Comments on: Sony specs leak again – Mac support, no wireless

By: Alessandro

Alessandro — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:18:07 +0000

I will never understand the wifi issue.
I read on ebooks devices since ages (the last the Sony 505) and I always lived perfectly without it.
Admit it, we live surrounded by computers – every one of them with a ready USB access: if I need to buy a book do I really need to do it immediately as I think about it? Is it such a problem to step in the other room and connect with a PC? Come on…

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:21:27 +0000

I don’t really care about wifi, but I do hope that they can improve the fonts management – ie, user controlled embedding better – and the refresh rendering rate of the ePubs.

By: Bill McHale

Bill McHale — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:09:58 +0000

I know there are a lot of people who are disappointed by the lack of wifi in the Sony book readers, but frankly, I think price is probably a more important factor right now. In any case, after what Amazon did, do any of us really want Sony being able to have direct access to our readers?

Personally, I find the Mac support a bigger deal, and long past due. Had it been available last year, I might have owned a Sony now as opposed to a Jetbook.

By: Felix Torres

Felix Torres — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:02:20 +0000

Well, $199 and $299 are competitive prices for the listed features. But J&R is a discounter so those are likely not the List prices. But they’ll sell nicely.
Even better, they’ll put downward pressure on the stuff I *might* buy.