The Kindle is a veteran among e-book readers. Now Amazon launches a completely modified version of the model class Kindle Paperwhite average. Let’s see how does it compare with previous model and compared with Amazon’s flagship reader - Kindle Voyage.
Sharper with 300 ppi
Display Size Kindle Paperwhite remained the himself and the visible surface of the screen still has 9 x 12.2 cm, but its the resolution is much higher. E-ink display shows now 1448 x 1072 pixels, which gives 300 ppi (pixels per inch). It has So almost nearly the same resolution as the higher model of the Kindle Voyage. The new version of the Paperwhite display text and the images are clearly sharper, and the pixel can not be already recognize . As with all displays of E-ink image is very poor contrast, but the difference in compared with about 300 gold more expensive Voyage is small. Voyage offers for równomierniejsze lighting.
Almost like a printed book: thanks high resolution texts are perfectly sharp
Even if the text does not look more like a printed book, the with active backlight Paperwhite much to her approaching. However, this feature heavily drains the battery and if it we use it after a few hours we will have to charge device. Without backlight battery withstood the test more than 86 hours , which is enough to read almost 5200 pages. Paperwhite is charged through the microUSB socket. Readers not having USB power adapter must be bought.
battery in the Kindle does allow for long read, but one day even he will require recharging. Using the enclosed cable fits into any USB power adapter for an example from your smartphone or tablet. The original charger Amazon (for photo) costs about 85 zlotys. No bargain, but for this race Charging is sufficient even for tablets.
Beautiful new font
New Kindle Paperwhite got a new font Bookerly, a little prettier than its predecessor and clearly visible even in the slightest size. Owners of older should get a new Paperwhite font update.
Touch Menu
Starting Paperwhite is as simple as can be I would imagine : Enter the password for the Wi-Fi connection, log in to the Amazon account and we can start. The most important settings We introduce rapidly in the menu bar that appears when you touching the top of the screen.
Paperwhite user must manually adjust the brightness of the screen. Who wants to automatically adjust the brightness, must reach the Voyage expensive model.
Vulnerable scratch
From the outside, the Paperwhite nothing has changed – the reader still has soft plastic housing. This comfortable to hands, but quickly draws, as well as display . It is better to immediately pack Paperwhite in protective pouch. Thanks glass pane in front of the display Voyage is a robust, despite remaining considerably lighter.
plastic surface of the screen is quite sensitive to scratch, so it is worth investing in a protective case. It is Although stylish, but with the price of 200 zlotys quite expensive. Choice alternative products, however, is big, and it’s smaller money. A simple neoprene case is already available in 15 respectively.
Summary
Thanks to the high-resolution reading on your new Kindle Paperwhite is particularly pleasant. The reader still a little missing for more expensive Kindle Voyage, but if you do not mind us a few grams more weight and we can put in protective Paperwhite case, it quietly will save 300 dollars. It is a pity that the new Kindle is strongly linked to the online store Amazon.
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No one product can be all things to all people, that’s the point of variety. It’s why Apple now has multiple sized iPhones and iPads, and why Amazon Continues to try filling in the gaps on its Kindle Fire tablet lineup with an eclectic lineup of the most amazing shapes and sizes.
The new Kindle Fire HD 10 is of a piece with that strategy. It’s not a high-end tablet like the Fire HDX 8.9 and not a truly a low-end model like the $ 99 Kindle Fire HD 6. Instead, the new device sits somewhere in the middle, offering the larger screen Consumers want with a $ 229.99 price more can manage. It’s $ 244.99 without lock screens sponsored.
The trouble is I do not really like it.
There is nothing ostensibly wrong with the tablet. It’s sleek, thin (0.30-inches), lighter than an iPad Air (by more than one ounce), shiny (slippery), has a nice widescreen and is quite adept at content consumption and entertainment. However aside from the side-smiling Amazon logo on the back, the Android 5.0 Lollipop-based device that looks completely unrelated Amazon’s forward-leaning and somewhat smaller HDX tablet devices.
It is a part of a new line of low-cost, That widescreen devices come in Day-Glo colors like orange, blue and pink. This largest model, though, only comes in black or white.
Amazon Kindle Fire HD 10′s back is shiny black plastic. It does not feel cheap, but is pretty slippery.
