RealClear Summary
Posted On September 06, 2012
Sony's PRS-T2 e-book reader faces stiff competition - both from tablets and from rival e-book readers from Amazon and Barnes and Noble. This light weight reader (just six ounces) boasts a 6-inch touch screen, e-Ink display, Wi-Fi and a built-in stylus. The T2 is integrated with Facebook and Evernote, for social networking buffs, along with two English language and four foreign language translation dictionaries. If you shut off Wi-Fi, you can enjoy a whopping two months worth of battery life, Sony claims.
There's 2GB of onboard memory with a microSD card slot for adding more capacity. It retails for $129. If you buy the black model (and only black, for some reason), you'll also get a free coupon for "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone."
Reviewers weren't terribly enthusiastic about Sony's effort. While they really liked the Evernote feature, few though the PRS T2 could hold its own against the big boys in the category - Barnes and Noble's Nook and Amazon's Kindle.
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Sony has done some nice work to bring its Reader up to speed with the competition, and it's definitely worth considering. But when it comes to content, performance and ease of use,...
While the Sony Reader PRS-T2 makes it easy to add notes to books, overall this e-reader can't keep up with the competition.
There's nothing here that really blows us away, however, leaving the Reader feeling like little more than a gently tweaked version of the (admittedly good) last-gen model. It's...
Next to last year's Kindle and Nook, it might be a competitive third ebook reader option for $129. Unfortunately it's 2012, and Sony's Reader comes to market already behind.
If you are looking for a dedicated e-reader that allows you to browse and borrow free eBooks from the library, this is for you. There is simply no other e-reader on the market that...
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