to hope.

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by Dave Berk

Positively . Only the casing is made of plastic. In the words of Google Translate: "Corps device is made of dark-sulfur plastic ends on - a metal alloy."

Yahoo Babel fish says: The housing of device is made from the dark- sulfuric plastic, on the ends - metallic alloy.

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate...rUrl=Translate

Dale

[Dave Berk]

Originally Posted by DaleDe

Yahoo Babel fish says: The housing of device is made from the dark- sulfuric plastic, on the ends - metallic alloy.

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate...rUrl=Translate

Dale

Interesting how a slightly different translation will change the meaning completely.

[Xenophon]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

Oh for cryin' out loud, what a crock. Dale? Nick? Is it just me, or have they re-invented the EB-1150? Lighted touch screen, left or right handed, bookmarks, dictionary, keyboard. Learn to convert PRC to IMP, and save yourself a lot of money by getting the EB-1150.

Sorry to be so cranky sounding.

If they got the ergonomics done as well as the REB1100/EB-1150, that'll be a fantastic thing! Every reader since then has been several steps inferior on that front. Add in an eInk screen and improvements in page-turn time, and it might (might, I say) be the reader I've been wanting since I upgraded from the REB1100 to my current Sony PRS-500.

I'm still waiting to hear about library organization, and exact details on the improvements they (may have) made.

Xenophon

P.S. The screen quality of the PRS-500 trumped the ergonomic advantage of the REB1100 (for me), but I've been dreaming of a reader that had both for some time now...

[porkupan]

Originally Posted by Dave Berk

Positively . Only the casing is made of plastic. In the words of Google Translate: "Corps device is made of dark-sulfur plastic ends on - a metal alloy."

Ok, I'll translate for you, Russian being my native language. First, the guy who wrote this has made a typo, and wrote "темно-серного" (dark-sulfur) instead of "темно-серого" (dark-gray). He did mean the body housing, not the "casing" or cover or whatever.

When pressed on the "plastic" issue at the Russian eBook forum, the guy ("berboris") conceded that he actually wasn't sure what the housing was made of. He said "it felt like plastic", and the ends "felt like metal". Chances are it's the other way around. If you want to get a definitive answer, you should ask other people who got to handle the device, as this information is virtually worthless.

The web page also shows pictures with Russian text on the Reader. That's Russian PDF with built-in fonts, which the Sony Readers were able to display from the very beginning of PRS-500. The new Reader (PRS-700) doesn't appear to have full Unicode support, just as its predecessors. It has the same set of Bitstream fonts as PRS-505 and PRS-500.

[ronnn]

Thanks porkupan!

[ProDigit]

I'm not so for all touchscreen use.
The screen gets dirty quickly,gets scratched and matte over time.
Also,I wonder how long the battery lasts with all those leds.
Blue leds are probably the best; closest to blacklight you can get.
White leds are good too.
Red or green leds used on other devices are way less effective. they consume more battery for what they emit than white or blue.

Blacklight is probably something I want to see, with the reflective white page (provided if it will be gentle on the eyes).

So battery life with the leds would be nice!
However, the leds don't make it seem like a new technology, but rather make it look like it's a PDA.

[ProDigit]

Youtube introduction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5dpLiMAOv4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W32iFBbaA1A

[NatCh]

Originally Posted by ProDigit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5dpLiMAOv4

I dunno what they're smoking here, but at ~50 seconds in it flashes several things up on the video that are just bogus

• 20MB internal memory
• Internet Enabled
• 800 MHz Intel Celeron class processor

Then at about 1:13, he makes the comment that the books from the store are "accessible directly from the Reader."

Good footage of it in action, but their info is way off.