Amazon Finally Has a Color Kindle (theverge.com) 24
Amazon has unveiled its first color e-reader, the Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition, priced at $279.99. The 7-inch device, available for preorder with shipments starting October 30th, utilizes E Ink's Kaleido technology and a new display stack. Kevin Keith, head of Kindle products, claims the Colorsoft maintains Kindle's hallmark features while introducing color without compromising performance.
The e-reader boasts a 300ppi screen, enhanced LED pixels, and improved light distribution for vivid colors. It offers faster page turns and book openings compared to previous models. The color screen enhances the user interface, allowing for full-color book covers and a more vibrant standby display.
The e-reader boasts a 300ppi screen, enhanced LED pixels, and improved light distribution for vivid colors. It offers faster page turns and book openings compared to previous models. The color screen enhances the user interface, allowing for full-color book covers and a more vibrant standby display.
Re: DRM killed the Kindle for me (Score:2)
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You can do this now without Calibre if you choose the right format to download.
Nope. (Score:2)
That's a lie. I've got one right here that somebody gave me years ago. Says Kindle on it, has a color screen.
Why make stupid claims that are easily disprovable?
Why? (Score:1)
Re: Why? (Score:2)
How else would we know the author is being satirical?
I haven't a clue. ;-)
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That's a lie. I've got one right here that somebody gave me years ago. Says Kindle on it, has a color screen.
Why make stupid claims that are easily disprovable?
The headline is a little 'off.' It may be the first color eInk display Kindle. They just missed that one little tidbit: eInk.
It's neat to see some progress on color eInk, but it's still not enough to make me want a Kindle.
Re: Nope. (Score:3)
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The e-reader boasts a 300ppi screen, enhanced LED pixels, and improved light distribution for vivid colors.
To be fair, the summary also talks about LED pixels. It may run (non-Android?) e-reader software, but the eink display apparently has a "vivid" LED backlight (not even a 'frontlight' like some other epaper screens).
Backlit LED screen, color (and cheap) were the exact selling points of the other color Kindle devices. Headline could have said "Backlit, color Kindles now have an eink option."
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The LCD-based kindle tablets were simply a huge mistake on Amazon's part, and never really true kindles in the first place; although they technically carry the brand. If it was not e-ink based, then it was not suitable to sit down with and read on for long periods of time.
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They had to wait until the rebrand of the tablets to just "Fire" was complete. Because they never worked well as a Kindle device in the first place.
...so it has color ads (Score:2)
Beyond the ads will any of the content actually support color presentation?
Uses the lower quality Kaleido technology (Score:5, Interesting)
Isn't this supposed to be the lower quality technology Kaleido? Kaleido uses another layer of filters.
It is one more layer and it makes it even dimmer and more necessary to have the light.
Just compare the modern readers to the old ones and the old ones are so bright looking. The old ones did not have touch screen, e-pen or e-pencil to write stuff and didn't need all those layers. Now, they add layers and layers of useless features on the screen and then add a frontlight to get back the brightness they lost.
It could have a 3D display (Score:3)
if I can't load my own epubs and pdfs, it can fuck right off. No amount of technical merits will offset the ick of being locked in Amazon's icky ecosystem.
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why wouldnt you be able to? You can do that today with any kindle
Re: It could have a 3D display (Score:2)
"The ick"? What are you, 9?
wishy washy (Score:2)
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Looks to me like an old colorized black and white movie. I guess what they meant by "the technology is finally ready", was that it fits right in with the rest of the Temu-grade crap on Amazon.
Not the first (Score:1)
The hardware is fine (Score:2)