Image: Mashable, Jhila Farzanzeh
These new tablets eschew the design language Amazon Introduced with the HDX – no dynamic edges, no physical buttons on the back (they’re on the edge like most other tablets). And while the HDX offers a 4: 3 aspect ratio, the new tablets, Including this 10.1-inch one, opt for a 16: 9 screen. The result is something That is so wide and relatively narrow it’s almost unwieldy. Stand it on its narrow edge and it looks like the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey .
Whatever works
When Amazon first introduce the HDX line, I applauded the edgy design. It stood out and offered some utility, like Ensuring That the downward-firing speakers had enough room to bounce sound off the table and back to you. Amazon did not update the HDX this year and now seems fixated on capturing a lower-end market with the revamped Fire HD line.
The radical differences between the HDX line and the growing HD These indicates a lack of commitment they design ideal. Look at Apple, tablets Their all look alike. That’s good for Consumers and, probably, good for Apple since they’re dealing with design differences less than with size considerations.
The lack of commitment goes deeper than design.
Hope you did not like the carousel too much. Amazon dropped the interface metaphor in its Fire OS 5.
Image: Mashable, Jhila Farzaneh
Since the first Amazon Fire HD, Amazon’s then forked Android interface has featured a unique and useful carousel for managing recently accessed apps and content. It was not perfect, but stood as a signature item.
In recent years, Amazon has shifted to a more Android-like interface , while Maintaining the carousel. Fire OS 5.0, though, Which is built on top of Lollipop is the closest Amazon has come to a stock Android implementation directory. It’s also discarded the carousel, the back arrow and even the virtual home button That used to look like a little house (while you were in an app, you could slide your finger in from the screen edge to make it Appear). In its place is the standard Android 5.0 home circle, back caret and app switcher square.
All subtlety is gone from the interface. Instead of a letter of content and activity categories at the top, the Amazon Kindle Fire HD 10 Fire running OS 5 features a big, all-cap labels that you ‘swipe through. This actually works rather well. There is also, on the home screen, a grid of installed apps That will be familiar is the Kindle HD and Android aficionados.
Amazon knows a lot about what you like and is always ready to show you more stuff you can buy.
What the new interface excels at is revealing just how much Amazon knows about your buying and content consumption habits. Much more of each screen is devoted is showing you content you might like based on previous choices. Even while you’re in the content, the Kindle Fire HD 10 will suggest new content. This happened to me as I was finishing the second volume of Batman: Knightfall . The system astutely suggested I buy the third and final volume. I just wish it did not do it three or four times.
Amazon Kindle Fire HD 10 features Fire OS 5 and the latest edition of Amazon’s e-mail client.
Amazon has also updated its proprietary Silk browser. It’s cleaner and, in my tests, faster than ever. The e-mail client looks sharp, but I do not understand why they put the email compose icon in dry and random position. You’ll find it at the bottom right of the email subject column.
The guts
As a mid-tier tablet, the Kindle Fire HD 10 is an unpleasant mixture of average and sub-par performances. Amazon says they packed it with a quad-core CPU running at 1.5GHz (dual-core) and 1.2 GHz (dual-core), but the performances often stuttered, Especially every time I hit the home button and waited for the tablet to return me to the home screen. Performance was better within apps. Geekbench gave it a 774 single core performance number and 1502 multicore (compare That is the Kindle HDX’s 1024 single core and 2974 multicore numbers).
The 1,280 x 800 HD display looks good, but is nothing special. It definitely took some getting used to the 16: 9 display size. It was fine for widescreen movies and even some games like the side-scrolling Badlands , but truly odd when you read a Kindle book on it in portrait mode (landscape with multiple pages on one screen made more sense) . Text, by the way, looked sharp, but graphic novels were kind of fuzzy.
The cameras run from average is terrible. The 5-megapixel rear one takes decent photos (and 1080p videos), but virtually any smartphone on the market can do better. The front-facing camera Manages to take some pretty awful shots, though its 720p video is fine for Skype video.
Content is king
Where the Kindle Fire HD 10 does shine is, to be honest, where Amazon shines in content and access is growing its letter of services. The experience is Especially good if you are a paying Amazon Prime Member.
Amazon’s Word Runner is a nice speed-reading tool.
Amazon Continues to experiment with ways to make reading better, if not more fun. The latest reading is the twist aptly called Word Runner. It’s a built-in speed-reading interface for the Kindle Reader app That shows you one word at a time. It starts slowly and speeds up Gradually (still slowing down a bit of a tougher words): unless you hold the screen is, in essence, hit the brakes. I’ve been experiencing single-word reading speed tools since I was in grade school so I kind of enjoyed this. Not sure why Amazon hid it under an inconspicuous menus that you ‘can only access by tapping the screen. That same menus has X-Ray for the Kindle reader and Word Wise Which definition shows hints about the challenging words.
You also have access is Amazon’s movie rental and purchase library. Prime members get Amazon Prime Video, Which includes free streaming of movies and TV shows as well as original shows like recent Emmy winner Transparent . Amazon even lets you download movies and watch them in a 48-hour offline window. I tried this out with Hercules . It took around 20 minutes to download over Wi-Fi, but then I was able to watch it on the train without being connected to the Internet. When the 48-hour window expired, I had to connect to the Internet to continue watching my local copy. I hope Netflix considers adding this option.
Amazon Prime Video offers you a 48 hour viewing window for offline content.
One of my favorite features is still X-ray, Which, when you pause a TV show or movie, will give an overlay window with details about the actors in the scene you’re watching. It’s the ultimate trivia tool.
Movies and TV shows look quite good on the widescreen and the stereo speakers pump out a surprising amount of sound .
Games play well enough, though I’m often frustrated by the action game choices in the Amazon store. Asphalt 8: Airborne, for instance is gone, but I can find the terrible knockoff High Speed Racing: Racing Need .
At a more than $ 100 savings over other size-comparable tablets, the 16GB (128GB is upgradeable through a microSD slot) $ 229.99 Kindle Fire HD 10 is a decent deal. Amazon is also the only one offering free, on-device, live support in the form of Mayday Screen Sharing.
Still, I can not recommend it, not when there are so many other better-designed and more powerful tablets on the market, Including Amazon’s own HDX line. Will you pay more? Definitely. Tablets, though, are something in tend to buy and keep. Skimp now and you will regret it for years to come.
Amazon Kindle Fire HD 10
The Good
Thin • Light • Big Screen • Excellent content consumption platform • Great price
The Bad
Too Wide • Design is average • Well carousel • Average performance
The Bottom Line
The Amazon Kindle Fire HD 10 stands out for its price, size and content offerings, but average performance and loss of distinctive features makes it less desirable than it should be.
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A few days ago there were rumors about Amazon’s work on the new 10 -calowym tablet Kindle Fire and even published some pictures of this gadget. Recently, it was found that the device in the benchmark GFXBench. While the parameters of this gadget will prove to be true in the financial sector will be a strong player. The “heart” tablet is MediaTek MT8135 SoC with dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 and Cortex-A7 two, for displaying an image corresponding to the GPU PowerVR G6200 Rogue. And unfortunately only 1 GB of RAM. What is true for devices based on Android this amount rarely ceases to be sufficient, the more that the tablet has a screen with a rather impressive resolution of 1280×800 pixels.
Of course there will be two cameras – front and rear 5.1 0.9 megapixels. Storage would like to say is “up to” 16GB, besides Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, gyroscope and a pedometer. Fire OS operating system is nothing but a prepared via Amazon’s own Android version based on the 5.1 Lollipop.
New device appeared in the benchmark GFX Bench, making the network hit its exact technical specifications. They will be equipped with 10-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. His heart will be while MediaTek MT8135 quad-core processor, equipped with a dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 and Cortex-A7 two of the graphics unit Rogue PowerVR G6200, supported by 1 GB of RAM.
You can also see the shape of the device, which shows that the new model will have slightly sharper corners and edges compared to the current generation of models. We also know that the operating system will fire an updated version of the OS based on Android 5.1 Lollipop, which looks more and more like Google’s operating system.
Unfortunately, only in appearance, because it will still be incompatible with the most services of the company from Mountain View.
The Kindle is a veteran among e-book readers. Now Amazon launches a completely modified version of the model class Kindle Paperwhite average. Let’s see how does it compare with previous model and compared with Amazon’s flagship reader - Kindle Voyage.
