The tap zones on Kindle Touch have been rearranged — there’s a small top area for the menu, a small area for previous page on the left, and next page fills most of the screen. It uses an IR touch display.
The 3G model is $US149 and will have free, unlimited wireless. The no-ads of the 3G unit is $US189.
Kindle Touch will be up for pre-order today and ships on November 21.
Update: The Kindle Touch is a beautiful piece of tablet. Thin, grip-able, and fine looking. The matte front is a great compliment to the e-ink display, and the absence of buttons is wonderfully minimal. But, most importantly, the Touch’s touch works just swell. Keyboards inputs and taps were very responsive — very impressive for an IR display, which usually pales in comparison to a capacitive screen like the iPad’s.
Aside from being able to use your fingertips, X-Ray, activated with a tap, should be the Touch’s coolest new feature. The ability to get supplementary Wikipedia info on battles, politicians, places, world events — the most important terms on every page of any book — will be enormously helpful. X-Ray’s like having endnotes for every book you’ll ever read, and it’s downloaded automatically alongside.
Update 2: Here’s a lil’ bit of video of the Kindle Touch, specifically highlighting the X-Ray feature. Very slick indeed.
Cameron
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antghomy
Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 11:00 AMWant, want, want!!!
Tim
Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 9:14 AMAww no colour? :(
Tim
Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 9:17 AMAny word on enhanced PDF support?
lambomann007
Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 1:44 PMHopefully Big W will start selling these soon :)
jwe
Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 3:46 PMAny news of the Aussie release date for the Fire? will they make a 3G option?
Steve
Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 8:08 PMNot happening, at least until they cut through all the content licensing issues that plague Amazon Appstore, Prime and Instant Video. The local distributors like Bigpond, Foxtel etc will fight tooth and nail to hold onto their exclusive distribution rights.
Ftruck
Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 5:53 PMthis would of been perfect if it had physical page turn buttons like the nook touch..do you really want to be getting your fingers all up in the screens kool-aid every page turn.
Moosh
Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 10:46 PMMeh, can only pre-order if you’re in the US. Boo!
Karen
Sunday, October 2, 2011 at 4:46 PMany idea if and when the new touch 3G will be available to purchase in australia (and how)?????
CR
Saturday, October 29, 2011 at 3:26 PMSo over the Australian cuntent providers making our lives difficult. No I don’t want to pay extra to live in Australia so you can get more profits. The sooner these bastards go out of business to online purchasing of US content the better.
Heres where to buy one in the US and have it shipped out to Australia…http://www.braziliapilot.com/servlet/StoreFront