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Old 09-28-2011, 01:46 PM   #256
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Yeah, but that's the point, isn't it? This thing is a Front End for the Amazon Store.
More accurate to say that it's a front end for the Amazon cloud. If you saw the press conf, that was very definitely "the message".
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I shan't be buying one myself. None of these devices offers anything that I want over my existing K3.
Putting aside the Fire, I agree with you on this, having what is now a KK myself.

As soon as the Amazon page came up, I jumped on it and ordered a Fire & a Touch SO, mainly to get in line fast. But after a little reflection, I realized that as much as I would like a Touch, and think I would prefer it over the KK, the two devices are pretty close in size, and the Touch offers nothing more in comparison.

I'd make a straight swap, though.
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You are right about it being awkward, but I'm betting that movies can be sideloaded, and hoping that there will be a Dropbox app.
No DropBox; but they do have Box.net and SugarSync.
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I'd make a straight swap, though.
I wouldn't. I do a lot of annotation in my books, and the Touch has (shudder) a soft keyboard in alphabetical order. That's just horrible - who could type on that?
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I wouldn't. I do a lot of annotation in my books, and the Touch has (shudder) a soft keyboard in alphabetical order. That's just horrible - who could type on that?
its a really bad decision to not have a qwerty keyboard. i dont know how that got past the committee
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I wouldn't. I do a lot of annotation in my books, and the Touch has (shudder) a soft keyboard in alphabetical order. That's just horrible - who could type on that?
wha??? that has to be customizable, right?
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wha??? that has to be customizable, right?
Who knows? All I've seen is the picture:

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i dont know how that got past the committee
That's because I was in charge of that committee and I hate keyboards
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Isn't the cloud storage going to be a problem since wi-fi is slowish for downloads and not everyone has convenient access to open wifi (not all of us have wifi networks at home).
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I wouldn't. I do a lot of annotation in my books, and the Touch has (shudder) a soft keyboard in alphabetical order. That's just horrible - who could type on that?
Eh? I'm looking at screens and its a QWERTY. Check out the hands-on stuff.
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Eh? I'm looking at screens and its a QWERTY. Check out the hands-on stuff.
Thank goodness for that! Perhaps the alphabetical one is just on the non-Touch version in that case.

VERY happy to be wrong about that - thanks!
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Thank goodness for that! Perhaps the alphabetical one is just on the non-Touch version in that case.

VERY happy to be wrong about that - thanks!
Yeah; that pic was for the Button Kindle. It's for the old school texting crowd.
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Hmm, the home screen interface looks a little slicker on the Touch. Looks the same as the current one on the regular ...
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More accurate to say that it's a front end for the Amazon cloud. If you saw the press conf, that was very definitely "the message".
Well, obviously it's both, but the cloud is merely part of the sales pitch to get one of these into the customer's hands. At that point, what you are holding is the Amazon Instant Gratification and Purchasing Machine.

You have just walked in the front door of the Amazon Internet Store, where you will find it so so easy to one-touch purchase all kinds of digital and non-digital goodies.
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And $79 for the special offers version.
Wow!

That's really, really an aggressive and low price! Even the one without ads, just about 100 bucks is a really nice price!
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