Sharper with 300 ppi
Display Size Kindle Paperwhite remained the himself and the visible surface of the screen still has 9 x 12.2 cm, but its the resolution is much higher. E-ink display shows now 1448 x 1072 pixels, which gives 300 ppi (pixels per inch). It has So almost nearly the same resolution as the higher model of the Kindle Voyage. The new version of the Paperwhite display text and the images are clearly sharper, and the pixel can not be already recognize . As with all displays of E-ink image is very poor contrast, but the difference in compared with about 300 gold more expensive Voyage is small. Voyage offers for równomierniejsze lighting.
Almost like a printed book: thanks high resolution texts are perfectly sharp
Even if the text does not look more like a printed book, the with active backlight Paperwhite much to her approaching. However, this feature heavily drains the battery and if it we use it after a few hours we will have to charge device. Without backlight battery withstood the test more than 86 hours , which is enough to read almost 5200 pages. Paperwhite is charged through the microUSB socket. Readers not having USB power adapter must be bought.
battery in the Kindle does allow for long read, but one day even he will require recharging. Using the enclosed cable fits into any USB power adapter for an example from your smartphone or tablet. The original charger Amazon (for photo) costs about 85 zlotys. No bargain, but for this race Charging is sufficient even for tablets.
Beautiful new font
New Kindle Paperwhite got a new font Bookerly, a little prettier than its predecessor and clearly visible even in the slightest size. Owners of older should get a new Paperwhite font update.
Touch Menu
Starting Paperwhite is as simple as can be I would imagine : Enter the password for the Wi-Fi connection, log in to the Amazon account and we can start. The most important settings We introduce rapidly in the menu bar that appears when you touching the top of the screen.
Paperwhite user must manually adjust the brightness of the screen. Who wants to automatically adjust the brightness, must reach the Voyage expensive model.
Vulnerable scratch
From the outside, the Paperwhite nothing has changed – the reader still has soft plastic housing. This comfortable to hands, but quickly draws, as well as display . It is better to immediately pack Paperwhite in protective pouch. Thanks glass pane in front of the display Voyage is a robust, despite remaining considerably lighter.
plastic surface of the screen is quite sensitive to scratch, so it is worth investing in a protective case. It is Although stylish, but with the price of 200 zlotys quite expensive. Choice alternative products, however, is big, and it’s smaller money. A simple neoprene case is already available in 15 respectively.
Summary
Thanks to the high-resolution reading on your new Kindle Paperwhite is particularly enjoyable. The reader still a little missing for more expensive Kindle Voyage, but if you do not mind us a few grams more weight and we can put in protective Paperwhite case, it quietly will save 300 dollars. It is a pity that the new Kindle is strongly linked to the online store Amazon.
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At the market you can find a reader inkBOOK Onyx Wroclaw, Poland Arta Tech, offering a backlit screen E Ink Carta, known even with the Kindle Paperwhite 2 . The manufacturer just announced its cheaper version called Classic.
E-Reader inkBOOK
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inkBOOK first appeared in the market in late June and early July, but loud about the device made in August, when you went to Legimi.com bookstores offer. It is at this moment the only reader who buy in Poland subscription, so without lecturing on the table the full cost of the device. The market price of the device is from 540 to 590 zlotys. Some stores also offer him a voucher for e-books.
inkBOOK Onyx is equipped with a 6-inch E Ink Carta with backlight, a well-known users of the popular Kindle Paperwhite 2. The reader recreates the most popular e-book formats including PDF, EPUB and MOBI. Its heart is a dual-core processor. inkBOOK Onyx is equipped with a microSD card slot and wireless connectivity. Works on Android 4.2 with the overlay and the application package useful for readers.
The manufacturer announced on its website that it will soon make its debut on the market next model in the series inkBOOK, marked the Classic. According to preliminary information, it will be cheaper device, a simpler construction and dedicated to less demanding users. It is not known whether Arta Tech decides to make use backlit touch screen. Budget inkBOOK Classic may be the answer Polish producer on the Amazon Kindle readers Classic, costing approx. 300 zlotys. For sale should hit the fall.
