Amazon Kindle

[TinkTanker]

Thinking about picking up one of these. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nookcolor/index.asp

BB has them for $249 with returns through the end of January. Supposedly B&N will be supporting this with a limited app store early next year, with an Android 2.2 upgrade. That will make it snappier with better battery life. Plus Flash support.

Essentially it is the bastard child of an e-reader and a tablet. You can surf the web, check email, and look at documents, though not edit them. But the 2.2 upgrade will allow use of Google documents, so you'll be able then. It weighs less than a pound, roughly 5x7, comes with 8GB installed (5GB available), you can throw it a 32GB microSD card if need be. I tried one out at BB and reading this site and HSX was a hell out a lot easier than on my smartphone. The ebooks look nice, you can adjust to several fonts and a variety of sizes and color schemes. Battery life is 8-10 hours. Backlit LCD screen is really bright with lots of contrast. Someone said they have no problem playing mp4 video files.

I'd like an iPad, but this is half the cost and I think the sweet spot for screen size. I'd love to play Angry Birds on it, but you can't have everything.

[Spooky]

Is this a sign that a Kindle Tablet is on the way?

http://ireaderreview.com/2011/01/05/is-this-a-sign-that-a-kindle-tablet-is-on-the-way/

[TinkTanker]

Is this a sign that a Kindle Tablet is on the way?

http://ireaderreview.com/2011/01/05/is-this-a-sign-that-a-kindle-tablet-is-on-the-way/

By the time anyone else figures out how to build a better tablet than the iPad, Apple will have the market sewn up. Oh wait, they already have.

[Phyll33]

Is this a sign that a Kindle Tablet is on the way?

http://ireaderreview.com/2011/01/05/is-this-a-sign-that-a-kindle-tablet-is-on-the-way/

By the time anyone else figures out how to build a better tablet than the iPad, Apple will have the market sewn up. Oh wait, they already have.

  I gave my granddaughter the 3G Wifi Kindle for Christmas and the grandson the 32GB iPod Touch. So I know
what you mean about Apple and it looks like the Kindle has got that market right now.  I think I liked it better
when they were little, their toys were a lot cheaper.

[TinkTanker]

Kindle owns the e-reader market. There is none better. If all I wanted was an e-reader, that is what I would get. I did buy a Nook Color, played around with it for a few days, returned it. It wasn't as user friendly as a Kindle. Ann would not take anything for hers. In the six months or so since she's had it, I think I've seen her with a dead tree book two or three times. On the Kindle, she's read two or three books a week, minimum.

Apple owns the tablet market right now. The few competitors have smaller tablet that do less and cost more. To get one approaching the iPad price point, you have to sign up for a data contract, which adds another $30 a month for two years to the price. At which point you end up paying more for the data than the actual device. Samsung just cut the price on their 7" tablet to the same price as the 9.7" iPad. Providing you spend another $30 a month for data. The iPad does not replace a desktop or laptop computer. It is however the near-perfect casual computing device. IMHO.

[Spooky]

 

Complaint: My Kindle is an awful ice-scraper!

I tried to use my K3 to scrape ice off the windshield. What a disappointment. First off, with the cover closed, no ice was even loosened. When I took the Kindle out of the cover and tried again, it worked slightly better, but still didn't get the deeply embedded ice to budge. So next, I thought that if I warmed the Kindle it might work better. So I carefully heated it all around with a hand-held propane torch. Well, you're not going to believe this, but the Kindle started to melt! I stopped before the screen was completely damaged. Still, my Kindle now looks, in a word, "different." My question: do you think I might have voided the waranty?

http://www.amazon.com/tag/kindle/forum/ref=cm_cd_rss_f_view?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&cdPage=1&cdThread=Tx1EXG5D1EBXHEP

[Eric]

lol, silly.

[AdmiralDigby]

Complaint: My Kindle is an awful ice-scraper!

I tried to use my K3 to scrape ice off the windshield. What a disappointment. First off, with the cover closed, no ice was even loosened. When I took the Kindle out of the cover and tried again, it worked slightly better, but still didn't get the deeply embedded ice to budge. So next, I thought that if I warmed the Kindle it might work better. So I carefully heated it all around with a hand-held propane torch. Well, you're not going to believe this, but the Kindle started to melt! I stopped before the screen was completely damaged. Still, my Kindle now looks, in a word, "different." My question: do you think I might have voided the waranty?

http://www.amazon.com/tag/kindle/forum/ref=cm_cd_rss_f_view?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&cdPage=1&cdThread=Tx1EXG5D1EBXHEP

Stolen and now on my FB .

[Spooky]

Just announced: Kindle books have now overtaken paperback books as the most popular format on Amazon.com. Thanks to all of our Kindle fans and customers!

http://www.facebook.com/kindle/posts/196818347001058

[TinkTanker]

A newer version of the Kindle is due out May 3rd for $25 less ($114) through Amazon and Target. It will feature ads on the home page and 'screen saver', though not in the e-books themselves. Sounds like a heckuva deal to me.



http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/11/ad-supported-kindle-to-ship-may-3rd-saves-25-adds-lot-of-enti/