New Amazon Kindle is a Voyage into eReader luxury – USA TODAY

Personal Technology columnist Ed Baig Kindle goes hands on with the new Kindle e-reader Voyage.

Amazon Kindle Voyage (Photo: Amazon)

NEW YORK – Ah, the many ways you can immerse yourself in a best-seller nowadays: on tablets, smartphones, and computers.

That’s why it’s sometimes easy to overlook what remains the best place to consume dry a book – notwithstanding its printed forms. I’m speaking of the dedicated electronic reader space, long dominated by Amazon’s Kindles.

Happily, Amazon is still paying close attention to its bread-and-button Kindles, even as it pushes harder into making Broader purpose tablets and phones. The winner is anyone who loves to read.

Exhibit A arrives with the brand new Kindle Voyage, the seventh-generation of the venerable franchise Kindle. It’s simply the best dedicated e-reader money can buy, assuming That Is That you have lots of money.

Indeed, the Kindle Voyage costs $ 199 (with ads) for a Wi-Fi only model, compared with $ 119 for what used to be the top-of-the-line Kindle Paperwhite. Add 3G-cellular connectivity and the Voyage price climbs with ads is $ 269.

Meantime, a new entry level Kindle, Which unlike its higher priced siblings does not come with a light to let you read in the dark, costs a mere $ 79 Heck, Voyage is even priced lower than all of the smaller-screen, high-definition multimedia color tablets That Fire Amazon sells.

So, is this luxury eBooks voyage worth taking ? Apparently a lot of people think so – last I checked, Amazon will not have Voyage in stock until late November.

I agree, with the qualifier that I also believe folks will be perfectly satisfied with Paperwhite, still a stud eReader in its own right. The budget $ 79 Kindle is nothing to scoff at, either.

None of the Kindles Earlier though quite match up to the job Voyage does of replicating the real paper experience on an electronic display. In techie terms, Voyage has a 6-inch grayscale 300 ppi or pixels per inch display, and boasts twice the number of pixels than are on the Paperwhite display, Which is also very good. The takeaway is this: text on Voyage is dark, crisp and easily readable. The display is glare-free.

Moreover, at 0.3-inches, Voyage is Amazon’s thinnest Kindle to date, still a ways to go before it as thin as paper, of course, but edging a bit closer. It weighs 6.3 ounces-(6.6-ounces for the Wi-Fi + 3G model), making it about an ounce lighter than Paperwhite. You can comfortably hold it with one hand.

As on other models, you can tap or swipe on the touchscreen to turn pages. But now you can also gently apply pressure against the bezel on either side of the display to turn a page and as it does you detect subtle haptic feedback. You can adjust the level of That haptic response and also the amount of pressure required to turn a page. It’s nice to have this added option but it does take getting used to and I just as often changed pages the old way.

One excellent new benefit comes with an adaptive front light That automatically box alters the brightness on the display to fit the environment in Which you are reading. If you’re in the dark, you can enable a feature That will gradually reduce the screen brightness over time, that match the way your eyes works.

In most other ways, the new Kindle is like its lower -priced siblings. The battery can last weeks. It can hold thousands of books. You can shop an online bookstore with Kindle millions of titles, and fetch the books you choose to buy in a minute or less. You can borrow books from the library and lend others, albeit under restrictions. And you can take and share notes.

Among other nice features across the Kindle line is Vocabulary Builder, and lists of all the words you look up in the dictionary. Amazon will be adding a “Word Wise” That feature small appeal to young readers or people learning Angielski as a second language. In select books, simple short definitions of challenging words will Appear just above Those difficult words. For example, in tiny type just above the word “abnormal” is the simple explanation “not normal.”

Also in the coming soon category is a family library feature That will let you access your Kindle books from your spouse’s Amazon account.

If money is no object, the Kindle Voyage is a great way to devour a bestseller. But if you’re operating under tight financial constraints and the lower priced Kindle can still result in a happy ending.

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The bottom line

Amazon Kindle Voyage

www.amazon.com, $ 199 for the Wi-Fi only model; $ 269 for the Wi-Fi + 3G model. Add $ 20 for ad-free versions.

Pro. Thin, light, high-resolution display with sharp readable text. Adaptive light, excellent battery life, multiple page turning methods.

Con. big premium over other Kindle models. Currently out of stock.

