“You can tell that the new PRS-505 is from Sony because 1) it’s
a gorgeous piece of kit in a tiny package, 2) it has a Memory Stick
Pro Duo expansion slot, and 3) it uses proprietary DRM. But the
last two points, so unfortunately characteristic of Sony in the
last decade, suggest that the company is changing-slowly. Not only
does the new Reader sport an SD card slot alongside the Pro Duo
slot, but it plays AAC and MP3 files; ATRAC doesn’t even make an
appearance on the spec sheet. Oh, and did I mention that the Reader
is Penguin-powered…?”
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