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Sony Reader T1 Hacked
Nate the greatest writes "It's been just over a month since the T1 launched and only a couple weeks since it shipped — and it has already been hacked. A video has surfaced that shows the T1 running a number of apps, including a new home screen, AW Launcher, and a couple of different reading apps. It can't run Angry Birds just yet, but this is still great news. There aren't any details yet on when you'll be able to hack your T1, but I bet they'll be filtering out fairly soon."
It's actually an e-reader. The Sony tablets are called Tablet S and Tablet P.
Maybe if the tablets were half the price of the iPad
Are you trolling? These tablets are priced at €150, while an iPad starts at €499. Why would you want them to be more expensive? And they have an e-ink screen.
It's an e-ink reader; it's supposed to be greyscale. While colour e-ink screens are now available, they're still *very* new technology, and not yet present in any currently shipping devices that I'm aware of.
Forget world peace, bring on -1 pointless
e-books fills a niche that tablets are ill suited to.
As for hating on Sony; it is true, they are easy to hate at times, but Sony divisions are essentially separate companies in a lot of ways. Their e-books are nothing like the rest of Sony. While they do have their own proprietary book format, their readers are also among the ones with the broadest format support. The only "popular" format they don't support is MobiPocket, used by the Kindle.
Imho, Sony's Readers are pretty much everything we loved about Sony, before they became a media company. Good quality, easy to use, and built for the users.
Regarding TFA, it was "rooted" "old, non-android way", used to flash custom firmwares for earlier models.
Up to T1 model, Sony (well not exactly Sony, Kinoma) was using proprietary engine. (that also ran on other platforms, including Windows) They've sw
Offtopic:
x50 line of Sony Readers is actually superior to both Nook and Kindle and has quite a number of followers, also in US.
Product having little market share has more to do with marketing, than actual quality. (I find sony walkman (yep, they also do mp3 player, imagine that) vastly superior to apple/samsung's offerings.)
Hackers add end-user value to product (by making it more flexible and/or versatile).
Next up: manufacturer works hard to reduce product's end-user value to what it was before.
actually, the competition *is* much better.
ebooks are cheaper on the whole for the Kobo, and the Kobo has a *much* larger library of ebooks available, including a very large selection of free ebooks, thanks to integration of their marketplace with Project Gutenberg and Smashbooks. Kobo also has the largest selection of international books in the bookstore of any of the manufacturers, which makes them a much better option for anybody living outside of the US, or who wants to read books in non-English languages. The hardware is very good quality, the screen is better than Sony is using (I've used both), and the battery lasts just as long. They also have a colour e-ink version coming out in the near future (already taking pre-orders) which means that they're likely to be first to market with colour e-ink ebook readers. They're also a lot easier to load ebooks from other sources to than the Sony, as it mounts as a USB drive when you plug it in to your computer... copy the ebooks to the device, turn it on, and your books are right there.
And that's just one of the competition that's better than Sony. There's others that I'd pick over the Sony in a heartbeat... the Amazon Kindle is a great ebook reader (their disabling 3G web access aside), the B&N ebook reader is super-easy to hack into an Android-based tablet, etc. The Sony is actually the worst of the bunch, based on the ebook readers that I've used, and giving mine away and replacing it with the Kobo Touch was a no-brainer.
I agree. I started from nook classic to kobo, then SONY Reader prs-350, and the last one wins in every category (battery, page flip speed, build quality, etc).
Sony Reader + Calibre combo is the "free" version of closed Kindle and the likes.
I'm sorry, but saying "SONY Got Hacked" is like saying "Microsoft Did a Business Deal". What did you expect out of your day?