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Amazon Kindle Voyage – PC Magazine

     

Amazon’s various Kindles have long been the most popular ebook readers on the market, but that does not mean they have always been the best from a technology perspective. Barnes & amp; Noble beat Amazon to the punch with a front light, and Kobo eclipsed the company in screen resolution. The Kindle Voyage changes that. Amazon’s latest ebook reader is not only the best one it has ever made, it’s the best ebook reader currently available. It has a lovely, thin design with an incredibly sharp display and a useful adaptive front light, not to mention Amazon’s excellent ebook store. That said, I’m still not sure this is enough to warrant the $ 199 price tag when you can pick up our Editors’ Choice, the Kindle Paperwhite, for nearly half That amount.

 

Design and Display
At a glance, the Voyage does not look all that different from the Paperwhite or the newly refreshed touch-screen Kindle , in the sense That all three share the same general size and form factor. Look closer, though, and lots of important changes emerge. The Voyage Measures 6.4 by 4.5 by 0.30 inches (HWD) and weighs 6.3 ounces (or 6.6 ounces for the 3G model), making it the thinnest, Lightest Kindle there is. There’s less bezel all around, and the screen has been changed from a plastic glass, making the front of the reader completely flush, rather than slightly dipped like on the other models.

 
 

The display uses scratch-resistant glass, and has been micro-etched a diffuse light, so you can read outside without any glare. The etching pattern supposedly makes the glass feel more like paper, but I think you get a better sense of this using the Kindle Paperwhite Kindle or base.

 

The Voyage uses a brand-new Paperwhite display, Which has a much higher resolution than any other Kindle; it features 300 pixels per inch, Which looks absolutely fantastic. Text is incredibly sharp, no matter the font size, and images look great, so comics really pop (though keep in mind you’re still working with a black-and-white E Ink screen). For comparison, the Kobo Aura H2O and Aura HD feature 265 pixels per inch . They all look nearly as good when held side by side, but when you get super-close, everything on the Voyage remains uniformly crisp, while the Auras can show just the Slightest hint of pixelation. The Voyage is the closest you can get to reading an actual book.

 
 

In Addition to the higher resolution, the Voyage is noticeably brighter than the Paperwhite (up to 39 percent), thanks to a new front light. Better yet, the light is adaptive, so if you select the Auto Brightness setting, it will adjust automatically box based on the light around you. I love this feature. I’ve been using the first-generation Paperwhite since it came out, and I mostly tend to read on the subway and in coffee shops, Which have vastly different lighting scenarios. I rarely adjust the lighting on my Paperwhite to compensate for this, and I did not realize what a difference it makes until I started using the Voyage. No matter where you use it, the lighting is pretty much perfect.

 

Another cool feature Is That Amazon Claims the brightness is tuned it match the way the eye responds that darkness. So if you’re reading in the dark, you’ll need a brighter light at first than you will after reading for 30 minutes, so the light will slowly turn down over time. I’m slightly Concerned That constantly using a light sensor will impact battery life, but then again, you might ultimately wind up using less lighting.

 

Aside from the glass front panel, the Voyage is made of solid magnesium, with a soft-touch finish reminiscent of the Paperwhite, Which gives it a premium, classy feel (though it is not waterproof like the Kobo Aura H2O) . The power port is still on the bottom, but I’m not too fond of the Decision to move the Power button to the back of the reader. It’s hard to find, and it renders any isnt Likely case you were hoping that reuse incompatible.

 
 

If you’re a real diehard Kindle, and have not upgraded to a touch-screen model for the lack of physical buttons Page, rejoice. The Voyage features PagePress, Which is basically Amazon’s fancy name for Page buttons on either side of the display. I’ll focus on this feature more in the Reading section on the next page.

 

Features
The Voyage comes with a black USB cable, but no AC adapter. Amazon Claims up to six weeks of battery life based on half an hour of reading per day with wireless off and the light set is 10 That’s two weeks more than the Kindle and two weeks less than the Paperwhite, all of Which have plenty of time for the average reader.

 

The Voyage hooks into 802.11b / g / n networks, and a 3G cellular option is still available for an additional $ 70 extra. It comes with 4GB of storage-the same as the other two Kindles now-which should be good for over 2,000 books. Amazon also stores your purchases in the cloud, so you can retrieve content whenever you’d like, and view it on other devices. Unfortunately, even on the high-end Voyage there’s no memory card slot, so there’s no way to expand storage. It also makes it a bit more challenging this Sideload additional files.

 

For file support, the Voyage can handle Amazon’s own Kindle format (AZW and AZW3), along with DOC, DOCX, HTML, MOBI, PDF, and TXT files. There’s still no support for ePub files, Which could make it difficult to borrow books from public libraries (though Prime users can borrow Certain books for free from Amazon.)

