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Old 10-08-2012, 04:46 PM   #43
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Originally Posted by jswinden View Post
Sorry, we just make these acronyms up and some of them become the standard on the forum. This is a list of them:
  • K1, first gen Kindle
  • K2, 2nd gen
  • K3 or KK, 3rd gen Kindle with Keyboard
  • K4 or K4S or K4B, 4th gen, K4S is silver and was sold 2011-2012, K4B is black and is currently being sold
  • K5 or KT, 4th gen, Kindle Touch
  • KPW or PW, 5th gen, Kindle Paperwhite
  • K6 or KF, 1st gen Kindle Fire

The K + # scheme is used quite often by the dev types because it refers to the firmware number associated with the particular model. Two Kindles use FW 4.x.x (K4S and K4B) and now two use 5.x.x (Touch and Paperwhite). I've got no idea what FW is on the newer Fire models.

By the way, we use our made up acronyms because Amazon used to like to call the current Kindle simply "Kindle" and after the first generation that became confusing, so we devised these acronyms to let each other know exactly which model we were talking about.
yeah, we are funny folks like that. we also are working on a textbook, and there will be a final test in june

Seriously, the K4, that existed in silver and is now in black (are you following?), can also be called K4NT for Non Touch.

Now Blossom there, who is our expert es-K4, will be very adamant you get the K4B and make sure you do not fall in the trap of getting the K4S, which was originally created by Moriarty and we all know how that ended...... The K4B is better.
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