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Sony Touch PRS-600
Sony Reader Touch Edition PRS-600 is an updated version of its earlier PRS-505. PRS-600 is a touchscreen eBook reader with a classy appearance. It comes in bright red, grey and black colors.
Sony PRS-600 Design and Features
Sony PRS-600 is very elegant to look. We have the huge six inch screen in the front. The reader weighs 286g and its dimensions are 121x174.3x9.8mm. Since it uses the touchscreen technology, we do not have a seperate control pad.
Most of the important controls like back, next, homescreen, zoom and options are represented in symbol formats in the screen itself. Buttons found directly below this controls also could be used to control them.
At the rear side of the reader we have the DC input, USB port, 3.5mm headphone jack and the volume controls. On the top we have a LED power styler, two SD card expansion slots and a stylus.Battery lasts for nearly 7500 page turns.
Sony PRS-600 Screen
The typical 6-inch screen has 800 X 600 pixel resolution with 8 greyscale levels. The special Vizplex e-ink technolgy gives an exactly paper-like feel while we read the contents. The touchscreen technology works fine, but it is hard to navigate through menus and submenus for advanced options. One amazing feature of touchscreen is we can just turn the pages as we do it in a book.
Sony PRS-600 Storage
Sony Touch PRS-600 comes with 500 MB internal memory. We have two memory card slots. Memory could be extended up to 16 GB using the SD card slots. With extended memory we can store up to 13,000 eBooks in one single device.
Sony PRS-600 Support
Sony Touch PRS-600 supports a wide variety of eBook file formats like EPUB (industry standard), PDF, Text, RTF, Word and BBeB. Earlier versions of Sony eBook readers were not as versatile as this one. Now we can upload eBooks which support DRM as well as non DRM protected eBooks. The UK version of the device included 3G card also.
Sony PRS-600 Image and Music
Normal image formats like JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP (in black-and-white).are supported. MP3 and AAC audio file formats are supported. They can be used to hear songs and audio books.
Transferring Data with the Sony PRS-600
Data transfer process is the same as in earlier versions like PRS-505. If you purchase an eBook online from any store like WHSmith you should have the Adobe's Digital Edition software and the Adobe regsitration ID to use it.
If it is an eBook from your system, the reader or SD card can be plugged into your system and the data coud be transferred through usual drag and drop format. Since PRS-600 supports non DRM file formats, anything from internet like small sample pages might be downloaded and used straightaway.
Sony PRS-600 Perfomance
The touch screen interface works fairly well. But somtimes we feel the arrangement of icons and other text options are placed too close in the screen. We could not operate it with our fingertips easily. However the stylus comes in as useful additon. The options button also could be used to navigate easily through the menu.
The speed of the reader is amazing. Audio and image quality is good. Image rendering is quite good. Since the screen has 8 levels of greyscale even photos tranferred directly form digicams look abosolutely clear.
Next to display the other main highlight is its easy page turning abitlity. Though internal memory is less two expansion slots are present providing huge memory capacity and the battery life is also good. Perfomance wise this is a flawless eBook reader.
Sony PRS-600 Special Features
While we read an eBook we could highlight the phrase or paragrahp we like. It could be saved seperately. We can add our own thoughts as notes. The online QWERTY keyboard gives a way to do this.
These notes will be displayed when we come back to that page. These notes can be saved based on date and type. They can be transferred to the system also. Sony Touch PRS-600 can provide defenitions for the words on our request along with the annotations.
The Verdict
Sony Touch PRS-600 eBook reader is and amazing device. The only place it needs improvement is the quality of screen. It could be a little brighter to give a pleasant reading experience. Apart from that image rendering and other activities are abosolutely fine on the screen.
This is a very advanced eBook reader having all the features worth its cost. If you decide to buy a device with all the latest technology embedded in then go for Sony Touch PRS-600 without hesitation.
Cost: $300 (Estimated)
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