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A New Portable Revolutionary Wireless Reading Device – The Sony Digital Book Reader Daily Edition

Posted by admin on October 24th, 2009

So, we have had a couple of months now to take stock of the new Sony Digital Book Reader range. Though they have many positive electronic book reader reviews it does seem we are just waiting for the main star of the show to appear, their revolutionary wireless reading device, the Daily Edition.

It has to be said, the Amazon Kindle gets all the plaudits when it comes to wireless delivery, even though iRex have offered a similar device, albeit twice the price of the Kindle2 and considerably more than its true competitor, the Kindle DX.

So it was with a tinge of sadness that I greeted Sony’s announcement that the much heralded wireless addition to their Edition range, the Daily, would not be released until December, barely in time to catch the busy Christmas market. As I am not the Kindles biggest fan, I really do think they sold their customers well short when they released the Kindle2 back in February with only a minor face lift adding nothing tangible to the market, I do await with anticipation real competition to their domination in the wireless sector of the digital book reader market place.

Sony’s new wireless offering will retail at $399 and feature a larger 175mm eInk, Vizplex touch screen and wireless connectivity through the AT & T 3G network. As you are probably aware, this will allow users to instantly purchase and download newspapers, magazines, electronic books and other content from the Sony eBook Store. It’s worth mentioning here that in line with the recent price war between the two giants, Sony have reduced the price of new releases and best selling titles to below $10 mirroring Amazon’s prices.

One thing for sure is that the new Daily Edition will be better looking and probably easier to use, given past history.

I have maintained for some time now, the future for ebook reading devices has to be wireless and so for potential owners to future proof their purchase they need to buy wireless. This mantra will be tested in the coming months with a plethora of companies trying to grab a piece of the revolutionary wireless reading device action. Look out for a planned per Christmas release of a twin screen, hinged reader that will mimic the action of a traditional book, from As us.

Throw into the mix new readers from Plastic Logic/iRex iLiad in a Barns and Nobel ebook store partnership designed to compete with the big two (Kindle and Sony) in the electronic book stakes. And to top it all, expect an announcement from Apple as they are expected to enter the market in the not to distant future. This is even though Kindle ebooks are available for the i-Phone, could we see some kind of partnership between these two? With the potential size of the market, it’s best to discount nothing.

Expect the Electronic Book Reader Reviews sites to be busy in the coming months.

But back to what we can expect from the Daily Edition when it is released. We know that the Daily will have the same top notch design as it’s smaller siblings, the Reader and Touch. Sahara Rotman Epps, analyst at Forrester research, summed it up when she described the comparison to the Kindle as making the latter look like an oversized calculator adding that even with the Daily’s built in cover it matches the Kindle in weight but is smaller in size.

It will have a touch screen display and offer vertical orientation similar to a traditional newspaper. The thinking has always been that, to accommodate newspapers and magazines, the reader would have an oversized screen (think DX or iRex iLiad) but the Daily optimizes the availability of these media with it’s new screen design, removing the need to build a larger, ungainly body just to house a massive display. Around thirty to thirty five lines of text are displayed, on screen, in portrait mode.

This gives readers a similar reading experience to that of normal printed material. In addition, the Daily uses sixteen levels of grey scale giving a higher than normal contrast ratio, resulting in a crisper, clearer rendering of text.

In the memory department, the reader will arrive with enough memory capability to store over a thousand normal sized novels but also has the capability to extend this via the SD card slots. With this being a revolutionary wireless reading device, you can download on the move but you can also transfer books and documents via the supplied USB-2.

0 cable. As you can see, this new reader will get plenty of ink on the electronic book reader review sites in the near future and will give the Kindle a good run for it’s money in the battle to be known as THE Revolutionary Wireless Reading Device.