 

Amazon Kindle Voyage, and High-End E-Reader That Beats hardcovers – New York Times (blog)

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The Voyage, Which has a display That is on par with the high-resolution displays now found on most of our other mobile devices, is Amazon’s thinnest Kindle. Credit

Amazon’s Kindle is a tech-industry miracle. That sounds over-the-top; it’s not.

In 2007, when the company first unveiled its e-reader, the device was an expensive ugly duckling Whose future looked marginal at best . The first Kindle, Which sold for $ 400 and was made by a company That had no track record in hardware, had a lot to overcome: the reluctance of the book industry to change its business model, the sentimentality of readers for the printed book, and its egregious industrial design, which looked like the product of the Soviet space program.

Worst of all, the Kindle was a dedicated machine. Its only purpose was to let you read books that you ‘purchased from Amazon’s online store. In the age of smartphones and apps, when a single phone does just about everything, most dedicated devices have had a rough ride. Sales of snapshot cameras and digital have crashed because Their functions were eaten by phones.

But not the Kindle. Amazon’s e-reader has not Merely survived, but thrived, thanks to a single-minded focus on the needs of obsessive readers. Each year the Amazon slightly improved the Kindle’s prices, hardware and software, making it more competitive with print, and roiling the publishing industry in the process.

Now, with its newest Kindle, the Voyage, Amazon is refining its e-reader once more. The Voyage’s main trick is a high-resolution display That mimics the look of a printed page. Text on its screen Appears at a resolution of 300 pixels an inch, Which is on par with the high-resolution displays now found on most of our other mobile devices.

Compared with previous Kindles, text on the Kindle Voyage Appears both sharper and in starker relief against the background. Graphics, like charts and graphs, look just as clear as they do in any black-and-white book.

The effect is beguiling. If you look at the new Kindle for any stretch of time, you do not just forget that you ‘re reading an e-book; you forget that you ‘re using any kind of electronic device at all.

Amazon says the Voyage offers a better approximation of print than has ever been available on an e-reader, but for me, it’s far better than that. It offers the visual clarity of printed text with the flexibility of an electronic device.

Given That combination, the Voyage functions as something like the executioner of The trusty old hardcover. Until recently, there were only two remaining reasons to hang on this books – either you just could not get on board with the way and looked Kindle page, or you were suspicious of Amazon’s power and larger motives in the publishing industry, and you saw the printed book as the only bulwark against its overreach.

The first reason is now gone. The Voyage, Which at $ 199 and up is Amazon’s most expensive Kindle, does not look just like the printed page. Like other Kindles, it does things the printed page can not do.

Reading a long tome (say the “Game of Thrones” series) and you want to keep track of the characters? X-Ray, a feature built into most Kindle books, shows you a handy pop-up guide of every person you encounter. Need to look up a word? Just tap on it. Want to flip back and forth between footnotes and the main text? It’s just a matter of tapping; reading David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest” on a Kindle is not the workout it is in print.

The Voyage is Amazon’s thinnest Kindle, but That advantage I found to be of little significance; Amazon’s other recent Kindles have also been very thin.

The Voyage also includes a new way to turn pages built into the plastic border of the device, right under where you’d rest your thumbs while holding it. This turn, you slightly pinch with either thumb; on other Kindles, you had to lift your finger and tap the screen. (You can also turn that way on the Voyage.) I found this method to be also only slightly helpful, because turning pages on other Kindles really was not much of a hassle to begin with.

So the only real reason to chose the Voyage over the other Kindles – the Paperwhite, Which goes for $ 119, and the entry-level reader, Which is $ 69 but does not have a light – is its high-contrast display. For me, the Voyage’s display justifies the price. If you read often, you’ll want a high-quality screen, and this is one you’ll appreciate every single time you read.

Amazon Kindle Fire HD 6 Gets Torn Apart And Receives 10.8 Repairability Score – Android Headlines – Android News

Amazon Announced Their Kindle Fire HD 6 and Kindle Fire HD 7 tablets back in September while they started shipping them in early October. These are extremely cheap Android 4.4 tablets KitKat with Amazon’s Fire OS on top of them. This basically Means That These devices are heavily skinned and you would not be able to tell they’re Android tablets just by looking at the UI, if you did not know what they’re all about of course. Kindle Fire HD 6 is now priced at $ 99 at Amazon, Which is of course really affordable. Anyhow, let’s check out its specs.

