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Old 10-04-2013, 09:16 AM   #1
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Naming the baby
Shall we have a new tag for the Kpw-Gen2 device (K6) ?

Pro:
It is a different processor (i.MX6) than the existing K5 devices (i.MX508).
It uses a much newer kernel (series 3.0 rather than 2.6) with a much newer toolchain and C library (see the Amazon source release bundle).

Con:
It breaks with our tradition of using the major version number of the firmware series (all three devices run series 5.x firmware).

Comments in this thread please.
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Old 10-04-2013, 09:59 AM   #2
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I guess PW2 or K6
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FWIW, I went with pw2 for now in KindleTool. Also, the Fire runs/used to run a FW version 6.something, so K6 was a bit ambiguous on that front too.
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Old 10-04-2013, 10:42 AM   #4
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FWIW, went with pw2 for now in KindleTool. Also, the Fire runs/used to run a FW version 6.something, so K6 was a bit ambiguous on that front too.
Right.
So we ask for a prefix: PW2 for our topic index filter then?
(With additional PW2 page in the master index system.)

I am sure we will end up with pw2 specific topics here, what with hardware and system's differences.
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Old 10-04-2013, 12:24 PM   #7
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I personally like K6, but since we broke it with paperwhite, pw2 seems good...
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PW2. Or actually "K5-PW2". Then we could also ask to have "K5-PW" (or "K5-PW1") and "K5-Touch" (or "K5-T") as labels for those particular devices.

K6 would be a horrible choice IMO, because the device is *not* a K6 in any way. We regularly have that confusion when people speak of "K4 Touch" or "K5 non-touch". And it usually takes at least a couple of posts to even find out which device people are really talking about.

Using the FW major version as labels - possibly with finer-grained "specialization" - is the only sensible option IMO.
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Naming new PW as PW2 is a bit rash. Amazon can present new model in next year as "Kindle Paperwhite 2".

Maybe, PW2013 or, informally, PW13. Or by platform/board codename: PWario/PWinot.
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PW2. Or actually "K5-PW2". Then we could also ask to have "K5-PW" (or "K5-PW1") and "K5-Touch" (or "K5-T") as labels for those particular devices.

K6 would be a horrible choice IMO, because the device is *not* a K6 in any way. We regularly have that confusion when people speak of "K4 Touch" or "K5 non-touch". And it usually takes at least a couple of posts to even find out which device people are really talking about.

Using the FW major version as labels - possibly with finer-grained "specialization" - is the only sensible option IMO.
Well made argument.

K5-PW1, K5-PW2, K5-Touch
Would be a good, over-all, improvement.

I hate to think of the prefix renaming chore that would present, but then I am not a moderator.
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Well made argument.

K5-PW1, K5-PW2, K5-Touch
Would be a good, over-all, improvement.

I hate to think of the prefix renaming chore that would present, but then I am not a moderator.
It will be difficult to split former K5 label into K5-Touch and K5-PW1. Most posts with this label concern both devices.
Also these two are so similar that we need a single prefix for them.
Should K5 label stay as a synonym of KT and PW1?
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There wouldn't be any real need to split the "K5" prefix - it would simply stay there, meaning "any device with FW 5.x". That would also drastically reduce the need to re-label threads. If one finds that some thread really only concerns a particular device, such re-labeling could be done when that is noticed.

I do agree with eureka though. Amazon has a terrible policy for naming their devices, so it could well be that they decide to launch a "PW2" in the future. I think they currently call them the "new" and "previous" PW

So shall we go for PW2012 and PW2013 or so? The only concern I have is that tags might get overly long and complicated at some point in time... Dunno.
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Amazon US, on the source code page, is calling them Paperwhite Generation 1 and Paperwhite Generation 2
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