Just the other day there was a discussion on HN about how the biggest uses of time on the iPad are email and web browsing. This doesn't have email and it remains to be seen how well the "cloud web browser" thing works in practice.
Kindle Fire - Full Color Kindle with 7" Multi-Touch Display, Wi-Fi
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#42Just the other day there was a discussion on HN about how the biggest uses of time on the iPad are email and web browsing. This doesn't have email and it remains to be seen how well the "cloud web browser" thing works in practice.
Actually it does have built in email.
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#43This has such a competitive price point that I think it'll do relatively well. I know it can watch movies, play music, browse, etc., do all these tablet things, but I'd definitely like to see it A) execute on those things (especially the browser) and B) have the apps so I don't feel left out for owning a non-iOS device all the time. I'm hoping this gets a high enough market share that Android developers start porting more iOS-only apps over.
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Why do you want a Kindle DX? Reading PDFs in the sunlight? I've always wonder who's buying the DX, because at price, you might as well get an iPad.
As a Kindle DX owner, it's all about the form factor and readability. Back lit screens cause eyestrain for those of us who read quite a bit. With my DX I can read for hours on end in any environment I could read a dead tree version in. And with the battery life measured in page turns, even when reading at a crazy clip I can go more than a week without charging. Form factor was the other huge sell. If I want the abili…
As a former marketing manager I think you simply wrote the most wonderful product pitch I have ever read. You rock!!!
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#45Just the other day there was a discussion on HN about how the biggest uses of time on the iPad are email and web browsing. This doesn't have email and it remains to be seen how well the "cloud web browser" thing works in practice.
Actually it does have built in email.
So it does! My bad.
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Well actually they don't mention what version of Android because they have modified it so much it probably doesn't matter. On the other hand, they DO mention how much ram and internal storage it has.
Where do they call out the amount of ram?
They don't. They told the tech blogs (512MB), but it's nowhere in their marketing materials.
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#47Darn, the Kindle DX is still $379. Everything else got a nice price drop. I've been waiting for a hardware/software update to the Kindle DX and a possible price drop for quite a while now, but I'm not sure I'll ever get it at this point.
Why do you want a Kindle DX? Reading PDFs in the sunlight? I've always wonder who's buying the DX, because at price, you might as well get an iPad.
I'd like to be able to read outside or on the bus next to a window comfortably. I don't really want an iPad since I'd rather have a device optimized for reading documents than watching youtube.
As for Kindle DX vs regular Kindle - I don't have the best eyes so I usually prefer bigger screens. I have a Droid X rather than an iPhone or another Droid because the screen is easier for me to use. I'm also very tall and have large hands. Bigger products are usually more comfortable for me to use.
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#48Unlike the other Kindles, the Fire is not available outside the U.S. I had decided to one, but sadly it looks like that won't happen (at least not as soon as I hoped).
same situation counts for the other kindles, too. I bought one last year, using an extra shipping service.
I don't get it: I bought a kindle from amazon US and they shipped to europe in two days.
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Does anyone have much experience with the browser? I've been thinking about buying a kindle 3 3G, with one of the major motivations being the free worldwide web access. I know it is limited and slow, but it would at least allow for email access / chatting / google voice.
I have a Kindle 2 with cellular access. I used it for GMail communication while bicycling down the Pacific Coast last year. Rendering glitches aside, it's tolerable for reading email, though writing takes a ridiculously long time due to screen redraws. Also, it absolutely sucks battery life down if you do much writing. I can't imagine using it for chatting, and I don't know how GVoice could be used at all. Unless the…
I was just thinking of using GVoice for sending/receiving SMS messages. The Kindle 3 has a webkit browser that is supposedly better than previous versions: