From their press-release:
Svelte and stylish, the newest Reader still sports the dimensions of a slimmed down paperback book. The textured black casing and soft black cover contribute to its envy-inspiring design. And, at about 10 ounces, it’s the perfect way to carry all of your favorite books with you wherever you go.
A sizeable six-inch display with touch screen capability allows booklovers to flip pages with the slide of a finger. In addition, readers can easily search terms within a document or book, create notes using the virtual keyboard and highlight text with the included stylus pen.
Five pre-set text sizes are available so readers can find the one most comfortable for them and for those who need an even closer look, zooming in is as easy as tapping the screen.
The device still features high-resolution, high contrast electronic paper display technology which provides a reading experience very much akin to ink-on-paper. The result is crisp text and graphics that are highly readable, even in bright sunlight. For times when ambient light is not available, Sony is the first to offer a built-in LED reading light.
Expanded memory offers enough capacity to store about 350 average digital books. Using optional removable Memory Stick Duo media or SD memory cards, this Reader can hold literally thousands of books and documents.
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3 comments:
The touchscreen is a good thing - and really necessary. We miss this function in our Ebookreader which we test for our blog.
I've had my PRS-500 for a couple of years now and it's a great little reading device, with it being more ergonomic and functional than the Kindle (not to mention the aesthetics...). I have over a 100 books on it, and the Sony bookstore is as good as Amazon's (in spite of the inflated numbers Amazon gives for its Kindle store). With discounts and other incentives I got my Reader for a little over $200, which is a good price point for such a reader. Pricing the PRS-700 at $400 will be its biggest negative, and it's a significant one in Sony succeeding with developing its e-book market. Too bad, because the e-book concept has great potential. Imagine where Apple would be today if it had priced iTunes songs at $1.99 a song, and its iPod were still $400 (the price when it first came out)!! If Sony had been able to keep the price under $300 for its new Reader, and then to introduce it with a glitzy Apple-style marketing campaign (the new improved ?Ultra? Reader!), then Sony may have succeeded it achieving its breakthrough in the e-book market. Under the current economic circumstances, I'm afraid the PRS-700 will be dead on arrival, with only a handful of dedicated e-book consumers willing to spend that much for a couple of new features.
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I played with the Sony Ebook reader with the touch screen at a local store but unfortunately it was a limited function demo so I couldn't do much with it.
You are supposed to be able to read it out of doors with the E-ink technology.
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