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Originally Posted by jswinden
Nothing earth shattering. A snail that is 30% faster is still a freaking slow as heck snail! Flexible screens might be cool, but they won't improve the resolution or quality of what is quickly becoming a very low resolution screen compared to other screen technologies.
Without any true competition, don't expect much innovation from Amazon. They have no reason to innovate when they have no direct competitor. They could can simply use marketing speak and make a very slight improvement sound big, and many will flock to buy it. Ooooooooo! They changed the logo--gotta have, gotta have!  |
I skipped the KPW2, as my KPW1's screen was already 95% perfect (it has some small shadows on the very bottom of the screen which doesn't bother me, as I only see them in complete darkness, using very low light levels).
The firmware improvements of the KPW2 have been backported, so the only real improvement of the KPW2 is the 25% faster CPU. That doesn't cut it for me.
To be honest, there isn't much more I'd want in an e-reader that doesn't improve the reading experience directly. If Amazon would either...
- Keep the KPW3 exactly as it is now, except at 6.8 or even 7 inch (in 4:3 format) using a resolution that ups the screen to 300 dpi
- Build Kobo-like customizations of fonts and margins and such into the reader
... then I would seriously consider it.
If the only improvement is "We improved the front-light another 5%, made the CPU 20% faster and added some stuff to the Goodreads part", I'll skip this one as well.