According to this Amazon video, the Kindle DX can survive a 75cm drop with ease. Good, because apparently the old Kindle can’t survive some shaking in a padded sleeve, inside a laptop bag.
Amazon’s Kindle App for the iPhone was a definite clue, and now Jeff Bezos is just flat stating it: the Kindle doesn’t really matter—in the long term, ebooks are where the real money’s at.
Kindle DX (reviewed here) just started shipping Wednesday on Amazon and it’s already sold out. Either people really love that DX, or the Earth only produces enough resources to sustain manufacturing a few units at a time. [Amazon via Macworld]
In this five-step tutorial, RapidRepair shows you how to carefully disassemble—and reassemble—your Kindle DX to get a closer look at its innards.
Kindle DX is the true heir to the Kindle throne, but whether Amazon’s ebook kingdom is growing or shrinking depends on the next wave of books—textbooks. In the meantime, bigger screen, cool new tricks…
The $US489, 9.7-inch Amazon Kindle DX is shipping June 10. Amazon’s filling pre-orders first, so those people who got really excited early on get them before everyone else. [Amazon]
Also, that’s a Kindle DX she has in her hand, not a Kindle 2. Everyone else on the Heroes set needs to stand on apple boxes to hide the fact that she’s six-foot seven.
Pointing out the clunkiness of the Kindle’s text-to-speech feature is tired, but with the new Kindle DX being lauded as a newspaper savior, the NYT has a point: “Bay-rack Oh-bamma” won’t cut it.
I was an early believer in Kindle, but I thought it would evolve more quickly than this. Kindle DX is a step forward—more than the Kindle 2—but there’s still work to be done.
The Amazon Kindle DX is 26.4 x 18.3 x 1 cm. Bezos says it’s for reading newspapers, magazines, journals, and your own PDF documents more easily. But how does it stack against its deadtree counterparts?
