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Originally Posted by Blossom
Think firmware version and you will always know the right name. Kindle Keyboard has v3 firmware so it's called a K3, The $69 Kindle has version 4 firmware so it's a K4. the Kindle Touch has version 5 so it's a K5. The paperwhite is the only Kindle that doesn't fit because it's firmware is 5.2  Even the original Kindle Fire is v6 so it can also be called the K6. We now have Kindles firmware up to version 10!
Here's a page that will help you remember. |
See, that's exactly why I don't think this naming system is any better than others. The new version of the $69 one shouldn't be named the same as the older model, and both the Touch and the PW are K5's. We still have to add little extra things in there (like PW or K4B) to tell which one we mean. I don't have any trouble figuring out which one people are talking about, no matter what they call it. But if Amazon had started out with a naming scheme of some sort, all of these different groups wouldn't have to come up with their own. That's all I was getting at.
