Sony Electronic Ink E-book released

Finally, electronic ink is here. Sony has finally released an ebook that uses electronic ink technology... but it comes at a hefty price $350 to $400 and only displays black and white. They will eventually come out with color models though. This reader is smaller than the average paperback and only uses power when you flip the page. The internal rechargable battery lasts up to 7,500 page turns and this ebook also plays MP3's as an added bonus. It can also display PDF files and Jpeg files.

My Opinion: Personally, I'm very excited about this new technology but there are a few things that I wish this ebook could do. First, black and white is boring... we need color. And second, nobody thought of adding a back-light for reading in the dark... come on! Also, there's no option to browse the web...even if it's just in black and white. I'm sure they could add these features now if they wanted to, but Sony is probably milking it's profits from this basic model first, and adding some of these features to the next upgraded model. The $350 to $400 price tag is too much for just a basic black and white ebook reader. For that amount of cash, I could get a Psp(which can read text files and ebooks...among other things) or the New Sony Mylo(see next post). It probably won't catch on until the price point is around $150.

Still, if this catches on it can potentially save lots of trees and prevent a lot of needless waste.


For more info visit:
http://products.sel.sony.com/pa/prs/reader_features.html