The Kindle Fire HD 6 comes sporting a 6-inch 1280 x 800 IPS LCD display, Which is kind of odd considering some phones (phablets) ship with screens over 6- inches are not Considered tablets while this thing is. The tablet also comes with 1GB of RAM and either 8 or 16GB of non-expandable internal storage. The Kindle Fire HD 6 features a 2-megapixel main camera Which is located at the back of the device, there’s also a front-facing VGA shooter included in the package. The device is powered by a quad-core processor MediaTek and it has a 3400mAh battery on the inside. The device Measures 169 x 103 x 10.7mm while it weighs 290 grams. As you can see, this tablet is not exactly designed to steal the spotlight, but it does the trick.

DECIDED iFixit to tear this tablet apart and show us every little piece That hides inside of it. If you want to check out That just take a look at the gallery below where you can find a ton of images, courtesy of iFixit. Nothing is left undisclosed, so if you think of getting one of these guys you probably want to know what hides inside of them, just to let you know, iFixit gave this thing an 8 out of 10 repairability score. Now that the got that out of the way, let me hear from you. Did you ever own a Kindle Fire tablet, if yes, how did you like it? Do you intend to buy a Kindle Fire HD 6 or Kindle Fire HD 7 tablets or are you bothered with the Amazon implements skin on top of Android?

Kristijan Lucic Staff Writer

I’ve always been interested in technology but when I got my first Android phone years ago I was hooked. Mobile technology has been my first priority ever since. I’m currently using a Nexus 4 and 7 (2012), I guess you can say I’m an Android purist. Other than technology I also enjoy football, movies and tv shows along with socializing with my friends and family.

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Amazon’s Kindle Fire Will Include One of the Best Features of Apple’s iOS 8 – The Motley Fool

 
 
 
 
 
 

Last month, Amazon ( NASDAQ: AMZN ) Announced several new models of its Kindle Fire tablet, Including the $ 99 6-inch Kindle Fire HD and an updated version of its full-size, the Kindle Fire HDX. Both tablets ship with the latest version of Amazon’s operating system: Fire OS 4, “Sangria.”

 

Sangria adds several new features that Amazon’s tablets, Including, most notably, “Family Library” – families with multiple Kindle devices will be able share some of Their digital purchases among themselves. Though small it seem like a small change, it was a Necessary they – the latest version of Apple ‘s ( NASDAQ: AAPL ) mobile operating system iOS 8, offers similar functionality.

 

Amazon challenges Apple
Back in June, at its Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple Introduced Family Sharing – a new feature included in iOS 8 At the time, I noted Sharing Family That Appeared to be a direct challenge to Amazon’s digital goods business, particularly its digital books business – the ability to share digital purchases with family members stood out as a key advantage: Buyers – who have otherwise chosen small and Kindle digital book from Amazon – it could be enticed buy an iBook from Apple instead.

 

But Amazon has quickly fired back, neutralizing whatever small advantage Apple have had. With Family Library, Amazon customers will be able to share digital Their purchases across as many as six linked accounts.

 

Family Library should help Amazon Maintain its dominant market position in digital books. Apple has emerged as a Competent rival, but Amazon still leads, with an estimated market share of around 60%.

 

Library Family vs. Family Sharing
Nevertheless, Amazon’s Family Library is not perfect, and Apple’s Family Sharing has a few advantages With over Amazon’s alternative when it comes to other forms of media. Amazon’s Family Library works with digital books, audio books, apps, and Prime Instant Video, but it will not work for purchased movies, TV shows, or songs. Apple’s Family Sharing, in contrast, offers All These things and more, Including the ability to see family members’ current geographic locations.

 

That said, Apple’s Family Sharing requires all members of a given family to use the Apple-made products, and Relatively high entry barrier is. Amazon’s Family Library, in contrast, is far more flexible: Amazon would probably prefer its customers own its Kindle Fires, but if they do not, it’s not an issue, as Amazon’s Family Sharing feature is slated to arrive on Amazon’s mobile apps, Including its Kindle app for Apple’s iOS, later this month.

 

Two different goals
In an interview with Charlie Rose last month, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook downplayed his company’s rivalry with Amazon, instead citing Google as Apple’s chief competition. Amazon apr not be Apple’s primary competitor, but when it comes to digital goods, they certainly compete for sales – Family Sharing and Family Library serving as the latest example.

