When it comes to ebook readers probably the two most talked about are the Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader PRS-700, these two products are real trailblazers for the ebook market and are responsible for bringing the written word, into a easy electronic format but the question you are probably asking which is the best of the two?
Cost
However good any product is the price has to come into it for many people. To be fair their really is next to nothing between the two at present with the Kindle coming in at $359 and the Sony $399, though this makes the kindle the cheaper of the two by $40, in my opinion with such as small difference this probably should not be the deciding factor on which one you purchase.
How Much Do They Weigh?
Yet again these two products are really neck and neck, the Sony weighs about 10oz with the kindle a fraction more, the kindle is slightly thinner than the Sony however it is slightly longer than the Sony. It must be said neither product was of a size that would hamper easy transit.
Is the Display Good?
The first thing to know about both products is that they use e-ink technology, which gives you the same reader experience that you would get from reading from paper, this helps with potential eye strain and their is a much clearer display of images . In this particular area I really feel the Kindle has a big edge due to the fact that it uses 16 shades of gray, while at the moment Sony uses 8-level of gray scale
Wireless
Well there really is one winner here. if it is important to you to have wireless, then the Kindle is the better machine. You have access to over 240,00 titles from magazines and newspapers and of course book titles and all you have to do is choose, pay and you are on your way. Sadly the Sony as of writing does not have the wireless capability and even if it did it would still lack the sheer variety and choice of content that amazon provide for the Kindle.
Supported Formats
Both of these machines support most of the formats you would need such as BMP,MP3, JPEG,TXT, GIF and PNG however it is worth knowing that the kindle at present does not support PDF while the Sony does.
How Much Can Be Stored?
Well the Sony wins in a big way here it has a 256mb internal memory which is nothing compared to the Kindles whopping 1.4g, so why does the Sony have the upper hand? Well in the new version of the Kindle their is no support for external memory, were the sony supports up to 16G of external memory, this is a big plus, but it must be said that even with just the Kindles internal memory it can still hold up to1,500 books, for most people this would be more than enough storage.
So Which Ebook reader Is the Best?
Well its been very close throughout, however I have to say that the Kindle remains the better ebook reader. With the price and especially its wireless capability's. This make the Kindle a healthy winner over the Sony Reader PRS-700
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