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Originally Posted by l_macd
The Kindle 4 (basic Kindle, non-touch screen), Kindle 5 (Kindle Touch) is a bit confusing because there were two different models released at the same time and then there are actually two versions of the basic non-touch Kindle. The first was silver (K4S) and the second black one (K4B) was released at the same time as the Kindle Paperwhite. It's important to differentiate between them as the quality of the screen is better on the newer K4B than it is on the K4S, although they both run the same firmware.
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Originally Posted by knc1
For awhile (one or two firmware releases) the two devices used different firmware, but Amazon merged those so that the two devices used the same firmware by the time they stopped building for the K4.
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damn damn damn
I'm not liking what I think I'm hearing. If I understand correctly, the K4B is different from the K4S in more than the color of the bezel, but Amazon wrote code so that the appropriate part of the firmware would run on either or devices I was given a K4B with a broken screen, but neither of the two vendors that sell replacement screens distinguish between them. What are the chances that a screen for one would work on the other?
knc1, isn't the bottom of the line still a K4?
Thanks,
Andy