 

At the same time, the two systems highlight the relative differences between the firms: Whereas Apple is trying to entice customers that buy its gadgets, Amazon is looking to cultivate additional sales of its digital goods.

 

The prospect of shared iTunes app and media purchases, as well as geographic location and parental controls, could keep entire families loyal to Apple’s product line, choosing Apple-made mobile devices over alternatives. Amazon apr have been caught in the crossfire, losing digital book sales to Apple in the event That families looked to take advantage of this new feature, but Family Library could the ensure that does not happen.

 

Family Library is not a perfect retort – the lack of music sharing will not help Amazon capture any iTunes loyal customers – but seems more than good enough to keep Amazon’s Kindle isnt loyal customers.

 
 

   

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Amazon Shows Off All-New Kindle: Price, Specification Details – International Business Times, India Edition

Amazon has finally unveiled Their next low cost book reader Kindle in its range, the Amazon All-New Kindle.

Amazon All-New Kindle EBook Reader Amazon Inc.

The new Kindle will boast several new features apart from its low cost to impress the buyers. It includes Kindle FreeTime, Vocabulary Builder, Ready-to-use, Whispersync, Smart Lookup with better archiving capability and extended battery life.

For by encouraging kids to read more, the Kindle has added a feature called FreeTime, Which This will allow parents select the books and hands out a progress report on the total time spent, number of words looked up and books finished. It Encourage the kids, this feature also Provides badges.

It also adds a Vocabulary Builder, Which fetches the words Directly from the dictionary and later Expands the reader’s knowledge.

The All- New kindle saves and synchronizes last read, bookmarks and annotation across devices and Kindle apps and tweaks Integrates a full dictionary definition with other reference information via X-ray and Wikipedia.

The All-New Kindle will be available for ₹ 5,999 with faster processing, bigger storage and a touchscreen interface.

The device will be made available at Amazon’s retail website and 320 retail stores across India, Including Croma, Reliance Digital, Ezone and Vijay Sales stores across India .

Amazon Claims That it will release new features of Word Wise and Enhanced search as part of a free, over-the-air software update and will also be available on Kindle Paperwhite.

Technical Details

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Display	6-inch display with Carta e-paper technology, 167 ppi, optimized font technology, 16-level gray scale
Size	6.7 x 4.7 x 0.40 (169 x 119 x 10.2 mm)
Weight	191 Grams
Storage	4GB internal Including Free cloud storage for all Amazon content
Supported Formats	Kindle Format 8 (AZW3), Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively; HTML, DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP through conversion
Warranty and Service	One year International Warranty.

“Not enough books” claim Kindle Unlimited subscribers – BBC News

      10 October 2014
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              By Natalie Donovan You and Yours

    Amazon says all the Harry Potter books, The Hunger Games and other award winners are available
   

 
                       

Two of the UK’s biggest publishers are withholding books from Amazon’s new subscription service.

         

“Kindle Unlimited” costs £ 7.99 per month, but readers will not get dry books as The Lord of the Rings, Agatha Christies, or Gillian Flynn’s bestseller “Gone Girl”.

         

Amazon says more than 700,000 books are accessible through the service.

         

Penguin Random House and HarperCollins told Radio 4′s You & amp; Yours Their books will not be available.

         

Described as a “Netflix for e-books”, the set fee Allows Unlimited Kindle users is access 10 books at a time.

         

Amazon hosts over three million books, newspapers and magazines – but less than a quarter can be downloaded using the service.

         

Publishers already have Agreements in place with Amazon Which limit the degree that Which the company can discount Their titles.

         

Avid reader Maxine Alexander from Morecambe said: “Kindle Unlimited gives the impression you can have whatever you want for £ 7.99 a month.

         

“But when I looked for various well known authors like Peter James and Agatha Christie, they did not have any.

         

“Morecambe Library has more stuff that I would want to read.”

         

Kindle Unlimited was launched in the UK in September, after widespread speculation.

         

Liz Thomson the editor of Book Brunch, a publishing trade magazine explained: “The big publishers like HarperCollins Which hold the Agatha Christie and JRR Tolkien estates are not included.

         

“It’s because they have signed up to an agency model, whereby the publishers set the price of books, limiting the amount Amazon can discount.”

         

HarperCollins and Penguin have also launched Their Own both direct-to-consumer websites.

         

Amazon said: “There are many publishers Participating in the program and the expect it add more over time.

         

“We already know our US customers love the opportunity to discover new authors and genres, and That is what the Kindle Unlimited now offers to our customers in the UK.”