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Main Amazon pages don't seem to be updated, but this URL is: http://www.kindle.com http://www.kindle.com Interesting stuff: * Will still sell current Kindle a
by smackfu 15y ago
Main Amazon pages don't seem to be updated, but this URL is: http://www.kindle.com http://www.kindle.com
Interesting stuff:
* Will still sell current Kindle as "Kindle Keyboard" for same price.
* New non-touch Kindle is 2 ounces lighter than old Kindle, but has half the battery life.
* The new touch Kindle is 1 ounce lighter than old Kindle, with same battery life.
* Kindle Fire is 6-7 ounces lighter than an iPad 2.
* All the prices that were quoted are "with special offers" and the non-ad ones cost more.
- yusefnapora 15y agoThanks for that link and summary. I'm glad there's still an option to buy the non-ad supported models; I was afraid they'd phase them out. Maybe they'll even go crazy and let me use my own screensaver images without jailbreaking!
- toyg 15y agoI'd be happy to PAY for new screensavers or any other way to have custom screensavers without going through the pain of jailbreaking -- i have one of the recent versions which are difficult to root.
- ableal 15y agoThanks for the link, looks good. The price "with special offers" is U.S. only, but most everybody else can also buy from amazon.com at 109 USD. Seems that E.U. Europeans get to pay VAT: "Your international shipment is subject to VAT. This is the same VAT rate you pay when you buy products in your country. There are NO customs duties or any other fees."
- AndreiVajnaII 15y agoAlso, it seems that the Kindle Touch is not available in Europe!?
- estel 15y agoNor is the Kindle Fire.
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- iam 15y agoGreat, now we can buy the cheaper version, jailbreak it, and remove ads. Brilliant!
- antimarketing 15y agono-no, they mean that these are special offer prices. Normal pricing will be more expensive.
- maximilian 15y agoWhat popped out at me was the battery life for the fire: 8 hours continuous reading or 7.5 hours video playback 8 hours doesn't seem like very much. Clearly its an LCD panel with back lighting and all that, but 8 hours seems a bit short.
- smackfu 15y agoThat is a fairly standard number for a tablet. iPad, Touchpad, Galaxy Tab, nook color are all in that neighborhood. Anything better means a bigger battery = more weight and thickness.
- msh 15y agoiPad is 10 hours of video and even more for Reading.
- nkassis 15y ago7.5 hours of continuous video playback is pretty good I think. And for my average reading time per day, it's plenty. You will have to recharge this thing daily but whatever. I already do that with my phone.
- alatkins 15y agoMan, how our expectations change in a short time. Nobody quite believed the iPad's 10-hour claim at launch, now apparently it's the accepted baseline in less than years :-)
- smackfu 15y agoFYI, this is not quite right: "Will still sell current Kindle as "Kindle Keyboard" for same price." They actually dropped it from $114 to $99.
- arkx 15y agoFor rest of the world: 1 ounce = 28.3 grams.