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Originally Posted by warlock07
How do you decide for Amazon?
There are many examples to the contrary.
Of course you would never be disappointed if you are an eternal pessimist.
Update: Just reviewed kindle dxg on Amazon. Gave them a single star  |
i don't decide anything, I am simply making an observation: DX, no matter whether it is white or grey, is a second generation Kindle which runs the 2.x firmware series, just like K2. Its hardware cannot run the 3.x firmware. there is no way around this (well, except relabeling a 2.x firmware as "3.x for Kindle 2", which would be cheating and doesn't solve anything).
Some of the features from 3.1 may well be backported to 2.x and thus the K2, DX, DXG series, but efforts put into obsolete and niche product software are always going to be smaller than the investments into the flagship, which is the Kindle 3G + WiFi, the K3. Also the hardware capabilities of the second generation platform are simply lower, as others gave mentioned.
Don't get me wrong, I think it'd be great if Amazon would wave it's magic wand and make these problems go away... But that's not going to happen.
I would expect that in six months or so we'll see the fourth generation of the Kindle platform and both 6 and 10 inch versions based on it, and it will be really interesting to see whether they attach an eInk Pearl to it, or if they have found something new, and what. *That* DX will be bang up to date.. But it still won't be the flagship product.