Sony puts up Reader Daily Edition for pre-order @ $399

In the battle of the eBook reader giants, like Amazon with its Kindle and Barnes & Noble with their “Nook”, Sony is indicating that they are not out of the game yet, but putting up their 3G enabled Sony Reader Daily Edition for pre-order @ $399 from SonyStyle.com . The e-reader joins the other devices in the series, the Reader Pocket Edition and Reader Touch Edition and comes with a 7-inch touchscreen display.

The Reader Daily Edition is also capable of internet connectivity via AT&T’s 3G mobile broadband network for the users to browse, purchase and read books and magazines on the go. Some select newspapers will also be available on the reader. The wireless connectivity is available free of charge and you can also load content through USB. Sony will announce their magazine and newspaper content provider partners within the next month.

The device features a responsive touch-interface which makes it really easy to get around with the intuitive navigation, and enables easy note-taking and highlighting with the included stylus pen. You can also type on the on-screen virtual keyboard. The display is capable of showing around 30 – 35 lines of text at a time similar to a paperback book. Also included is an embedded Oxford American English Dictionary which enables you to look up a word by simply tagging it.

While Sony hasn’t specified how much memory the device has, they have said that it “has enough internal memory to hold more than one thousand standard eBooks and expansion slots for memory cards to hold even more”.  You can pre-order the device now for $399 from SonyStyle.com and get it when it ships next month.

Source : Sony via Engadget

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