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Sony Reader Daily Edition: Share first impressions
December 24, 2009 | 7:29 am
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By David Rothman
Any TeleRead community members gotten the Sony Reader Daily Edition yet?
Sony is striving to get Daily Editions before Christmas to people who preordered them as of December 20.
We’d be keen on seeing a video—but if nothing else, how about a first-impressions write-up? Use the comments section of this post, and I’ll quote you or point to you from the main part of the TeleBlog. Put in a YouTube link if you have one.
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Got mine this evening. THe unit is beautiful. Display a little more sensitive to glare than I remember the Kindle being. Text is clear and sharp enough for my eyes.
I am able to buy books through the desktop software and transfer them to the device via USB however the wireless is not working for me. It loads the store and navigates well but it can’t download! It charges the card and the book appears as purchased on my account and I can go download on the desktop version and transfer it via USB but then what is the point of the wireless.
Have been with Sony support for 30 minutes going through setting up and authorizing the reader for the account. I tell the guy I am able to transfer via USB and he says great problem resolved. I tell the dude HELLO, are you aware that the model I just gave you PRS900 works wirelessly like the my Kindle used to do perfectly! Then he says he has to research it and I have just been escalated. So FOR ME wireless purchasing works with charging your frigging card but not sending the book to your device!! I will update later.
FOLLOW UP: Support fixed the issue by asking me to reset the device. Now books download wirelessly. Store layout feels a bit emptier than Amazon’s. I would like more ways to browse.
Initial wireless access if connection has been turned off or is in standby can take a while. But once connection is up it is speedy. Screen refresh is acceptable. Screen keyboard works better than I thought because you dont need it to refresh the input area in order to keep typing.
Compared to the Kindle the touchscreen is so much more natural to navigate the menu options and the books. Not having to toggle a stick to choose an option or a word is great. Flipping pages with a swipe works very well. To look up a word in the dictionary you double tap it with your finger.
Need to learn how to highlight and take notes. So far feels great.
Hello Teleread,
I just posted my initial review and video of the Daily Edition here . . .
http://www.the-ebook-reader.com/sony-prs-900.html
I’m working on more videos and reviews of the online store, newspaper subs, and PDFs as we speak. These should be up within a few days.
Nathan: Good job on the Daily Edition review. Any way of quantifying the amount by which Sony has increased the contrast? Last I knew, the ratio on the older screens was 7:1. Thanks. David