- 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 »
