Sony PRS-950

Sony PRS-950

The Sony PRS-950 is an e-book reader designed with responsive touch screens, compatibility with applications for iPhone and the Android Marketplace to extend the Reader experience across multiple portable devices; wireless connectivity, reduced size and weight. It is available in silver and retails for about $299.

Features

The Sony PRS-950 features full touch screen technology designed for digital reading and increases reading clarity. It also features wireless connection to Sony’s Reader Store from most of the U.S. via AT&T’s 3G network; Wi-Fi and basic Web browsing capability; E Ink® Pearl electronic paper displays, which delivers a paper-like display that is readable in direct sunlight. The screen also features a high contrast ratio with 16 levels of grayscale that optimizes text and images for reading. Other features on the Sony PRS-950 include a 7 inch touch screen, on board 2 GB memory which lets users carry up to 1,200 favorite books, dual expansion slots for up to 32GB of additional memory; the ability to play MP3 and AAC audio files; compatibility with PDF or personal documents; intuitive content zoom, adjustable contrast and brightness control, as well as automatic multiple page creation that lets documents designed for a standard sheet of paper easier to read on a smaller screen. The device also allows users to personalize their standby screen options with favorite photos as a screen saver and the collections functionality to group their favorite reads. Other features on the Sony PRS-950 include giving users the ability to look up words and phrases with the built in New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition and Oxford Dictionary of English eDictionaries, as well as 10 translation dictionaries in languages such as French, German, Spanish, Italian and Dutch; create “word logs” to track the words they’ve looked up per dictionary, book or periodical in chronological order, while switching between dictionaries; access to more than 1.2 million titles are available in the U.S, The Harvard Business Review, The Wilson Quarterly and Dell Magazines’ highly regarded fiction magazines: Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and Analog Science Fiction and Fact.