Screen quality of Sony Reader Daily Edition isn’t quite up to snuff, says Smart Bitches

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By Paul Biba

SB Sarah went to the SonyStyle store and looked at the Sony Daily Edition and other models. She dislikes the screen quality:

So, my review in a nutshell: that touch screen is still not my friend. My biggest problem with the 700 and the Sony Touch is that the coating on the touch screen, while it is sexy to use, degrades the quality of the text such that I need better light in order to read on it. I was reading on the Sony Touch over the weekend (review to come) and found myself tilting the screen to move it out of the sun, toward the light fixture but not directly beneath the light bulb – it was ridiculous.

The same is true of the Daily Edition: I tilted it in the store away from the Reader booth light fixtures, but not so much that I caught the reflection of the mall behind me… that coating for the touch interaction is just monster poor.

Related: Review of the Sony PRS-900 reader, ala the Daily Edition, in The-eBook-Reader blog. Nathan  likes the screen more than Sarah does—says the contrast is better than earlier models’. “…the text doesn’t have that clouded grayish color. Even in lower lighting conditions I’ve found the text is more readable, especially on the medium and larger font settings.”

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