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Looking forward to seeing what he announces.
My personal feeling is that he's not going to go for a revolutionary change either in form or function, but more of an evolution, based on what they've learned over the last year.
So Here's what I figure
* Faster Page Turns , if they are using the new controller. Maybe a better implementation the Sony as they've had a few months more to work on it.
* Slight Modification of the body, fixing some of the more annoying ergonomic problems people complained about, but sticking to the same basic form factor.
* A New version of the OS, which will also be offered for the original kindle as an update.
* Replace the Wireless CDMA chip with a dual GSM / CDMA one, so that while they can still continue to use Sprint in the US, they can use the same hardware to launch international, later in the year.
* Support for Non Latin languages and Multiple dictionaries.
Things which May happen but which I think have a low probability are
* Full support for Protected Mobipocket. They have little to lse with this IMHO as their prices and seemless experience will keep the majority of people buying from them, while pleasing those early adoptord who already have a substantial Mobi library, or need or want books which are not available from the Amazon store (Foreign Language, etc)
* Support for PDF / ePUB which would help get more people onboard. (Not sure about protected, but at least unprotected)
* Open the Kindle store, allowing people without Kindles to buy books from them. (Very low chances, but I'm hopefull.)
* Kindle App for the iPhone, allowing you to read your purchases on an iPhone or iPod Touch, as long as you have a kindle.
So thoughts ?
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