Amazon didn’t just introduce the tablet everyone expected today; the company completely revamped its Kindle line and introduced a new mobile browser that relies on Amazon’s content distribution network and compute clusters in order to speed up mobile browsing.
All of this cried out for some hands-on time with the hardware after the live announcement in New York. Unfortunately, Amazon was extremely guarded about its new hardware; the only device we were allowed to pick up and use is that low-end Kindle, which is supposed to be shipping already.
The new Kindle Touch could barely be touched, and hands-on time with the Fire was limited to a carefully monitored test of its weight. Read the rest of this entry »
Well look here! You can have your cake and eat it too — and by cake we mean that landscape QWERTY smartphone known as the Nokia E7.
The latest and greatest Communicator has caught up with its European twin and is shipping unlocked and contract-free from Amazon right now.
It can be yours for $649, which is somewhat cheaper than the $679 pre-order price we mentioned last month.
This buys you a 4-inch 640×360 ClearBlack AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, an 8 megapixel EDoF camera with dual-LED flash, a pentaband 3G radio, and the coolest hinge mechanism on the block.
So visit the source link, and get your Symbian on.
No Android device? No problem!
Turns out Amazon’s upcoming Appstore for Android – which has been in the works for some time – will allow you to purchase apps even before you receive the device you intend to install them on, presumably so that you’re stocked up and ready to go by the time the phone (or tablet, or whatever miscellaneous gizmo) arrives on your doorstep.
As AllThingsD points out, the concept appears to go partway toward mimicking Amazon’s Kindle business model, which does a decent job of decoupling content (which is associated with your Amazon account) from the actual hardware you’ve got it installed on.
We still don’t know exactly when the Appstore is launching, but considering Amazon’s retail chops, these guys might actually stand a chance at cutting into the Android Market’s revenue by some noticeable margin.
- Author: admin
- Filed under: General
- Date: Jan 20,2011
Amazon has just announced it has agreed terms to buy up all the remaining shares of Lovefilm it didn’t already own.
The British outfit operates a subscription-based movie rental and streaming service in its home market along with Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, and should give Amazon a very solid base from which to build its presumably Netflix-besting ambitions.
Lovefilm has been just about the closest thing Europe has had to the ridiculously successful North American movie distributor and Amazon is arguably getting in just in time, given Netflix’s overtures toward expanding into the UK.
Customary closing conditions will need to be met before the final stamp of approval is applied, but the acquisition is expected to complete by the end of Q1 of this year. Amazon’s wading into yet more content distribution, who’d have thunk it? Read the rest of this entry »
- Author: admin
- Filed under: General
- Date: Jan 15,2011
Amazon Kindle Reading Apps.
Kindle reading applications are available for mobile devices and computers.
No Kindle is required to enjoy these reading applications.
- Author: adryana
- Filed under: iPhone
- Date: Jul 1,2010
EBook Reader are not too popular here, and names like Amazon Kindle or Sony Reader just does something too few.
Why? There are many reasons. First of all, are expensive. Then do not bring one to us. And even if they would bring, would be hard to go for electronic books for them, they are not available in Romanian, and stores such books outside.
In addition, we do not read it too, so even if there were no inconveniences above all not too would be demand for ebook readers. At least I think so. It would be interesting to those of an opinion on this issue Bookblog. More on these devices in a future article. Read the rest of this entry »
The idea of this thin book is that danger is something kids need to learn to handle by experience. The 50 small experiments in this book can potentially cause a minor injury (although they are unlikely to), but are never really seriously dangerous.
In fact most of them aren’t dangerous at all, but at least they are fun. There are no special techniques, secret formulas or exclusive knowhow here that everyday knowledge or a quick internet search would not turn up.
Fifty Dangerous Things (you should let your children do)
Gever Tulley
2009, 130 pages
$24
Available from Amazon Read the rest of this entry »
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Handhelds
- Date: Jun 19,2009
Here’s the one-line summary of the Kindle DX: It’s Kindle 2 with a larger screen, hair-trigger orientation sensor, and an awful keyboard. Seriously awful.
Yes, we know we should be focused on things like PDF support or even content partners like newspapers and textbook publishers, but we’re having a hard time getting over the keyboard — it’s emblematic of some puzzling design choices Amazon made with the Kindle DX. What do we mean? Read on. Read the rest of this entry »
The newspaper of the future may soon be in your hands. Amazon’s popular Kindle e-book reader could be set for an update as early as this week, according to a report in the New York Times.
The Times even speculates the larger model could do for newspapers what the iPod did for the music industry.
The new Kindle, the Times reports, would be better tailored to suit newspapers and magazines – and presumably help defray the high cost of printing and distribution with digital downloads over the device’s wireless Internet connection. Read the rest of this entry »
This morning Amazon officially announced its second-generation ebook, the Kindle 2 (although leaked photographs of the device have been floating around the internet for some time now).
All-in-all, the new Kindle is a modest step up from the first generation, introducing nothing too radical to the design or functionality but improving the device in a variety of incremental ways.
So just what’s new and different? We’ll take you through the highlights below. If you’ve spotted any other important differences, please let us know in the comments. Read the rest of this entry »
