MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Will older Kindles have some of the new features?

tomsem · 09-07-2012, 03:05 PM

The KPW (Kindle Paperwhite) seems to have a more polished UI, but otherwise has feature parity with KT. I think there might be some things added, like displaying cover images on Home screen. I'd like to see those back-ported to KT.

I don't know why Kindles would need to be updated to support Audible sync. Seems like it is the other way around: Audible app needs to sync its reading postion to your account, then Kindle or Kindle app will sync to that reading position to match. Only Kindle HD's have the tighter integration with highlighting 'animation'.

Unless they are planning to update the Audible player on Kindle itself to sync as well (does anybody use that?). There is a rumor that KK is getting a 3.4 update for something associated with Audible sync, but nothing official AFAIK. It would be nice if they added KF8 support too...

09-07-2012, 03:05 PM	#4
tomsem Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,965 Karma: 27060153 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	The KPW (Kindle Paperwhite) seems to have a more polished UI, but otherwise has feature parity with KT. I think there might be some things added, like displaying cover images on Home screen. I'd like to see those back-ported to KT. I don't know why Kindles would need to be updated to support Audible sync. Seems like it is the other way around: Audible app needs to sync its reading postion to your account, then Kindle or Kindle app will sync to that reading position to match. Only Kindle HD's have the tighter integration with highlighting 'animation'. Unless they are planning to update the Audible player on Kindle itself to sync as well (does anybody use that?). There is a rumor that KK is getting a 3.4 update for something associated with Audible sync, but nothing official AFAIK. It would be nice if they added KF8 support too...