Toll, but thrown too early on the market

Bad:
At the very first time on the PC, the program called for the firmware update. Thanks! Supply in the only test models? 5 days later connected to the PC and immediately turn to the next firmware update will be prompted. Each time 107 MB download, and half an hour of work. The much advertised by Sony Sony shop that is set to revolutionize the shopping ebooks yes and become independent of the booksellers, does not work and will probably not go online this year.

Sony installs a program on the PC to manage the eBook reader. This Sony-management program crashes with me from almost every time I connect the Reader to the PC. With Calibre (freeware) he works against it properly.

The included user manual is flawed and far too short eigenlich only a short-flyers, but no real manual. Here it is learning by doing.

The housing acts like cheap plastic and it is probably also. Scratches are inevitable here.

Good:
The PRS-T1 runs with me now in the 3rd firmware version really quite excellent. The battery lasts an incredibly long time, wifi works without problems. The paging is very fast. The display quite excellent, provided you have also sufficient external light on the reader. The ability as a MP3 Player is a great thing and very comfortable. In the images display of JPEG & co. I could do without, to the black and white display is only very limited use. In principle, it works fine. The touch screen features run very smoothly and to be fun. There are numerous formats processed, but it is not Kindle format. The built-in browser allows Wifi with a very fast Internet browsing, but is limited more or less on Google, Wikipedia or similar text pages without Flash or images larger quantities by the B / W display. More Internet makes these lazy b / w eBook readers displays without backlight simply makes no sense. The very simple functions to change the display and settings via finger pull work well. The store is large and can be expanded via SD card with up to 32GB gigantic. That would be about the rule of thumb up to 40,000 books. As a USB device, the reader is detected quickly and when one has read times in the administrative structure of the memory, you can see the books and even directly einkopieren easy. Because Sony uses a USB interface, the connection is also without the cable supplied by Sony not a problem because those USB cables lying around everywhere.

The PRS-T1 touch screen is currently certainly a best eBook readers on offer. But he was apparently thrown into the software premature and immature on the market in order not to miss the Christmas shopping season. There are also especially annoying for early customers, the continuous price cuts almost within days. In America, the PRS-T1 crashed within a short time of $ 149 now a whopping $ 89. Such price falls as a buyer in the bazaar one feels drawn only on the table, waiting the next time rather have a month longer before getting an expensive product buys, which only "ripe at the customer" for the banana principle must and then only still half cost.