During the day yesterday, the news of the launch of the Sony Digital Notebook or DPT-S1, his real name. This eReader will be the first to have a 13,3 ″ screen or what is the same, the size of a folio. According to the latest news we had, Sony was testing the DPT-S1 at various Japanese universities to see how it worked in the student world.. It seems that the results are being so good that at the end of the year, facing the Christmas campaign the SonyDPT-S1 will go on sale for the «low»Price of 754 euros.
Although it finally seems that the main and only purpose of this eReader or digital notebook will be the business world, since its capabilities are going to be quite limited in relation to its price. On the other hand, this price is not a student price, but rather approximates thicker pockets.
Final features of the DPT-S1
Surprisingly the DPT-S1 can only read PDF files, perhaps the most surprising, since you will not read or Epub, much less Epub3 like his brothers do. Regarding the processor and memory, the official documentation of Sony does not say anything although according to this documentation, the ideal is that the SonyDPT-S1 It works for a server so both the processor and the ram memory would be elements not to take much into account. The screen is 13,3 ″ with a resolution of 1.200 × 1.600, is tactile and has a 16 gray scale. Its storage is 4Gb although the user can use only 2.8 Gb although it has a microslot of up to 32 GB, with which we can really have up to approximately 35 Gb. It has a powerful Wi-Fi connection that will still not reduce the autonomy of the device, which will be approximately two weeks with moderate use of Wi-Fi and three weeks without the use of Wi-Fi.
Another important feature of the DPT-S1 is its weight, 358 gr., a weight that really gives it the nickname of «Digital Notebook«. Remember that currently, the Kindle DX which is the eReader with the largest screen, 9,7 ″, weighs 536 grams. and the last two Ipad models are between 438 gr. and the 600 gr. all having a smaller screen.
El DPT-S1 It comes with a power adapter for charging and a stylus, a useful tool that will allow writing and annotating documents. In addition to fixed the characteristics, the price of this device has also been fixed. Unfortunately it is not available to everyone, rather a few, approximately 754 euros. A price that definitely takes you away from the student world and the general public, since for that price, both schools, universities or people in general will buy the latest model of the Ipad and still have money left over.
From what I can see from the technical information, the DPT-S1 It is designed to work in a group as a team, where one person would be using a server and the rest of the people would work on the documents with it. DPT-S1 and your stylus, being able to see and share your work with other devices. Come on, really what it does is the classic silly Server-Client system that is currently also found in the university world. Despite everything, it has been disappointing that Sony has put such a high price on this promising device. On the other hand, the sole use of Pdf removes the desire for any purchase option since many do not use pdf as a standard format, the use of html or doc port, not to mention the Epub format, would have significantly improved the interest in it. DPT-S1. I do not know what it will look like to you but I have found this launch frustrating and disappointing and I hope that Sony thinks about its price and its software or else I imagine that the DPT-S1 Sony will be eaten with potatoes in Europe, Do not you think?
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The device is nice but, as you say, disappointing in terms of supported formats and the very high price. Sony is wrong (once again). Wouldn't it be better to make it compatible with other formats and at a more affordable price (€ 500 at a high price)? I do not understand that they make a product for so few being able to do it for everyone ... they will know.
I'm with you Javi, the most unfortunate of all is that by using the policy of Amazon or other companies, that is, selling it cheap, you reach a point where you make money, and with this model Sony had it insured. Too bad about it, but I am counting on them to realize it and lower the price, not in vain I think they did something similar with the PSP.
What an obsession with the price, I have not seen a more grimy group than that of electronic readers. There is a thing called economies of scale that talks about the cost advantages that a company gets from expansion.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Econom%C3%ADa_de_escala
If there is something to be attributed to E-ink, it is not its prices, which at the beginning have to be high; It is their obsession not to expand the market from electronic ink to tablets, laptops and monitors, and to insist on continuing to specialize in micro screens for electronic readers.
This product in particular finally brings a decent screen, if something is to be blamed it is its functional limitation, not its price.
I personally own a 1000 inch Irex DR10S for many years. The information I get from the internet, I pass it to PDF and I take it to the reader to read it. If this device allows me to search for information and read directly from the internet, it is profitable for me to buy it; but if I have to do the same as before, for that I choose my DR1000.
regards
I don't know what purchasing power you will have, Galib, but that kind of economy at the moment and in a country like Spain is not going to work, no matter how much economy of scale you put in (which, in addition, serves for the long term and we all know that the The object that they put on the market is not by far the definitive one, that is, they will improve it in two months, and so on). Moreover, a company like Sony could easily lower, not the cost of production, if not the market price, since these things are manufactured massively and not from time to time, increasing production or reducing it according to sales (or that this occurs after manufacturing a good number of, in this case, electronic notebooks).
In any case, I do not see a future for this product for various reasons. The first is the price (rich friend) and the second is due to its low functionality compared to other electronic notebooks that have not yet hit the market and we hope they do not remain on wet paper (like NoteSlate, for example).
Frankly, finally creating such an exciting device, with a screen as God intended that invites so much to read and enjoy graphics, illustrations ... etc, and with such a light weight so that it can only read pdfs seems like a bad joke. taste. It's like creating a car with all kinds of details and then saying that it goes on pedals ... when is April Fool's Day in Japan? I do not get it. And what angers me the most is that the limitation, that of being able to read only pdfs, is a totally free limitation, it is not that it is complicated to make it read epubs or other formats, no, it is that they have not been put in the tip of the nose ... Argggh, I go shouting to the mountain, heading east.