Sony Reader Daily Edition starts shipping, gets more newspapers

Sony hedged its bets a bit in committing to ship date for its Reader Daily Edition when it first announced it, but it looks like it's managed to get the first ones out the door on the early end of its December 18th to January 8th estimate, with the initial batch of pre-orders shipping today. Unfortunately, anyone that didn't pre-order the e-reader is out of luck for the time being, as it's now back-ordered with a new estimated ship date of January 15th. In related news, Sony has also announced that it's signed up an additional 16 publications that will be offering wirelessly-delivered subscriptions on the Daily Edition, including The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Baltimore Sun, and The Denver Post. None of those are exclusive to Sony, however, unlike the News Corp-owned publications that were announced last week.

[Dking7 Posted Dec 22nd 2009 2:52AM]

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[pika2000 Posted Dec 22nd 2009 3:11AM]

The $400 price tag is really hard to swallow. I wish Sony included the wireless radio on the Touch edition too. That will put a better fight against the Kindle.

[egress63 Posted Dec 22nd 2009 3:34AM]

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[(Unverified) Posted Dec 22nd 2009 3:44AM]

Дорогой сука;))))

[NeoXY Posted Dec 22nd 2009 5:02AM]

So...

Have they fixed the contrast issue they seem to have with their touchscreen readers? Or is the text on screen still faint?

[YtR Posted Dec 24th 2009 10:00AM]

@NeoXY
I haven't seen it in person yet, but the daily edition has 16 level grayscale whereas the touch has only 8, so I imagine there will be some difference.

[ReaderGuy Posted Dec 22nd 2009 7:30PM]

Reflective screens loose contrast with touchscreens, this is why eink is defective technology, it also looses the contrast over time, my Kindle 1 reader is less white (really weird greenish colour) and the black has never been black kinda a light charcoal.

[EatingPie Posted Dec 22nd 2009 11:55PM]

@ReaderGuy EVERY technology loses contrast when you overlay a transparent touch capacitor over it! It has NOTHING to do with the e-Ink screen, it's all about the overlay. So you're blaming the wrong thing.

I have the original Reader, and have not noticed a loss in contrast. No greeen. If your Kindle 1 is greenish, you have a defective unit. So, again, blaming the technology at large because you have a bad unit isn't justified.

e-Ink is a GREAT technology. The touch overlay is an issue, but e-Ink itself rocks.

-Pie