It is worth noting that the Arta Tech has created a brand inkBOOK in response to end cooperation with the Chinese company ONYX International. We can read about it on the official website of Arta Tech. Earlier, the Polish company was the distributor of readers under the sign of ONYX Boox. For several months now promotes its own products.
OnePlus has Announced That OnePlus 2 smartphone buyers in India Will Be Eligible for a gift voucher of Rs 500 from the Amazon Kindle Store. OnePlus 2 owners can choose from a vast catalog of books.
All downloaded books and content can be accessed on Kindle devices and the Kindle app, Including the OnePlus 2. Post Registering the Kindle reading app on the OnePlus 2 and Rs 500 credit will be applied this Their personal Amazon Kindle account automatically box and the user will be Notified of the credited amount via an e-mail as well.
For Those Who are waiting for an invite to buy The new OnePlus 2 smartphone cam now visit Airtel Store stand a chance to get it.
For the Airtel subscribers, OnePlus 2 buyers can get a chance to win an invite to moving to Airtel 4G SIM card. Others will have to shift that Airtel postpaid 4G to stand a chance to get a OnePlus 2 invite.
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OnePlus 2 is already getting a good response from the buyers, but to add to it the company has now come out with an offer to attract the book lovers. It has now Announced That each OnePlus 2 buyer will be be Eligible for a gift voucher of Rs 500 from Amazon’s Kindle Store.
OnePlus 2 owners can now choose from a vast catalog of genres, dry as literature, fiction , health, productivity, business and economics, biographies and children’s books to kickstart Their reading marathon.
All OnePlus 2 users need to to is buy Their first book or splurge the voucher amount on the next big best-seller . All downloaded books and content can be accessed on Kindle devices and the Kindle app, Including the OnePlus 2. After Registering the Kindle reading app on OnePlus 2, and Rs 500 credit will be applied this Their personal Amazon Kindle account automatically box and the user will be Notified of the credited amount via an e-mail.
OnePlus has already partnered with Airtel is a showcase OnePlus 2 at the retail outlets of the mobile phone service provider and it also Announced that offer Invites for buying the smartphone after upgrading the sim cards from 3G 4G.
OnePlus 2 packs a fingerprint sensor hardware switch notification, LPDDR4 RAM, Gorilla Glass 4 protection, better camera and Android 5.1.1 OS powered home baked Oxygen 2.0.
Powered by Snapdragon 810 SoC, OnePlus 2 packs and LPDDR4 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage and 5.5-inch full HD LCD display.
OnePlus 2 Can Be Purchased Exclusively through Amazon.in for Rs 24,999 . OnePlus is also tipped to release a 3GB RAM / 16GB storage version for Rs 21.999 later this year.
Charlottetown author Patti Larsen’s book, Freak Show is one of the finalists in this year’s Kindle Book Awards.
Larsen’s first adult paranormal murder mystery is nominated in the mystery-thriller category . It is the first in a series of 21 books called The Nightshade Cases .
The awards are given to self-published books. The semi-finalists were picked based on a book excerpt and an online blurb. But a judge read the whole book for it to end up in the top five, says Larsen.
“This is another confirmation really amazing to me that I’m doing it right, Which is fantastic and I ‘ m super-happy, “said Larsen.
” Even if I do not win, just to make it into the finals category, I mean, there are thousands of entries in this Particular award system. ”
If the Freak Show wins, Larsen will receive a prize package of just over $ 1,000.
Winners will be announced Oct. 1.
In 2014 Larsen also won the international World’s Best Story Contest for her book Family Magic about a teenage girl Whose mother is a witch and father is a demon.
A few days ago there were rumors about Amazon’s work on the new 10 -calowym tablet Kindle Fire and even published some pictures of this gadget. Recently, it was found that the device in the benchmark GFXBench. While the parameters of this gadget will prove to be true in the financial sector will be a strong player. The “heart” tablet is MediaTek MT8135 SoC with dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 and Cortex-A7 two, for displaying an image corresponding to the GPU PowerVR G6200 Rogue. And unfortunately only 1 GB of RAM. What is true for devices based on Android this amount rarely ceases to be sufficient, the more that the tablet has a screen with a rather impressive resolution of 1280×800 pixels. 
