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Originally Posted by markdek
"Faster" is an upgrade on an eReader?..........hum, just what are you doing w/ that reader...lol
Tom's Hardware in fact indicates is may be a poorer screen. Argue w/ them.
Some people like keyboards...there are a lot of Blackberry, etc. phones out there w/ keyboards. It's nice to use the keyboard for shortcuts, like bookmarks, notes, etc. And the keyboard worked nicely w/ the soon to be gone free 3g internet browsering (for email, weather, maps, blogs, etc.).
Actually, I think all the Kindles are nice, and have their place...but me thinks I'll miss the Kindle 3 when it's discontinued (at the end of 2011?).
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Faster is an upgrade when you take into consideration searching and looking up dictionary definitions. The pop-up screen for the definitions comes up much quicker on the new Kindle than the previous.
Their are technical downgrades to this Kindle, but that doesn't mean it's an inferior product for the average user.
Take storage for example, the new Kindle has half the storage of the Kindle Keyboard. That sounds significant, but it's only a factor if you plan on loading up the Kindle with thousands of books, something which most users aren't going to do. I don't even have 50 books on my Kindle at the moment, so the extra storage on the Kindle Keyboard is a non-factor for me.
Less internal ram? OK, if you're a hacker and want to apply a bunch of different Kindle hacks then that would be an issue. Again, for the average user it isn't.
No keyboard? Like i've said previously, in a year of use I used the keyboard a handful of times -- I don't miss it. The smaller size of the Kindle is the selling point for me, this new Kindle fits nicely in my pocket, the Kindle Keyboard doesn't.
The other missing feature is audio. If you use the audio feature then it's a downgrade, if you don't then it's a moot point. Why have an audio feature you never plan to use? Like the keyboard, I never used audio. Many users are the same as myself. My entire family -- wife, brother, 2 sisters all have Kindles, and none of them use audio.
So in the end, calling someone "crazy" for switching their Kindle keyboard for a Kindle doesn't make sense when each individual user justifies their own purchases. For myself, the new Kindle is far better than the Kindle keyboard for the reasons i've outlined. I never used the extra features the Keyboard version has, and the extra size that it made the Kindle was a hindrance to me. Many users are in the same boat as myself and would consider the new Kindle an upgrade.
There's no right or wrong answer here, for some people the new Kindle is better, for others the Keyboard version is better.