1. Product description:
+ The Reader (rather than pink red, I would say). Fingerprints do not noticeable in this color. With 161g definitely not the easiest Reader, which is still the Cybook Opus from bokeen with 142g.
+ USB Cable: A real surprise, hardly anyone makes today even bother accompanied by a USB cable (USB Micro-B / USB-A).
+ Stylus (for handwritten notes, I've not used)
+ Short instructions in 10 languages (DE, EN, F, D, NL ?, ES, IT, ...)
2. General information:
+ 15.2 cm large, crisp touchscreen eInk (with infrared technology that makes my experience more stress in summer when outdoor and body temperature are the same, because you have to then with a cool cloth hover)
+ Formats: EPUB, PDF and Text
+ Wi-Fi capable (I do not care, it will at some point try but). Wireless can easily be selected by clicking on the icon on and off.
+ 1.4 GB of internal memory
+ MicroSD cards, up to 32GB can be used
- / + Dictionaries: New Oxford American Dictionary, Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford-Hachette French Dcitionary (EN-FR / FR-EN), English German and German Collins English Dictionary, Oxford Spanish Dictionary (EN-ES / ES-EN) , Collins English-Italian / Italian-English Dictionary, Van Dale Pocketwoordenboeck Engels.Nederlands / Nederland Engels -> Yes, it's nice to see so many dictionaries are included, but unfortunately it has not bothered, the German version of the aufzuspielen Spanish, Italian or NL dictionaries. This is an outrage. Those who can not good English, can only really start with two of what. The Oxford Dictionary of English is very good, also contains many more exotic expressions Fantasy readers as I look up often times, as the Collins English-German and German-English Dictionary makes more times limp. Here, unfortunately, I do not have a Polish dictionary which I really needed and I do not know if you can nachistnallieren dictionaries.
+ Battery life: Depending on what you're doing. eInk consumes power when scrolling, if you travel a lot on the menu is thus more than reading. In addition, temperature-dependent because battery to discharge more quickly, especially in winter because of the cold. The battery indicator anyway, I would have liked ganeuer with percentage.
+ MP3 function (OK, who needs it)
3. Preinstalled Books:
Robin: Harry Holes third case
Dietary Fiber: Anger miller sixth case
Operating Instructions
4. Operation:
+ Touch functions (tap, hold, drag) incl. Timing modes (scroll zoom in and out by spreading / Merge) respond quickly and accurately, even with finger operation, the pin is not necessary.
+ Controls in Text: navigation, Notitzen, fonts (Original, Amasis, New Frutiger, Palatino nova, Really No 2, Unvers Next, Verdana)
+/- Memo: Important and works. If you call up his notes, however, and has more than one page of the reader always jumps to the first page of notes, and you have to scroll back to get to the later notes that annoying.
+ 8 font sizes (here you can also easily zoom)
+ View can be customized: Seitenodus (column width Panorama), side trimming, view set (Original, Saturated, Details, lighter, darker, adjust)
Handwritten notes can be inserted
+ Word search in the text
+ Orientation (portrait or landscape) on the menu, which makes the Sony Gottlob not automatically mean that made me mad when Bokeen, especially if the train is put straight again in a curve.
5. Scroll:
The leaves is by far the most important function of a reader. You can browse the Sony either the arrow keys or by wiping down functions. The reader reacts very quickly, but it blinks once black to remove the after-image before the new page is displayed.
7. USB charging:
+ Big plus, you can load and read, must the reader only when plugging the USB cable report by clicking store instead of data transfer.
8. Transfer of books via USB from PC
Device is immediately recognized by the computer. Very fast data transfer.
- You can create subdirectories, unfortunately, the system does not take these subdirectories, but invites all books regardless of their directories, so you should think about how many books one saves on the Reader. While you can search for authors and restrict, eventually it will but confusing. That was solved when Bookeen Cybook Opus better. The books can be sorted by date, title, author and file name here should therefore be provided with Calibre for a clean data collection. Authors and titles can be found and limited the search function.
9. Housing made of plastic in this case is an advantage as plastic temperatures worse passes than aluminum or other metals, increased especially in the winter, the battery life since battery entaden faster in cold conditions. In addition, plastic is lighter than a metal housing.
10. Made in China (unfortunately)
11. so far has come Bugs
- Crashes in which the book is just finished and you end up back in the menu. He does not remember where he had crashed, but only where it went into sleep mode the last time, as it is called browsing and searching.
- Verblättern: Suddenly you're in a completely different place, although it has only scrolled a page. If one looks then its old place again, is the other suddenly under a page number. If, then on, you scroll on the next page somewhere else. Since only one thing remains: return to the menu, select back into the book and page directly.
- Touchscreen unresponsive happened to me even in a normal 300 pages epub.
Conclusion: Still the best and fastest reader in the market but Sony has not really bothered the reader really adapt for Germany. The only concession, the German menu and a DE-EN / EN-DE Dictionary. The installed dictionaries to all but two EN as a basic language and currently it crashes after eienr while off quite often, if you do not from time to time quite off him, but always sends slumber, even in normal, small classic ePubs without DRM.
News (28.10.11) may still interesting information:
For large PDF files, it may happen that at some point no longer wants the touchpad and reacts only the hardware control.
Currently it seems in this Reader yet to be problems with ADE:
"The T1 does not work yet with Adobe Digital Editions and it does come with reader software used to Easily manage your device." - "To get Adobe Digital Editions to work on your Sony T1, you need to first install the new Reader App That is loaded on the device, install it to your PC To Get Your Sony Reader working on Calibre you have to download the new. beta build. "
Or
Install the Sony Reader software on the computer and then authorize the Reader for DRM.
Resetting to factory functions if you have made a mistake in any inputs or the reset button does not respond (seems very rarely occur) or if the battery discharges too quickly for some reason:
1 When the Reader is turned on, it should be shut down completely: (POWER) button 3sec press and question by pressing YES)
2 Press the (POWER) button. The reader starts.
3 During the loading bar is displayed, simultaneously press the two keys Page Down and Back and keep both buttons pressed
4 Once the home page is displayed (Caution: Wait until the word "Loading ..." at the top left is no longer flashing and disappears) release the button and press it back going again, while the other button (>) prophylls hold nnoch. Then let go of the button Back first and then the button (>) continue reading. (Caution: Do not let go at the same time)
5 Tap in the dialog box to YES. The hard reset is performed.
6 Turn on the unit again (POWER) and align it again (region, language, date)
The reader must have been taken already been in operation before pressing the hard reset.
The reader is reset by the hard reset to factory defaults. Therefore, please back up any previously already transferred to the Reader titles.
The commissioning of both gewählen settings (country / language) determine the choice of pre-installed titles and the language of the operating instructions
A first firmware update is now available from Sony, but that does not yet resolve all the bugs in the DRM Administration:
This software update Reader for PC (1.1.03.11040) shall concern:
The effective date of the content is now displayed correctly and synchronized with the Reader
The consumer can now manually select during installation the corresponding eBook store for his country
General improvements to increase the stability and performance
