Sony Reader PRS-700 with touchscreen announced
Sony adds to its Portable Reader System line of electronic book readers featuring e-ink technology.
Sony has announced the Sony Reader PRS-700, a new touchscreen-capable addition to their Portable Reader System line of electronic book readers featuring e-ink technology. Joining the Sony Reader PRS-505, the new PRS-700 is about the size of a paperback book and weighs around 10 ounces. For about $100 more than the PRS-505, the PRS-700 features a light for reading in the dark, allows readers to take notes with an on-screen QWERTY keyboard, and allows readers to flip through virtual pages with either their fingers or a stylus that also allows for highlighting text. This new model should be available next month for about $400.
[Via Gizmodo]
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Brian Alvey
(9:21 AM on Fri Oct 3, 2008)
Touchscreen is a great addition. Where's color? If you're publishing graphical pages like comics the readers today aren't that great. For text, they're better every minute.
feef (8:39 AM on Wed Nov 26, 2008)
e-ink technology fundamentally does not support colour. We're not talking LCD screens here....
Brian Alvey
(9:20 AM on Wed Nov 26, 2008)
A boy can dream, though. ;-)
C.K. Sample III
(9:24 AM on Wed Nov 26, 2008)
Actually, there are color e-ink displays in the works, just not quite available yet:
http://www.obsessable.com/news/2008/11/18/funai-dye-based...
Brian Alvey
(9:26 AM on Wed Nov 26, 2008)
Cool. I saw the CrunchGear reviews, but like you said they have to be slower to refresh than grayscale. Some day...
C.K. Sample III
(10:05 AM on Fri Oct 3, 2008)
The Fujitsu Flepia is the only color model I've seen and based on the video of it over at CrunchGear the screen redraw times are unbearably slow:
http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/10/03/ceatec-2008-fujitsu-...
JC (1:42 PM on Sat Oct 4, 2008)
No MAC support again! Advantage Kindle 2!
C.K. Sample III
(11:35 AM on Sun Oct 5, 2008)
JC, if you're buying ebooks from Sony Connect store you need a Windows box or a Windows installation in Parallels/VMWare, but otherwise, you can add files easily on a Mac via the SD / Memory Stick card. Kindle doesn't exactly support Mac. It just has a standalone store of its own.