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Old 11-08-2013, 07:32 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by dsmid View Post
This numbering scheme is also very common here in the Czech Rep but I believe it is wrong.
It was presented by media not by Amazon. Is there any official definition of "generation" ? I doubt it. I believe Wikipedia is also wrong.
Even if you use the release dates and use K4 for KNT-grey, K5 for KNT-black, where is Kindle Touch ? What generation is it ? 4.5 ? It cannot be 4 nor 5, because KT and KNT are very different devices, in fact KT is much more similar to PW (6th gen!) than to KNT. OTOH KNT-grey and KNT-black are almost identical, why should they belong to different generations ?
This scheme is a complete mess, it's like classifying cat and rabbit among the same species just because they are both fury.

Amazon doesn't use any numbers at all, with one important exception: the major version number of firmware.

The firmware major number is 2 for Kindle 2 and DX, 3 for Kindle Keyboard, 4 for all the non-touch keyboard-less Kindles, regardless their colour, 5 for all the touch models: Kindle Touch, PW and PW2.
haha ok then I understand quite messy indeed.

Well thanks all anyway, but I guess ill just have to buy a new one in japan instead
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