Thread: New top of the line Kindle on its' way next week
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Old 04-09-2016, 10:26 AM   #28
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Originally Posted by NiLuJe View Post
FWIW, we've known something was coming since the release of FW 5.7.3.1.

Signs point to a new Basic model (codename Woody), and... something weirder in terms of hardware gimmicks (pageturn? buttons, accelerometers (plural?), no haptic feedback, and something weird which I can't remember right now. codename Whisky), which looks like an hybrid between a PW and a Voyage... But at the same time appears to be supported by the PW3 FW, so, we'll see...
Both would run on a new storage solution at the HW level. And a new mainboard (codename Duet), so, possibly an updated CPU?

So, it'll be a Kindle 1 - all over again!
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