Sony Launches PRS-T2 Touchscreen E-Reader for $130 - gainesfreace

Sony has unveiled the Sony Reader PRS-T2, a touchscreen-enabled follow-up to the low-priced PRS-T1 that debuted in ripe 2011. Sony's up-to-the-minute plus to the PRS-T lineup features fres social features for Facebook and Evernote, developed paginate turns, simplified home screen, improved battery life, and one additional fount size compared to its predecessor. The device comes in colourless, red, and matte black, costs $130 and, at least at launch, includes a voucher to get the e-book rendering of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

As with the PRS-T1, the PRS-T2 features a 6-edge display, 2GB storage, and an included stylus for jotting down notes in your e-books. The PRS-T2 besides has the unchanged physical button layout as the PRS-T1 for those times when you don't want to use of goods and services the touch screen. But this clock time, the buttons are shaped arsenic the icons they defend instead of a row of interchangeable-sized buttons. The overall physical purpose brush up gives the PRS-T2 a much sleeker look than its predecessor. Sony says the PRS-T2 will bring home the bacon users with up to two months of bombardment life (with the wireless off), about a three-week jump from the PRS-T1's five weeks.

If you want to get cultural and part what you're reading, the PRS-T2 allows you to share book quotes and continue art on Facebook. Sony did non destine how long the Facebook inverted comma could be. You can also use the PRS-T2 to check out WWW clippings you've preserved to Evernote. And if you use Evernote Clearly, the Vane overhaul's Instapaper clone, your plain text articles testament be optimized for Reading connected the PRS-T2's E-Ink Pearl V220 touchscreen display.

Every bit with previous Sony Readers, you can grab new books from the Reader Store or you posterior borrow e-books from more than 15,000 U.S. public libraries — as long as you have a valid U.S. subroutine library card.

The PRS-T2 is available right away from Sony and past retailers.

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