After years of manufacturing black-and-white e-ink readers, Amazon simply released a colour Kindle, the Kindle Colorsoft. It shares all its options with the common Kindle, together with the identical distinction, page-turning pace, auto-adjusting entrance gentle, and weeks-long battery life. The one new growth is the addition of colour. The Colorsoft is now out there to order for $279.
Trying on the photographs shared by the e-commerce big, I discover the colours on the brand new Kindle look very delicate and muted (in one of the best ways potential). They don’t bounce at you or come off as overly vibrant. I’m positive that is a part of the corporate’s efforts to maintain the general expertise of utilizing a Kindle simple in your eyes.
Your books will nonetheless seem of their commonplace black font on white paper, so what’s the colour for? The colour will seem in three locations: e-book covers in your Kindle Library or the Retailer, the photographs in your books, and new colour highlights you’ll be able to add to your books and simply search for later.
Amazon says, “All the pieces about Kindle Colorsoft was meticulously designed to ship wealthy, paper-like colour.” It makes use of an oxide backplane with customized waveforms for quick efficiency and encompasses a new gentle information with nitride LEDs. These LEDs work along with sure algorithms to ship wealthy colour and brightness. In accordance with the claims, you’ll be able to zoom into photographs with out worrying about pixelation.
The brand new Kindle Colorsoft has an eight-week battery life, wi-fi charging, and waterproofness, so you’ll be able to simply take it within the bathe or to the seaside.
Amazon gave its Kindle lineup an enormous revamp with three extra adjustments: a brand new Kindle Scribe providing a Kindle and a pocket book in a single gadget, the quickest Paperwhite Kindle but, and a brand new entry-level Kindle.
The Kindle Scribe comes with a Premium Pen for note-taking. The Pen has been designed to supply a pencil-like expertise with the identical heft, stability, and eraser tip. The Scribe’s 300ppi delivers a crisp canvas for jotting down ideas, making notes on prime of e-book pages, summarizing texts into bullet factors, and so forth.
Amazon’s best-selling Kindle, the Paperwhite, has additionally acquired some updates. It’s been given 25% quicker web page turns, which advantages the Kindle Library or the Retailer with a extra responsive expertise. It’s additionally been bumped as much as seven inches however remains to be the slimmest Kindle in the marketplace, with as much as a formidable three-month battery life.
A new entry-level Kindle has additionally joined the lineup in a beautiful Matcha colour that I’m very tempted to get my fingers on. Just like the Boox Palma, this one can simply match within the palm of your hand or slide in your again pocket. It lasts weeks on a single cost and options 16GB storage in your books.
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